I am so sad for everyone at Roaring Brook, and about what’s happening with kidlit in general lately. (I know some authors are still doing well there and I am glad!) But overall it feels fairly dire 😩 I have a YA proposal I haven’t even bothered with because sales just aren’t there for me right now. And it feels terrible because kids and teens need books!! But also people need to be paid!

Y’ALL I’m so LUCKY! I get to be an author!!! 🥹🥰

Narrator: She published for the first time in 2015. She is still very excited about it.

Tesla to double Japan service center network as EV customer base grows

US automaker steps up after-sales support with eye on expanding market share
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Texturing Susie Carmichael in Substance Painter.
Lighting and rendering in Blender.

As always, trusting the process.

To continue my theme of the week of talking about the enshittification of KDP, let's talk about how Amazon ruined the best April's Fool Joke I ever did.

Not many people know that before I decided to focus on small town and military romance, I also wrote sci-fi romance.