Jackie came over tonight to show me that HO HO HO Hope says “Merry Christmas!” Oh, the things we put our pets through… Hope doesn’t mind, though! She’s a very good sport about it. So were my first goats (2010) Laverne and Shirley… … and Deaken *sigh*
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Jazzy, my oldest goat (at least 14, probably older), died overnight. We knew it was coming, so I had been out there with her a lot, grooming and massaging her and sitting in the sunshine with her. She ate well yesterday and the day before, but there was no question that she was on
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Will someone solve a mystery for me? My 17th title, TRAILBLAZER: A Guide for Magnificent Misfits, will be out in early 2024 and I’m wondering how many of my usual readers will buy and read it. I wonder this because all I usually hear from my regulars is, “Are you going to write another
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I’m halfway finished editing a 186K word sci fi novel. It has taken 51 hours to date to do 217 pages, an average of 4.7 pages per hour. That’s pretty darned good for the considerable amount of tweaking and massaging I’m doing. Heavy copy editing consists of 2–5 ms pgs/hour. Usually an editor charges
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Woo HOO! I’ve just completed editing and proofreading the first 1/3 of Bob Brantner’s sci fi novel. It’s truly a page-turner. I expected to get faster as I went along, but the manuscript has various repeating issues which require the same dedication to detail, nuance, and precision, so now I think it’s going to
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I cannot get over how freaking clever Robert M. Brantner is in this sci-fi novel I’m editing for him. I’m having so much fun, it’s ridiculous. And delicious. Alas, I can’t tell you a thing about it, but I’ve found myself grinning ear-to-ear or laughing out loud more times than I can count.
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I’m twelve hours into editing Technical Magic, the sci fi novel(s) by my cousin Robert M. Brantner. I’m loving this millennia-spanning, edge-of-your-seat story. It’s even hard to take a respectable break because I want to know what happens NEXT. Brantner is a helluva good storyteller! I have not read this entire manuscript
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I was a worker bee yesterday. So, today every single critter I own has clean sleeping places, fresh bedding, pristine litter boxes & crystal clear water (goats/cats, hens, fish). Which is not to say they were in terrible straits the days before yesterday. It’s just that yesterday I got a super shot of get up
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Great clients make my day. And what are the characteristics of a great client? Let me count the ways! My most recent example of a great client is a gentleman in Israel whose company researches and develops state-of-the-art-and-science mental clarity supplements using nanotechnology (the science of mixing oil with water well enough to
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This feast-or-famine life I lead as a writer-for-hire isn’t for the faint-of-heart. But I simply can’t imagine living any other way, having survived it for 16 years now. The holiday season and tax time in Feb-April are the deadly-slowest times of each year for me Work slows during the holiday season slightly before
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