Current Draft Stats
- Status: 27k of 88k edited (30%)
- Characters Killed by Author: 8
- In-Frame Vampires: 0
Patter
This month was spent wrangling my research responsibilities at work. Turns out I am in some way touching 30 research projects. Yikes, that’s more than I would have guessed. That’s why it takes me 3 years to get a book out.
Speaking of which, I spent a lot of time back and forth with my fabulous editor, making sure I had some really big concepts nailed down. before I got down to the line edits. Now that that is done I am hoping the rest of the manuscript goes quick. Then the months-promised ARC.
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Quid Pro Non
Lamb of God by Anthony Harrington, Wyatt Adams
Not disappointed. I was guffawing out loud somewhere between once a page to once a chapter. The average Chapter length is 4.34 pages, so between 4.34^0 to 4.34^1, settle on 4.34^0.5, or once every 2.0841665 pages. This, I feel, is a conservative estimate, and not because I used averages instead of medians.
It felt like there was more, is what I’m saying.
There was a lot of sophomoric humor, so know that going in. I love that it subverts everything about religion. I love that when it seems to replace it with a humanistic message, it subverts that too.
It doesn’t take itself too seriously, and you can have a good ride with this book.
Here comes a new challenger!
The Renaissance of Genere-Mashing continues! A period historical with references to the age of pirates, a police procedural, a British-style murder mystery (complete with class dynamics), and just to keep things interesting, bawdy slapstick humor. Take it right in the jewels, generative AI! You’ll never match this!
I loved the frisson of class with the purportedly classless “free society”, laws upon the lawless, and high brow versus low brow. The murders had me guessing up until the very end, complete with [spoliers spoilers spoilers spoilers]. I mean, wow!
Currently Reading
Sable Montgrief wishes her curse would let her die. Unfortunately for her, fate has other plans.
Living alone in a cabin for decades, Sable has done her best to break the spell cast on her that
has extended her life for centuries. She never wanted immortality; in fact, she’s spent the
majority of her long life trying to end it. Her latest attempt has her so close to breaking free she
can taste it…until someone breaks down her door to find her.
Adem Ozturk is looking for someone to help his daughter, Ailith, who is plagued with visions of
the future she can neither manage nor interpret. They’re on the run from an unknown
organization with unlimited reach and are up against a wall–until Adem’s wife sends a message
to Ailith from beyond the grave, sending them to find Sable and recruit her to their cause. If
they can convince her to help they may be able to not only save Ailith, but prevent a global
cataclysm. The cost: another lifetime of torturous existence for Sable.
If they fail, she’ll be trapped in eternal torment; if they succeed, she’ll still lose everything
she loves.
Current Research
Are skin infection underdiagnoses in Black patients in the US?
Current Coding
An app to track academic research in my department.
BookFunnel Promos
Happy holidays! Not bookfunnel promos this month. It’s a holiday gift! To me!
Until Next Time!
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