Watch me take flak for sharing this.
Anyway, as a creative, I can say and show that I agree. Not only have I never received a grant, I’ve never been willing to apply for one.
On the other hand, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention my Patreon here. Go, read what Srossel has to say. Then, if you’re so inclined, come on back and take a look at my pulpy little serial.
Reason: Killing Big Bird. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw5-P_wTQ
“The benevolence of governments dictating you must have this or that — free health care, free food, free lodgings — is always a threat of force against those they force to provide you with those.”
Hm. Where have I heard that before.
Oh, yeah. Hank Rearden.
Both of these are worth reading.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2017/03/03/live-liberty-reasonably-priced-love/
Third time’s the charm, so they say, and so my cover file was finally accepted. I should have a physical proof in hand in the next couple weeks, and shortly thereafter have it up for sale for everyone.
If you want to know more about this book that I keep blaring my horn about, I’ve got the cover and back blurb posted over under Tangled Threads Publishing. There will be an Amazon link as soon as it’s live.
Advent of Ruin will face a slight delay, as my dumb butt forgot to account for printing bleeds when I was designing my cover. Assuming there’s nothing else I missed (and there shouldn’t be, according to the email I received), and there’s no delay after I click “publish,” it should be up tomorrow.
UPDATE 3/2/16: And then it’s been long enough since I was on a newspaper that I did the bleeds exactly wrong. Cover should be fixed this time. Incidentally – Scribus is not very good at preserving colors in PDFs. GIMP works much better, although I recommend doing your text in another editor.
For dinner tonight, neither of us particularly wanted chicken florentine, so I came up with this. It’s primal-ish at worst, and while I was a lazy cave-girl it would be easy enough to put together a salad or some greens.
I measured nothing, by the way. All seasonings are to taste.
Ingredients
Blend the rice with what looks like a good amount of seasoning (this is where I used the chili powder and cilantro). Melt some of the bacon fat in your saucepan and toss the seasoned rice in it until it starts to turn colors. Add your broth and cook as normal.
Meanwhile, dice and season your chicken (I used cayenne rather than chili powder here, and no more cilantro, but that’s just me). Melt more fat in a skillet and add the seasoned chicken.
While the rice finishes and the chicken cooks, heat up your beans, then sprinkle with cheese.
Once your chicken is cooked, add cheese to that pan, too, and let it melt.
Serve with salsa and the salad of your choice.
It’s Tuesday morning, which means Episode 7 of Einarr Stigandersen and the Jotünhall is now live for your enjoyment.
In other news, yesterday I finally got my manuscript submitted to CreateSpace, so there should be paperbacks available for Advent of Ruin as well as Kindle ebooks. At least to start with, I’m going to be running it in the Kindle Unlimited program. I’ll see how it’s gone after the first 90 days, and decide if I’m going to keep it exclusive or not then.
Hey-yo. For any of you reading along, Episode 6 of The Adventures of Einarr Stigandersen is now live. If you’re looking for the first episode, go here. For the table of contents, here.
I hope you’re enjoying what you read! Feel free to make comments as you read along – although while speculation is encouraged spoilers are not!
The new episode of Einarr Stigandersen and the Jotünhall: 1.5 – Tafl is now live!
And now I have a buffer to catch up on and a file to tweak so the book doesn’t look funky on Kindle.
Just recently I read a piece on Mad Genius Club talking about just what gothic romance was. Today, I found this on Quartz India and wondered how many gothic romances were inspired here, rather than on the moors of England.
Quartz India: The ghosts of a literary Indian hill town still haunt the writers of the present. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw4r21rTQ
It seems that WordPress might not actually be pushing my project pages like posts. I knew I was going to need to upgrade my account, but I may actually need to move to self-hosting, as well. So! If you haven’t already noticed, Episode 4 is live. Hopefully sometime soon I’ll be able to sit down with a sketchbook and come up with some illustrations for those pages, but to be honest that’s lower priority than the story itself.
In other news, my Patreon account is also live! If you enjoy my writing, and have a few dollars a month you’re willing to send my way, I hope you’ll pop on over there and take a look. Doing well there will help me do things like hire illustrators so that I can keep turning out quality stories – which, again, are my priority here.
While I’m on the subject, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my first novel, Advent of Ruin, is I believe still on track to go live on Amazon on March 1. I have a couple quick changes to make to the text, the glossary to finish, and then it’s just formatting. Fingers crossed!
