Celebrated Mom's birthday early

Technically it's tomorrow but my brother and his wife could be here today with pizza. And the ability to make me feel like I SO don't matter. It's the weird thing. He doesn't do this when we're at his place but here, every damn time. Let's see I was told my opinion wasn't the only one and didn't matter. And then with Dad, I hear the words 'let's agree to disagree' come out of Dad's mouth. Blinks with me he never says that. He will research for hours on line to prove me wrong (and heaven help me if I did get a detail wrong) and my opinions are always wrong. We never get to be on opposite sides with respect so my only conclusion is something is inherently wrong with me in their eyes.

I'm also pretty furious that Mom has invited Prejudice Girl and her Hateful Husband to damn near everything this holiday. I'm hoping they won't be here tomorrow like they were meant to (because Prejudice Girl is sick (For the newcomers to my blog, PG is the daughter of my parent's best friends but has NONE of their kindness and good hearts (and her mom is gone now so she's like hooked up wiht my mom as a second mom). My parents DO NOT believe me about the horrible things I've heard these two say about gays, blacks, jews, name it, they hate it and oddly they ARE good to my parents but I hate them and in this friendship over the last decade my parents have gotten insanely conservative (they've been democrats my whole life until these two).

I'm angry that they want me to spend Mom's birthday with them, Christmas Day, the day after Christmas, another day next week and potentially New Year's Eve. It's insane. They know how I feel so you can see where I rate. Because of course I'm exaggerating things because those two are republicans and I hate all republicans. Blinks. I don't hate people based on political party. I hate them for the things they do and say.

But it's up to me. I don't have to go to Christmas Day or the day after dinner. So I can be with people I hate or be alone on Christmas.


On the bright side, I cleaned up my remix fic and finished three more projects for fandom_stocking now to start on some 12_daysofficmas stories

Fic - She Was Wrath

Title -- She Was Wrath

Author-- cornerofmadness

Disclaimer -- Joss Whedon owns all

Rating -- PG-13

Characters/Pairing -- Faith & Lilah

Timeline -- Post Series

Word Count -- 2,467

Warning --none

Summary -- Faith doesn’t understand how Angel could work for Wolfram and Hart but she’s going to find out.

Author’s Note -- This was written for the Circle of Friends remix. It’s a remix of M. Scott Eiland’s Damaged Goods, which you can find here.


“She was fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows




( She Was Wrath )

Writely Ways

Marketing. I don't know how some of the self pubbers do it. Even with help, even with doing most of the things I read about in the advice articles, my sales are still flatlined. Even with a beautiful cover and a genre favorite paranormal creature, it looks like zero books are selling (though I know some have to be as I see the reviews on Goodreads but wished they'd put them on Amazon too. I couldn't even give away arcs. Maybe it was a mistake not to have a newsletter but to be honest I'm not sure anyone reads them. I get dozens of them a week and basically I scan it it and delete it if I even bother to open them. (got on most of these thanks to insta-freebie now prolific works)

So I'm marketing a little right here. These are all my holiday related stories and my novel and the best part it's ALL on sale. In fact if you've ever wanted any of my stories, follow that link to Dreamspinner and just search me out because ALL my DSP stuff is on sale.


Professional Book Cover Design For me, this is SUCH a catch-22. I would want a good cover but the cost is more than I'll make on the book based on nearly 10 years of experience at this point.

How to Market Your Book: AskALLi Beginners’ Self-Publishing Salon December 2018

And from Betty
10 Top Book Marketing Articles from BookBub in 2018 (hey speaking of marketing)


Cut and Cut (and Cut Again) — The Self-edit Credo

Feeling Stuck? Focus on a Single Sentence

Five Essentials for an Opening Scene I need to look at this one for Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron. I NEED to rewrite it for a third time because it just doesn't work. I would love someone to look at it after I do (well I'll probably just hand it back to my writers group)

Eight Terrain Features for Fantasy Kingdoms to Fight Over This one is quite good

Damaged Goods PODCAST
202 – Omniscient Narration Hint I haven't listened to it yet but Omniscient Narration is NOT a mistake or a sign of bad writing, just saying


( Fanfic meme )

What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing? Honestly I never thought about it. If I had to analyze it, I'd have to say troubled family dynamics are some of my favorites to write. I enjoy that even more than romantic relationships.