@tommock
Indie SFF/horror author & editor: proofreading & dev editing (he/him) THE LONG NIGHTS is a #1 Best Seller in Contemporary Fantasy, Vampire Thriller, and more. SPFBO8 semi-finalist & 2021 Indies Today Awards: Runner-Up in Horror https://linktr.ee/TomMock
The President could fire Noem. If the President will not fire Noem, and Tillis feels so strongly that she should be removed, Tillis can help to impeach and remove the President.
Tillis will not do this, however, because Tillis does not care about these things. This is about his image.
Itβs always extremely boring to see a white man complaining yet again about people disagreeing with him online.
Imagine the soft, coddled life to be so outraged when faced with the modest accountability. π€¦ββοΈ
I donβt actually expect thereβs anything I can do - itβs cholesterol related, but I have a family history of really high cholesterol despite lots of dietary intervention. I just won a genetic lottery π
timeline cleanse
My cover for #4 of The Peril of the Brutal Dark! The first issue is out TOMORROW so make sure you pick up a copy
Sensational work!
Saturated fat π
For some people it may just be theyβre lactose intolerant
Sad kitten
The nutritionist wants to take my cheese away
All my novels will be included as part of the @Smashwords Read an Ebook Week March sale.
Including this one.
(Thanks again for the beautiful encouraging mini-review)
This was an instant favorite from everyone on the journal π
In The Mood For Love tribute poster
Happy Valetines to my fellow
In The Mood For Love girlies!
A screenshot from reddit depicting the question "What is the difference between being a writer and being unemployed" and answer "You wouldn't be unemployed. You would be self employed with no income".
i have never been this accurately disrespected.
5 more days until this #itchbundle of SFF Friendship books (and, unfortunately, the concept of friendship) are gone forever!
Sounds great to me. Anything that fits the genre is fun.
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The prose is competent and engaging, the voice is terrific, and the dystopian steampunk setting comes alive. Itβs done enough for me to read on. Iβm in.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...
I want to know more about our MC and this world, and Iβm curious about how sheβs gotten out of the terrible situation she ended ch1 in (if she did get out), not to mention my anticipation of the queer romance turn (always welcome).
My critique here can only be as pointed as they may seem because there is so much working so well in this opening that I'm taking every detail in and seriously thinking about it.
While a more concise, active start with more pointed establishing details would have made this an out and out triumph for me, itβs still an engaging beginning with a compelling, flawed MC who has been through a great deal in her short life.
Our MC has been with this group a while, we learn, but not everyone survives long, and thatβs reason to dissociate from any newcomers, but still, something to add more context to these people would have been nice for me.
Character details are hard to come by. There are almost no names to speak of, and the other vagabonds are reduced to a βgirlβ or a βboyβ whether or not we hear about their expressions.
These things are just barely hinted at. I feel I understand more about the establishment magic users with their white flashes of deadly magic, perhaps because they seem straightforward enough.
Our vagabond gang are all young, most much younger than 20. I donβt know why theyβre all so young, but itβs interesting. I would have liked to understand more about them and why theyβre driven to this deadly peril.
In place of these physical details that keep us locked on our MCs immediate experience, I found myself wanting more grounding in the context of what is happening and who is doing it and why.
All the particulars slow the pace and begin to feel repetitive: the danger of the environment, the fear of a deadly fall, the need to succeed.
Itβs absorbing stuff, but as it goes on the story begins to drag. The leap finally comes. The action is full of grounding, active details, tho maybe just a little too full.
The narration is maybe a little overwritten. We wait a good while for something to finally happen. Weβre ready to jump, but the jump is put off in favor of commentary from our MC that is a little more style than establishing substance.
