by Katherine Villyard | Mar 20, 2024 | press, writing
I’m number one in Canada!!!! I love you, Canada! <3 [Edit on 3/21/24] I should have checked Kobo yesterday, but today I’m #3 there! [/edit] (Amazon swears I’ll have a sales rank in the UK tomorrow, but I currently don’t have...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 20, 2024 | press, selling fiction, writing
I have an international-only Bookbub deal TODAY. Are you in the US? That’s okay, my book is on sale for you, too! It’s 0.99 for all the English-speaking markets. You can grab your copy with this smart link: https://books2read.com/kvlovestories Tell your...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 15, 2024 | free fiction, short fiction
This story was originally posted in Ficticious Force in 2009 and reprinted in Escape Pod on May 13, 2011, and in Love Stories in 2022. Yvonne looked up from her monitor, the beads in her cornrows clattering as Roger walked into her office. Roger sat in the dark wooden...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 12, 2024 | press
Things are afoot! Many things! A hint: my book Love Stories is on sale for 99 cents/pennies in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia RIGHT NOW. BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH.
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 6, 2024 | drabble
No one mentions supply chain problems for witches. Alas. Seriously, do you know the cost of a decent cauldron these days? And then there are the actual ingredients. Moonstone and alabaster are one thing, but even quartz has had its issues. Hawthorne, valerian, lemon...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 29, 2024 | novels
I’ve been querying my novel for about two months now, and so far it’s basically emailing out or pasting into Query Manager and waiting, punctuated by surprisingly nice form letters. I mean, I got A LOT of rejections sending out my short stories (and also...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 26, 2024 | sql
My company recently moved to AWS, so I’ve been looking for more information specific to SQL Server performance tuning in AWS. Unfortunately, a lot of what I’m finding is marketing copy devoid of technical detail. Apparently, moving my data to the cloud is great for...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 21, 2024 | drabble
It’s almost the full moon, and I’m out of sick time. I’m tired, and itchy, and I shaved this morning and have a five o’clock shadow at noon. I just want to curl up under the conference table and take a nap. Instead, I go to the lunch line in the cafeteria downstairs....
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 19, 2024 | sql
Mostly so I can link it to a post that’s getting traffic… Declare @DBname varchar(255), @SQL nvarchar(max), @today nvarchar(50), @servername nvarchar(50) set @today = convert(nvarchar,GETDATE(),12) set @servername =...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 15, 2024 | novels
Short answer: Probably not. Long answer: The book is set in 18th century Prussia (mostly Bavaria), 19th Century Prussia (Berlin) and Britain (London), 20th century Berlin and New York, and 21st century Greater New York Metro Area. The only reference to China is where...