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Approximately 40% of my writing process involves getting mad at the characters I made up, for doing things I made them do.

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Hey, the notes are funny, so what’s the harm in a reblog?

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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Me: I'm going to finish writing that chapter tonight.

Me: *Gets document opened, and spends the next four hours on Tumblr.*

Me: At least I tried.

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reading my own writing: boy, you sure like your commas, don’t you,

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Codex Blair Facebook Group!

Hey folks! I’ve created a Facebook group for fans of the Codex Blair series to get together, chat about urban fantasy books they like, ask questions about the book world and characters, and generally get to know me! Join it here!

Check it out!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/391503481201571/

#reading groups #facebook #facebook group #reader #reading #read #i love reading #i love books #book #books #bookwhore #bibliophile #booktube #bookblr

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GRAVE MISTAKE IS ALIVE!

Omigosh omigosh omigosh, it’s run around like a headless chicken time! Grave Mistake is alive and ready to cause some trouble! For a limited time it’s available for $0.99, so grab it while it’s hot!

Amazon US -> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MUBOQTG

Amazon UK -> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MUBOQTG

Amazon CA - > https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MUBOQTG

Amazon AU - > https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01MUBOQTG

Don’t forget the giveaway! http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/81aa78941149

What are people saying about this book? Check it out on Goodreads!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33805955-grave-mistake

“Lots of action, humor, great fantasy, sorcerer-type powers, talking ravens, (yep, talking ravens, it will make sense when you read the book), women in armor, and lots of kick butt fighting. It is my kind of fantasy novel!” - Montzalee Williams, Goodreads

“Grave Mistake was a refreshingly unique book written skillfully by Izzy Shows. This book had me captivated from the very first page. It has a perfect pace to it, following a unique plot. There are a few twists and surprises hidden within, that keep you glued to the page.“ - Ramona Plant, Goodreads

BLURB:

I am Blair Sheach. Screw up. Outcast. Wizard. My life will never be the same. Let's just say, new found powers do not a hero make, and I've never been an exception. It was supposed to be a simple case: find the client's deadbeat, cheating husband, collect money, and finally pay my rent. Turns out the wanker is a necromancer hell bent on destroying London. Turns out necromancers are only part of the problem in a city infested by vampires and demons. And magic cops aren't any better at cleaning them up than mundane ones. Then there's me, I'm no one special. Just the last line of defense. I'm out of luck and out of time. And to save my city, the decision I have to make is one I can't take back.

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Read the first six chapters for free! https://www.izzyshows.com/chapter-1

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Okay, who doesn’t want free books? Let’s be real for a second here. I love free books. I love free FANTASY books.

Thought y’all might want to be aware of the 135 books available on http://sffbookbonanza.com/freebooks/

P.S. One of my books is on there, The Fallen’s Crime, so you should definitely check it out.

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STOP 👏🏻 REPLACING 👏🏻 THE WORD 👏🏻 SAID 👏🏻

Do it as little as possible. FFS, every time I read some other word, I stop and think about the way they’re saying it. Like yeah, sometimes it’s cool to imagine the way a character is talking, but holy shit, you don’t want me to stop reading every other line, do you? Use them now and then, when the moment calls for it, but otherwise just use said.

IT’S AN INVISIBLE WOOOOOOOOOOOOORD.

#writing #amwriting #i love writing #i really do #but i don't want to hear about how a character extrapolated #like what does that look like #is she waving her hands around #rubbing her chin?#you should probably tell me those things too #but now i'm thinking about it instead of reading #pace yourself

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Get ready! Grave Mistake will be available on Amazon on January 24, 2017!

Read the first six chapters on izzyshows.com

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ARC Reviewers!

Hello, everybody!

I’m on the look out for ARC Reviews for Codex Blair: Grave Mistake. This is an urban fantasy novel set in London. Generally recommended for ages 18+ but I could conceivably see 16+ depending on the maturity level and tastes of the reader.

Send me a message if you’re interested!

I am Blair Sheach. Screw up. Outcast. Wizard. My life will never be the same. Let's just say, new found powers do not a hero make, and I've never been an exception. It was supposed to be a simple case: find the client's deadbeat, cheating husband, collect money, and finally pay my rent. Turns out the wanker is a necromancer hell bent on destroying London. Turns out necromancers are only part of the problem in a city infested by vampires and demons. And magic cops aren't any better at cleaning them up than mundane ones. Then there's me, I'm no one special. Just the last line of defense. I'm out of luck and out of time. And to save my city, the decision I have to make is one I can't take back.

#books #free books #reading #i love reading #urban fantasy #fantasy #london #ireland #ebooks #arc #advanced reader copy #free ebooks #dresden files #the dresden files #jim butcher

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Love it, go for it! I’d read the heck out of it. I’ve got a nonbinary character in my book who is kickass, not finding themselves, and very comfortable with who they are. They’re one of my favorite characters, very dear to my heart.

I think representation of struggling is important, because it’s what a lot of people go through on their road to discovery, but I think it’s equally important to have strength representation. Representation of normalcy, representation that soothes the anxiety and creates a character people look up to and want to be.

One day I am going to write an #OwnVoices book. And it’s going to have an agender protagonist who exclusively uses they/them pronouns. And it’s not going to be a big deal. It’s not going to be a coming out novel. It’s not going to be a novel about gender discovery.

That’s just who they are. They’ve already figured this out. Everyone else needs to catch up.

Then they get to go save the world and kiss a cute girl or smth.

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The official cover for my book, Grave Mistake. I cannot put into words how happy I am with this!

#Book Lover #booklover #bookworm #book #books #writing #writer #writers #grave mistake #fantasy #urban fantasy #magic #vampire #shifter #writersoftumblr

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A lot of the research points to the fact that rankings are not vanity metrics. They affect how visible your book is on Amazon, which would affect your accessibility. Rankings are determined by the amount of sales you make, and the amount of time that passes between those sales.

That isn’t to say that YOU shouldn’t do a preorder, you have a wide enough fanbase that your preorder is likely to do very well, which means your ranking will do well. I just wanted to point that out.

Preorders can have both positive and negative affects. It depends on the author, and what they can bring to the table.

Some people say that preorders on Amazon are not a good idea because of the way Amazon has changed it's algorithms -- having a huge spike of sales in one day isn't better than having a steady flow of sales for a few weeks. Are you still going to do preorders for TSC?

Yes, I am. I don’t care much about Amazon rankings. They’re mostly vanity metrics. I just want my book to be accessible to readers.

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Finding I have a lot of things I want to rant about but no energy to do the ranting. My life lately.

#me #emotionally drained #ranting

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Helvegen

‘Helvegen’ with Siroj. Make up & styling by Machinefairy.

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Are people deliberately killing lesbians or trying to impart diversity and then killing them afterwards without really considering the implications? Gunmachine had a nice lesbian couple that survived and did well, as I recall. Not an expert, mind.

I’m not sure how serious this question was.

Obviously people are not deliberately killing lesbians. There’s probably a very small set of anti-lgbt writers out there who set out with the idea of ‘put the lesbian character in the book so we can punish and kill her to set an example.’

The rest of the lesbian characters we see dying in books(and the likelihood of dying as a lesbian in a book goes through the roof if a romance is involved) are the effect of either the subconscious effect of society on a person or what you said, forcing themselves to diversify their cast and potentially subconsciously hating or resenting the characters for having to railroad them into something other than what they had designed.

Because they don’t know how to write diversely and so they just sprinkle it on like a topping after the character has already been made.

So you can see that the problem is not people who set out to murder lesbians in their book or movie or what-have-you world, the problem is people who wade into writing a minority group without having educated themselves on how that minority group has been mortrayed in the media and how the minority group feels about that.

It’s like writing the absentee black father trope. Or magical negroe trope. Or fetishing skin colors that aren’t white by describing them with food. Coffee colored skin is just…bad. Just stop it. Those tropes need to be lit on fire. So does the trope of lesbians dying all the damn time.

If you want to read more on the topic, Writing With Color has an excellent directory post: http://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/post/118799404887/asexuality-and-gender-identities-round-up and they also have one particular post that explains the issue very well, as well as other issues that frequently accompany it. http://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/post/141618843977/femslash-and-interracial-relationships

#writing #writing queer characters #writing queer #writing lesbian characters #lgbt #lgbtq

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