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My 16-year-old, after accidentally pouring half a shaker of blue sugar on the floor while decorating a gingerbread house:

“Usually the dogs are idiots because they lick the floor. Right now the dogs are idiots because they’re not licking the floor.”

The Grumpy Cat Christmas movie would be fairly generic trending toward especially mediocre, except it’s furry. There aren’t enough movies about cats, & Aubrey Plaza’s snarky voiceover interruptions along with Grumpy Cat being waved around really elevate it to something… special. Continue reading “Grumpy Cat and Multiple Jack Frosts”

I watched “12 Days of Giving,” because it has Eli Wallace from Stargate: Universe in it. He was just as charming in a mediocre Christmas movie as in the far reaches of space, and it was a surprisingly nice little movie.

Rationally, I know I’m better off on my own than saddled with a publisher that didn’t reply to emails, delayed my books by years, and would end 12 years of working together with a curt email and zero warning. Continue reading “Tidbits of Surviving a Weird Time”

I feel like such a fool now for letting FurPlanet sit on Commander Annie & Other Adventures for almost four years, patiently waiting and defending their delinquency and lack of communication to my friends.

There are so many moving pieces and fiddly bits involved in getting more than a decade’s worth of work almost instantly republished. It’s a lot. Continue reading “After the Crash”

When my Entangled Universe trilogy came out from Aethon books, a number of people felt the need to pop up and tell me they wouldn’t be buying it, because that publisher only sells through Amazon, and they hated Amazon more than they cared about reading my fiction.

Now people are telling me they won’t read my fiction because of my stance on AI. Okay. No big deal. Continue reading “Things You Don’t Need to Tell an Author”

You don’t want to tangle with an octopus in a snowball fight. Unless you’re an octopus too, or maybe a spider or centipede or something, there’s NO WAY you have enough arms to keep up.

As someone who loves octopi so much that my mom let me skip a day of school as a teen to go to an aquarium and stare at a sleeping one for three hours in a wind tunnel while it twitched precisely once, it really means a lot to me how much better AI is getting at drawing them. Continue reading “Always Loved Octopi”

All of my previously published books that FurPlanet cancelled should be available again on Kindle by the morning, except for Jove Deadly’s Lunar Detective Agency. I need to talk to my co-author about that one.

Wide-distribution and paperbacks will be up next. Continue reading “Picking Myself Back Up”

In the last two days, I’ve made covers for 11 of the 12 books FurPlanet dropped.

All four Otters In Space books are already back on Kindle. Continue reading “Instant Turnaround on Re-Releases”

The more I watch what’s happening and see the parallels to things that have happened in the past, the more it looks to me like the tumultuous, negative aspects of AI being introduced into the world of art and writing were unavoidable, because it’s about people fearing change. Continue reading “People Fear Change”