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TBR of Doom: Chronic Book Hopper Edition

I've been having a hard time reading. Wait, that's not entirely accurate--I've had a hard time reading one book and finishing that book. Basically, I've been all over the place. And for the most part, I can't blame this on the books. I don't think it's their fault? This is very much an, "I'm the ...

BTLN Chapter...41?!?!

...We made it to the last chapter? WE MADE IT TO THE LAST CHAPTER! (Except there's an epilogue.) This is a long one for you, too. I'm feeling really weird about closing up Sam's story. Weird, but good. Thanks for going on this journey with me, friends.

--Lish

PS I've been t...

TBR of Doom Freezing Rain Edition

I like snow--I was hoping for snow. Instead we got freezing rain, so Smalls has been home from school for two days, which has made working difficult. I'm glad the kid is curious and has lots of questions but also I would like to concentrate for more than ten seconds at a time. Last weekend was al...

A Quick Peek at Red in Tooth and Claw

I'm finishing up my copy edits today, which means me fussing over small details but also laughing because I've created a book that makes a copy editor have to put in comments like, "I'm assuming there are two based on the average pulling capacity of a donkey so I'm just going to go ahead and make...

Cover Reveal!

I dropped it in the chat earlier (I think you can only access chat on the mobile app of Patreon? Which is weird.) but I wanted to share it here, too. We've got a cover for Red in Tooth and Claw, a release date AND a sneak peek! *flailing muppet arms*

So this year we'll have:

Curses in...

BTLN Chapter 40

Sometimes I get annoyed with my pace and irritated that I don't get these chapters up as fast as I want. Often, though, something happens to remind me that creativity takes time and those waits are good things. That was really clear this week. I started chapter 40 and had it set back in the dinin...

TBR Post Holiday Reading

I recently signed up for StoryGraph--I'm not one who usually pays attention to how many books they read in a year (I know it's a lot. I don't need hard numbers.) and I never particularly enjoyed Good Reads for my reading use. I've had a few friends speak highly of StoryGraph, though, and I though...

BTLN Chapter 39

Should have had this picture up Friday, but I got into a bit of a funk and then it was Man Friend's birthday. But finally, here it is! The picture above is not mine, but one snagged from the internet so you can see the real build-a-bear that Salty is modeled after. Salty Bear is from a text excha...

TBR of Doom Post Holiday Edition

Man Friend dubbed this our "Sad Christmas" not because we are sad, but because our holidays, for various reasons, involved a lot of sad people.  It made for a kind of strange holiday, especially when you factor in the fact that it was the first Christmas without Bigs living in our house. I a...

Text Exchange Round Up

I'm working on the next Sam chapter, but the holidays have hit hard and my MIL broke her spine, which has thrown a wrench in a lot of things. (She's doing great--had surgery to fuse her spine, is in rehab, but obviously we've been handling a lot of stuff for her.)

I thought now might be a g...

TBR of Doom: Books I haven't necessarily read edition!

It's the holidays, which means I'n buying books for other people (and okay, maybe a few for myself because no one buys me books anymore). Since all I've been reading is Alice Coldbreath's medieval romance books and listening to the Mercy Thompson series (still. I'm on Smoke Bitten), my TBR would ...

BTLN Chapter 38

This image has literally nothing to do with the chapter. However, if you put "possum cowboy" or "opossum cowboy" into shutter stock, you get almost nothing. If you put "raccoon cowboy" for some reason you have many, many choices. *sighs*

Enjoy the chapter!

--Lish

TBR of Doom

I don't have a fun theme for this one. Mostly, it's just been great for my brain to be recovering from it's the extended period where it was impersonating a bowl of overcooked pasta. I've been watching more TV than I have been--I'm not knocking TV. I just haven't been watching much of it. But I'v...

BTLN Chapter 37

FINALLY. This chapter took a long time for some reason, and I had to ask Editor Mel if it made any sense when I was done. (I had to edit another thing HAHAHA my brain is tired, friends.) We still have a few chapters left in this beast because there's a lot to tie up.  Enjoy!

--Lish

TBR of Doom, Grief Edition

(Fair warning, I ramble a lot in this post.)

I write about death a lot. I mean, my first two books were literally about people who could bring them back. Red in Tooth in Claw is a lot about grief. I think it's something that people think about in general, but I think I was always a bit fixa...

Snippet from Bevy of Trouble (Uncanny #3)

I've been pecking away at the next Sam chapter but words have been either slow or nonexistent. I think I killed my brain in October. The last six-seven weeks have been, frankly, brutal. I keep forgetting words, using the wrong words, and last night at trivia, said the wrong numbers like three tim...

BTLN Chapter 36

Editor Mel actually got this back to me on Saturday and usually I get it out the same day, but I got sick for the first time in like four years. Mel has also stated that, with the schedule and workload I kept the last month, me getting sick wasn't a total surprise. I agreed. I totally dug that ho...

TBR of Doom Full Sloth Mode addition.

Last week was honestly the busiest week ever. It looked like this:

Monday: Edit 80 pages, go see Suzie Izzard with my mom (our birthday presents to ourselves)

Tuesday: Edit 120 pages, turn in Red in Tooth in Claw in some sort of fugue state, write trivia questions, and then host trivi...

Firebug Text Exchange

Editing is eating my brain and I'm still super behind. Wee? Wee. But I needed to write something fun to get my brain back on track, and since I didn't feel up to working on a whole chapter, I figured a text exchange might be fun. It's been a minute since I did Team Firebug, so here you go!

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Red in Tooth and Claw

I've been deep in the edits for my next YA, Red in Tooth and Claw which are due in...nine days. *winces*

I'm trying really hard not to think about it. It's a tight turn around deadline-wise, and we're not doing anything major. At this stage of editing, we're cutting away the stuff that's sl...

TBR/To Be Viewed of Doom

This last week involved me driving a lot (12 hours en toto, I think?) to visit friends and get to my book event in Portland, which was a lot of fun. (Special shout out to Patron Kat, who came to see me at Powell's! If any of you ever see me in the wild, please let me know you're a patron...

Checking In

I got slammed with a bunch of edits due ASAP last week, plus moving my MIL out of her house. (HAHAHAHA, she has so much stuff. It's a nightmare. She's lovely, but this is going to be exhausting.) And so I crashed and burned at the end of the week and I'm losing a few days this week to my event in...

BTLN Chapter 35

You've all been so patient, thank you! I've been freakishly inundated with work lately and every time I clear off my plate, more lands. Oof.

Happy Friday, friends!

--Lish

TBR of Doom Tri-Cities Edition

I had to drive 4 hours to an event last weekend. Driving from where I live to the tricities area of Washington is long, but a fairly straightforward drive and quite pretty in some places.

Unless you have a headache bordering on a migraine, which I definitely did have. I was by myself, so I ...

TBR of Doom--Birthday Edition

It was my birthday! I told one my of friends I was "eld" and she said, "eldritch?" and that's my new favorite way to describe myself. I am becoming the eldritch being I deserve to be. 

Birthdays are weird when you get older. I always want to do something, but I never want to plan it, e...

BTLN Chapter 34

I do have an image for this one, but I'm posting it from a boat and it won't upload! I'll repost it later. Until then, enjoy!