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It’s November, the time of NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo, and in years past I blogged daily during the month, but this November the idea of blogging even close to every day is so laughable, I might have peed myself a little just thinking about it. In other words, there’s no way I can pull off every
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Whenever I start to leave needlessly elaborate comments on other people’s blogs, that’s a signal I should probably write my own post. The exhausting semester proceeds apace, with the pace being one that gives whiplash. Sunday evening is a time of dread as I face the calendar of upcoming obligations. Last week, I had a
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This is officially the busiest semester I’ve ever had in my life. 😠Teaching overload; insane service; the two afternoons I am not completely swamped with the former two, I’m desperately trying to finish and submit some papers. I am not twenty or even thirty anymore, and my body no longer tolerates lack of sleep.
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Ladies and gentlemen! Without further ado, I present to you… *drumroll* …the cover of Academadness! Isn’t it awesome? Adrian Medina of Fabled Beast Design did a smashing job. (Adrian is also an accomplished horror writer and editor of Aphotic Realm magazine and press.) Basically, I told him I wanted a Goosebumps theme, but with academic details,
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GOOD NEWS! My novel got picked up by a small genre publisher. I’m very excited. The good news arrived during our family’s weeklong getaway to our home away from home, and this is the third year in a row that I’ve received good news while there (the previous two years involved grant money). So, the
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Over the past few months I’ve been thinking, on and off, about the concept of closure. How people crave it, how often they feel entitled to it, how the popular culture seems to indicate it is both necessary and probable, and how the reality is far from it. You send a grant to a funding
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So Barbenheimer, huh? I watched both movies with hubs a couple of weeks ago, and enjoyed them both. Some mild spoilers ahead. Barbie is visually stunning, very funny and very clever, and yes, quite feminist. The main Ken (the one played by Ryan Gosling, whose job is beach) is excellent as a dim yet eerily
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The sequel to Academaze is coming to your favorite online-shopping behemoth soon: Adrian Medina of Fabled Beast Design killed it with the cover, which you will see in its full glory in a few weeks. For now, imagine weapons-grade whimsy, and think about whether you want to request an advance review copy, for I will
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As I work on the sequel to Academaze (it’s going to be so good!), I dip into and out of the original, and here’s a goofy poem that always makes me smile. Very appropriate for the get-papers-written-and-submitted-before-the-fall-semester-starts mad scramble we all know and love.
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I started, nearly finished, then abandoned two posts. I will get to them later, I promise. They were nice and meaty and thoughtful, maybe a little too thoughtful for comfort, so I just didn’t feel it was a good time to post them. They still need to marinate some. I think this might be what
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