Audiobook Addition
Dragon Queens by Kathleen de Plume is a sweet, hilarious and surprisingly hot fantasy romance about a princess, a bounty hunter, and a prophecy.
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Fifteen Years
xkcd.com/3172/
(There's a terrible sponsorship in the middle, but you can just skip it fairly easily)
(Am I justifying the absurd number of dodgy scenes in my almost-ready-to-publish novel? I’m saying I don’t have to! I enjoyed writing them, I’m open about there being far too many such scenes, and people can decide for themselves if they want to read that 🤣🤣🥰)
If anyone was vaguely following the Mushroom Murders in Victoria a couple of years ago, the verdict came out yesterday and How To Cook That did an *excellent* breakdown of the case:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_G6...
There was a lovely aurora australis tonight 🥰
What people say they want in a book and what they actually buy and read are often very different things.
I reckon we should primarily write to satisfy *ourselves* - and if other people enjoy it too that’s just a nice bonus.
Trying to write for someone else’s taste is a mug’s game.
Dead Cat Strategy only works when you can find a cat that stinks more than what you're trying to distract from.
Okay, I am officially a Thud Shark 🤣☺️
A post from Hank Green that I found on youtube just now (which is why it’s a screenshot rather than a repost):
