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If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

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MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS FOR NOVELISTS
1: Susie has written 12 chapters of a novel. Her editor asks her to cut 3 chapters and rewrite 8 chapters.
How many glasses of wine does Susie drink that night?

2: Every day Paul spends 3 hours procrastinating, 2 hours worrying, and 1 hour napping.
How long until the publisher asks Paul to repay his advance?

3: Anne writes a new novel every 6 months. 75% of Anne’s novels are bestsellers and 66% win literary prizes.
How much do you hate Anne?

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Chapter 48 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Pride speaks with the Void witch he keeps on payroll, for advice on the curses he's been afflicted with, but the answers are not to his liking...

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141d

Chapter 2 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Verda Bagley leads a presentation to the highest levels of the United States military, to inform them of The Order of Ash and Smoke's plan to invade Hell and invite them to participate in giving demon-kind the biggest bloody nose in history.

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143d

Chapter 5 of Rowley's Ride is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Edwina's guitar is finished, despite Plasmie's every attempt to kill her, but before they finish, the new law banning mythril guitars is passed.

They press on, regardless, but the first time Edwina plays Myth Guitar, the song reaches a hundred miles in every direction, even into orbit...

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94d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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166d

Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.

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165d

Chapter 42 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Mika ends up in a face-to-face gun battle with Pride, who's armed only with a pistol...

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136d

Chapter 8 of Rowley's Ride is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Edwina and Sapphire are forced to their knees in front of the Dead Queen, who analyzes their magic, then gives them a chance for their lives to be spared, if only they can give her a reason...

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140d

Chapter 6 of Rowley's Ride is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Edwina and Sapphire run for their lives and fight to make an opening, only to see Matron Talbot's personal ship, Resolute Hex come at them, which is a trouble like no other...

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240d

I feel like the dystopian techbros and super-rich aren't getting enough credit in this meme 🤔😁

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Four panel meme of Mr. Bean cheating on a test.

Then: Government (Mr. Bean) looking at dystopian scifi books and movies (his neighbours test)
Now: Dystopian fiction writers (Mr. Bean) looking at government (his neighbours test)

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139d

Chapter 3 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Lady Oz'gozod manages to get some answers from Mashu'ra about Annmarie, but the moment he realizes she's reading his mind, he shifts his focus to resisting at all costs. He remembers a mental technique he perfected centuries earlier, turning his entire mind into an endless shell game.

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162d

Chapter 43 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

While the Ashen Blades and the demons are busy shooting at each other, Pride takes the opportunity to privately speak with Greed, Sloth and Gluttony...

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162d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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161d

Today is the birthday of the Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814) - a gifted writer and a monster. His name became a word for taking pleasure in another person’s suffering: #sadism.

In his #books we see how intellect, power, and desire can become a philosophy of #violence.

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137d

Chapter 4 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Lara Simmons visits the black market arms dealer the Ashen Blades work with, to pick up the most special order the organization has ever placed...

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136d

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that – I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much – so very much to learn.”

Sylvia Plath, #author of The Bell Jar

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138d

Chapter 7 of Rowley's Ride is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Thinking to escape into pirate space, Edwina and Sapphire run toward Nuva, the mortuary world, which is the center of the pirate queen's territory. Unfortunately, Matron Talbot is so incensed, Resolute Hex follows them...

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159d

There are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones.
Orson Scott Card

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125d

Chapter 9 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Artemis tries and fails to grab the elemental spirit, because it isn't physical, only managing to divide it into three fire elementals, the Fire Spirit's children. Facing them reminds her of a story Masher once shared about her mother facing such a creature...

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158d

Chapter 45 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

Verda dodges potshots from demon witches, while she works to assemble a powerful accumulation of curses, which strangely lack a target...

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158d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish
Series Ebook omnibus: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince try to change history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will they kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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133d

Chapter 9 of Rowley's Ride is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Edwina and Sapphire get their first look at Palace of Blood, the Dead Queen's shipyard, where they will soon begin overseeing construction of a battleship for Edwina to command.

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120d

50% off @ #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1821081

The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…

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(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts

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132d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/StoneProphet

Nicole seeks to collect the missing fragments of the magical city of Kurg from her home world, but the remaining pieces were deactivated and are hard to find. Luckily, she just found the first piece of the Seventh Sage, an ancient stone man that knows the future, which she hopes knows where to find them.

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