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Novel update
So, based on feedback, it's basically not possible to withhold information from my first person main character narrator and tell the reader. I mean, I feel like it should be! but no matter how sledgehammery I think I'm being, people just don't get it. So, enter more...
I’m in Publisher’s Weekly!
I hear I'm in Publisher's Weekly today! 😀 I... haven't seen it, though. Coincidentally, the ebook of the title in question is 99 cents right now most places ebooks are sold. So if you'd like to read it, now is the time to buy it, while it's cheap!
Hardware update
So, when talking about the Librem 5, I mentioned that I had a really old Librem 13 that I wasn't using as much as I would like. Since then, the laptop that I was running Qubes on seized up and died, so... I'm once again running Qubes on my beautiful Librem 13....
Kirkus likes my book…
"An imaginative collection that puts a modern spin on beloved fairy tales and myths." — Kirkus Reviews You can see more of the review here.
“Becoming,” a newsletter exclusive short story
Do you like vampires? Do you like 18th and 19th century Prussian vampires with a crush? Do you like music, religion, betrayal, sweet first love, and terrible mistakes made? Do you like 18th century philosophy, and boys having crushes on boys? If so, I might have...
I’m all over IndieReader!
I'm listed in the Best Reviewed Books for December and, because they gave me 4+ stars, they interviewed me for their site. An excerpt: What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event? Oh, it’s hard to answer this question because it’s a short...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.