Usually it's a scammy way of trying to get someone to pay for nebulous "SEO and website optimization" services which are never worth the money spent on them.
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Usually it's a scammy way of trying to get someone to pay for nebulous "SEO and website optimization" services which are never worth the money spent on them.
The cover for A Lady For All Seasons. A photograph of a redheaded woman in a blue dress is facing away from the viewer. The title and author name are illustrated as if on the front of a poetry chapbook. Text reads: The sequel to national bestseller A Gentleman's Gentleman. Out Now.
🌸 She has arrived 🌸
A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS, the Regency romp starring a cunning society lady who is looking for a fake marriage but instead falls for a genderfluid poetess, is out now.
Full synopsis, buy links, etc: tjalexander.com#books6
Very excited to live vicariously through you (I am not allowed to buy an Ooni)
Whatever carrier you get (soft or hard; we like hard) make sure it has front and top hatches. Top is easier (IMO) to get a grumpy cat in/out. We also have some K&H heated cat beds that ours loves laying on. Covers are removable/washable, and the electricity use is v.low.
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Big love to everyone who has followed so far!
Y'all will be getting a free short when the campaign launches called Außenseiter about this guy, Julian (aka Jools), and his feelings of otherness in his own family.
Out tomorrow: Nobody’s Baby, a sapphic sci-fi mystery novella on a space cruise ship where, suddenly, a wild baby appears!
This is the thing I keep coming back to. I read different stuff to suit different moods. Sometimes the n'th reread of a favorite Pratchett feels like a soothing hug; other times I want something challenging and immense. *Only* reading heavy litfic still counts as falling into a one-genre trap 🤷♂️
THE FACE OF INNOCENCE
Congratulations! This sounds very exciting!
And the clock on our rice cooker!
I'm now wondering if it would even consciously register with me that a story had flipped to second-person for a while 😂
Right, it's definitely more about poor writing throwing me out of the story, rather than the structural choices like POV.
This is the way!
We are immune!
I'm trying to think of an example of that that I've read, and my memory is refusing to even recall any POVs whatsoever 😂
It seems to have popped up today, and be a semi-regular topic! 😁
Y'know, I'm not sure I'd even register if it was the tense that put me off something. I'm going to have to think about the books I didn't finish 🤔
I genuinely find it fascinating when people have a preference, just because it's not something that my brain even spots 😁
Now I'm wondering... how many of us have to be wired "weird" before we're actually the majority, and it's everyone else who are really the strange ones?!
Same! It's just "does it feel right and am I enjoying it?" to me.
This is excellent news... it means my brain is just wired weirdly for other reasons 🤣
Is this a safe space to admit that I don't generally register present/past tense when I'm reading, either?
Times like these I really do start to doubt whether my brain is entirely wired up correctly. The idea of not reading something because of the POV wouldn't even occur to me 😂
I'm starting to wonder, now, what other things everyone else is noticing in books while they're reading, and I'm blithely unaware of.
I'm not saying YOU shouldn't care, or that you can't have a preference. But it is absolutely not something I register as A Thing when I pick up a new book.
Nothing makes me feel quite so out-of-touch with the current writing world as the furor over first vs third person. It's not that I don't have a preference when I read, as much as I just... don't notice? Brains sure are funny how they're wired.
I'm honestly trying to remember which the last few books I've read have been in, and I can't 😳 Which maybe says more about my brain/memory than anything else...
I'm always surprised when people have such a strong preference for first/third. I genuinely don't notice, as a reader. If the story and characters are going to hook me, they'll do it regardless.
I mean, I would absolutely believe that they were lying about it being easy in the first place, yes. Hence not being so surprised now that they're saying it's challenging!
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what the potential repercussions can be for that sort of misleading.
It'd be the 3rd book in a series that I still enjoy. I like the characters & have a decent idea of where the plot would go. Readers even concur that they like the MC's trajectory, and are eager for a little romance injected into what's definitely been mostly erotica so far.
My brain is an asshole.