hello high winds

my power kept going out from 3 until 9 pm. Off and on, off and on. At least now if it goes out, it's just an inconvience and not dangerous like when it's frigid out.

I forgot to mention there was a boatload of new manga at Booksamillion. It reminds me of a decade ago when Borders used to have a half dozen new titles every time ELD and I would go there. It was Tokyo Pop doing most of that (wondering if that lead to their bankruptcy along with the piracy). I did see Behind the Scenes!! by Bisco Hatori. I did love Ouran H.S.H.C. but this is purely contemporary and that's not my usual. That said so was OHSHC and I had fun with it. Has anyone read it? I picked up some weird vampire thing called Bloody Mary. I thought about Karneval by Touya Mikangi but it was an omnibus and I prefer to get those online because they do sales there but not so much in the brick and mortar.

I could use YOUR help. In Blood Red Roulette I have the terms Supernaturals to refer to werewolves, vampires etc and Normals for humans. The question is should that be capitalized or not. What do you think?

Writerly Ways

Today I have no words of so-called wisdom but I DO have plenty of links and questions for you all.

1. I'm trying to decide between Corpse Dust & Corpse Powder for my title to my Weird West story (both refer to the substance of literal corpse bone skinwalkers use to kill). Which do you like better?

2. Arrigo & Luc's story has been called Blood Red Roulette for years and that title was kindly given to me by anat_astarte. However, there is no roulette even referred to in my Vegas story. Admittedly Blood Red Slots doesn't have the same ring. Neither really suggest it might have a romantic subplot but does I suppose suggest vampires and people being attacked. Thoughts? Keep it? Change it? Suggestions as to what it could be.

And now the links:

First Jana's blog where important goals were met and frustrations became apparent

And the rest were all kindly sent my way by my friend, ES.

querying tips

author’s roadmap to marketing (and might I add to this a closed facebook group featuring one aspect of your upcoming work, like I could do one for modern day vampires or something)

write here write now podcast with Lee Child

creating anti-heroes

themed world building

Yearly word count-

18936 / 115000
(16.47%)

Camp Nano -

2453 / 10000
(24.53%)

this is subject to change.