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NaNoLoMo

18 Thursday Oct 2012

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NaNoLoMo: Read good books. Review good books. Help authors!

I won’t be doing NaNoWriMo this year for the first time in a long time, because I just have too much other work on my plate.

So I was thinking that instead, every day I will make a short review of a book I love and post it in a place that will actually help sales (like Amazon or Goodreads). One positive review can make SUCH a difference for an author, and I love way more than 30 books.

Welcome to NaNoLoMo (National Novel Loving Month — although it won’t be restricted to just novels).

Here are the details:

  • Make a commitment to write a short review every day for the month of November. (If one a day feels too scary, make a different commitment that feels right for you — two a week, one a week, whatever works).
  • Only choose books you love (doesn’t have to be a novel — can be non-fiction, poetry, short stories, etc.).
  • Post your reviews in a place that will help the authors (GoodReads, Amazon, etc.)!

That’s it! It’s that easy!

Sound cool to you? Then here are some additional ways to get involved: 

  • Feel free to save and use the image above on anything you like — your reviews, blog posts, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
  • Check out the official Facebook page for a place to post reviews, talk about what you’re reading, and connect with the community.
  • Are you a NaNoLoMo-er? Add a badge to your profile picture to show your support!
  • Use the hashtag #NaNoLoMo or #NaNo<3Mo to help people find reviews easier.
  • Are you an author? Spread the word to your loyal readers — maybe they want to get involved and share the love too!

Kiss kiss bang bang, s.

NaNo, Day 1 Posted

03 Thursday Nov 2011

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The stag is a man, and she knew this all along, saw this all along, but didn’t either, because he wasn’t man then. He was a stag. Or a man in a stag suit. Or stag in a man suit. He stands now on two legs, near her in the stream, and he still has a stag’s black eyes and stag’s white fur. His antlers are really a bow, and also arrows, slung over his back in a way that they stick up above his head, wooden and carved. Around his neck on a leather thong hangs a silver shine, like her ring only different, long and pointed. A tiny knife, serrated, the handle made of something ivory. Horn, she thinks. And then: No. Bone.

[You can read the whole novel as it's written... just ask me for the password!]

Kiss kiss, bang bang, s.

NaNo, Day 1

02 Wednesday Nov 2011

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Crim, by the light of the moon

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I’ll be posting word counts and pages a day behind, so that I’m always a step ahead of you! (-insert wicked queen laugh here-). If you want to read along with the bouncing NaNo ball, email me for the password. Here’s the synopsis (sort of spoiler alert? here) in case you want to see what it’s all about before you dive in:

CRIM SYNOPSIS

Somewhere between Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After, there is the Never After—a dark, wooded world, the likes of which no child should ever see.

Rowen is daydreaming of kissing a girl in her class when she gets lost on her way to grandmother’s house. Mesmerized by the stag man who guards the river-door to the Never After, she loses not just her head but her very heart to his voracious appetites, but is saved by Gretry, a beast of a man who builds her a clockwork heart to replace her human one.

Raised as Gretry’s own and unaware of where she’s come from, Rowen rediscovers the truth on her sixteenth birthday. Unable to return home, but in danger if she stays, Rowen is given a rare invite to try out for the Petit Chaperon–the elite group of wolf-riding, moon-magic wielding women who protect real-world children from the likes of the stag men, the candy witches and, most of all, from the Fair Queen herself. Rowen readies herself for the challenge, but the path before her is dark and wild. In order for the Chaperons to accept her, she must prove not only her ability to kill, but also her ability to love, for the wolf she rides to battle is far more than a four-legged creature of war; under the moon’s eye, her mount shapeshifts to the woman destined to be her lover.

All the while, there are dark stirrings in the woods, signs that someone—or something—is crossing the river-door, hoping to destroy the Never After and those who walk its moonpaths. In working with Gretry, the riders, and the wolf-woman she’s come to love to save the Never Ever, Rowen finds acceptance in the Chaperons, into her lover’s arms, and into the very world itself.

“Crim” is an 80,000-word mythpunk dark fantasy novel that explores coming-of-age, sexuality, love and acceptance, all wrapped up with a bow made of fairy tale tropes, gears and gadgets, and the love of language.

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