July 2024 - summer chaos and other things
and don't forget The Lost Star Chart is coming soon!
Hi Everyone,
It’s truly summer where I am (a non-tropical island in the Pacific), because my daughter is now out of school for two whole months. I’m only taking a week off from my day job so the math doesn’t work, thus the impending chaos. I’ve done my best to plan my way out of the chaos, but no summer has yet gone smoothly—I’ll still make time to write even if it’s only in fifteen minute chunks.
I’ve also dug out my hammock and have started my yearly tradition of standing out in the garden eating whatever berry is ripe (right now strawberries and tayberries).
In other news, The Lost Star Chart is with an editor for a final run through, then it’ll be ready to go. I think it’s my best book yet. Since I have some time, I’m working on a related short story—I love writing with these characters and I’m tempted to do a bunch of short stories with them.
Something Awesome (and tiny)
I just stumbled upon Rosa de Jong’s miniature worlds and I’m charmed.
What I’ve been reading
Yesterday, I finished This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone and it was delightful as everyone has said. It’s a novella, so short, and it is letters back and forth between two agents on opposite side of a time war. It’s one I wish I had read sooner, and it’ll be going on my shelf to read again.
The second book I finished was The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O’Keefe. It was good, solid space opera with an interesting premise. The essence of a person along with their last backed-up memories can be stored and put into a newly printed body as needed. It seems like a world where no one need suffer bad knees, but it also makes me wonder how murder is viewed. If a body can just be reprinted, is murder acceptable?
What have you been reading?
And finally, happy Canada day!
Cheers,
Jeannette
Asa Kleve craved a life of intergalactic adventure.
Instead, she’s tasked with babysitting a group of demanding scientists on the dead planet Cozore.
But all of that changes when a rival galactic power attacks and kidnaps the scientists, leaving her for dead.
Rescued from the rubble by an alien—one long thought to be extinct—Asa makes a pact with her unexpected new ally to save both their peoples before it’s too late.
This dead planet may not be so dead after all, and Asa is about to find more adventure than she ever bargained for.
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