Today is the Day

[cornerofmadness]

My novella is out there and someone found it and loved it. Check it out here. Yes it's barely making a blip on the radar but it is a novella. I'm just happy that someone found it that fast and asked for a sequel. OMG everyone wants a sequel of this time. I'm going to have to deliver.

Blackboard is busy being a dick. It's now reading yet another test's answers as wrong because that's not anxiety inducing in my students (or in me) AND setting up last year's homeworks up for this year and every time I changed the date, it would say there's an error and I'd have to do it again. Every. Time. Die Blackboard, die.


Back to happy news, the Prodigal Son crew have two episodes of script in hand. Woot! I don't know how they're going to be doing this but they're one step closer.

And it was a good geek day because I got the Stands charity shirt with Crowley and Aziraphale on it (for Michael Sheen and Misha Collins' charity for the homeless, Super Good) and the two things I bought on Star Trek Day.

Also good the coworker I was subbing for is back and that freed me up to at least get some of my gradebooks made so I can start putting online grades into it.

And finally they fixed the a/c and now it's meat locker cold in my office. Better than the sweat box of the last two weeks

In the bad, I just can't with JK Rowling any more. Well I couldn't for a good few years now but now she's doubling down on her transphobia by having a transvestite serial killer in upcoming book. Yes, I'm sure that's happened in real life. Yes, frankly it's been done, it's the plot of one of my favorite movies SIlence of the Lambs (and even there it's problematic) but right now with all the transphobia and the killings of trans people, this is not the time for this book especially coming from a known TERF. Sigh.

Comments

[rahirah]

Rowling seems to have gone completely off the deep end.

[cornerofmadness]

seriously. It is literally splintering the publishing world. People are deep into cancel culture on this one (understandably IMO). They're going after Hatchette for publishing it and people are trawling editors/agents/authors who still have JKR on their twitter feed as someone they follow (I had stopped with her some time last year)

[rahirah]

I'm glad I was never that much into Harry Potter, TBH. I can just go "Eh, she's an asshole, I'm not going to buy her stuff," and not feel Deeply Betrayed or anything.

[cornerofmadness]

I did really enjoy the movies (the books actually less) but yeah I was never hugely into it. I can watch the movies and support the actors, her less so

[thenewbuzwuzz]

"My novella is out there and someone found it and loved it."
That's lovely! Congratulations!

"Die Blackboard, die."
Seriously, and is there anything else you could use instead, after you murder Blackboard as it deserves?

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. It made me happy!


Ugh don't I wish. No, Blackboard is one of the largest online teaching platforms in America (maybe further for all I know) Many universities use it

[trobadora]

My novella is out there and someone found it and loved it.

Yay, congrats! :D

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks so much

[sylvanwitch]

Happy book birthday--that's awesome! I'm so glad you've gotten such a lovely review right off--has to make the work feel less work-like. ;-).

[cornerofmadness]

thanks so much. It was nice