Happy New Year to You

I'm not supposed to be working today. Our offices are closed for the holiday, after all. But I am sitting here, monitoring my work computer because of a little thing peculiar to professions diverse as doctor and computer geek -- the on-call.

So while technically I have a day off, I'm awake and relatively caffeinated and trying to be productive with what would otherwise be empty time. As Weird Al says, "Well, it sure beats raising cattle. Yeah and I forgot the next verse. Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse." Probably raising cattle is fun IRL but what else rhymes with Seattle?

Anyway, one of the things I'm doing is clearing up all my post-it notes. You know, the ones you write when a great plot idea strikes you in the middle of the night...? (What? Not everyone does that??)

I recently read Sourdough by Robin Sloan. I enjoyed the novel (and loved Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore). Sourdough has a line that hit me as brilliant so I jotted it on a post-it. Now I'm sharing it with you. It has more meaning if you've read the book and know about the characters, but it stands alone well enough.

Clingstone smiled distantly. "Oh, what about that book? I still love it. But I also wonder how it could possibly have resonated so powerfully with a twenty-three-year-old who had seen so little of the world. Now that I've actually suffered, I find it somewhat...theoretical."

Truth, that.

I'm also consolidating my post-it notes on Soul Mates, book 3 of the Pull of the Moon series. Having a bit of trouble with my lead male character, but I managed to re-imagine him via a bunch of middle-of-the-night soul-searching post-its. We'll see how these brilliant (tongue-in-cheek) revelations stand up to the light of day. Wish me luck.

From all of us at Mary Hughes Books, warm wishes for a safe, happy, healthy, productive, and satisfying 2022!

Here's a little cynical realization about this new year... https://imgur.com/t/happynewyear2022/3jpCmPp

4T Olio - 5 End of Year Thoughts you're probably having too

It's that time again. When we review where we've come (2019) and where we're going (2020)--hopefully with perfect vision (as per the year, lol).

1. It's the end of the year...and the decade? Well, no. But it is the year we retire a digit. Vive le 202x!


2. How about the best archaeology finds of 2018? Including evidence that beer was brewed as far back as 18000 years ago. That's right, eighteen thousand. Not even Elias was around then...we think.



Best archaeology finds of 2018



3. On a sadder note, here are the companies we lost this past decade. Goodbye Blockbuster, Payless, and Borders.


4. But look at all the superhero movies we had just in the second half of the decade!



All superhero movies coming out from now until end of 2019.




5. And here are Rotten Tomatoes top movies of 2019. I'm writing this on December 16. What do you think, will Star Wars make the list?

1T Status Update--Is it Summer Yet?

photo credit: Happy New Year! via photopin (license)

Happy New Year! Warm wishes for a prosperous 2017!

Here in the north, it's deep winter. I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder but I do have a twitchy diminutive version of it.

February...

Late October or early November, I usually put a pin in the calendar as the first day I CAN'T STAND THE DARK anymore. I know that I'll have to suffer from now until December 21 (shortest day) PLUS that number of days into February or March, before I can stop huddling and shivering, and can start to breathe again.

Spring...

So to help me and those like me, here's a reminder that yes, summer is coming.

Ah, summer!

Looking ahead:

• The box set Happily Ever Alpha is releasing next month. 
• We'll have another grand HEA Facebook party soon. 
• Preorder HEA for $0.99. 
• Preorder iPad Mini giveaway here.
• Night's Caress is in the hands of my Entangled editor. 
• Now I get to pick what to work on next! So what should it be, Soul Mates, Night's Kiss, or something completely different? Email me if you have a preference :)

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