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Outsourcing

April 20, 2021April 16, 2021 by Beth

How much writing or editing can I do in the span of time it takes me to do this? As I work on the cover for the last Snakesblood book, and the deadline looms dangerously near with neither the cover art nor the editing completed, that same thought keeps coming… Read the rest...

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Tea review: Tea is for Texas Top O’ the Morning Irish Breakfast tea

April 13, 2021April 5, 2021 by Beth

The morning after Easter, I found myself too groggy to get going. Most mornings, I have an idea of what I want to start my day with. Mellow and spicy? Fruity and bright? Hints of chocolate? Herbal? That morning, all I really wanted was to be awake. Instead of picking,… Read the rest...

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Chance encounter (doll photos)

April 6, 2021March 3, 2021 by Beth

After I shared the process of making Rune’s head, I was ruminating on how I didn’t have any of my various doll photos where people could see them, aside from sharing them on Instagram. That’s fine, and kinda what the platform is for, but sometimes I think back to the… Read the rest...

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Making book stamps because why not

March 30, 2021March 10, 2021 by Beth

Either the best or worst thing about being an author is I’m blessed–or doomed–to be the #1 biggest fangirl of the stories I write. Needless to say, when combined with my penchant for crafts, this becomes dangerous. I like book stuff. Swag. Bookmarks, stickers, decals, notebooks, postcards, jewelry, charms, pins.… Read the rest...

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Learning to sculpt

March 23, 2021March 2, 2021 by Beth

As much as I’ve enjoyed collecting dolls to make into characters from my stories (something I don’t share here quite as often as I should, given how well blog posts are suited to sharing images of what I’m working on) I’ve always found it hard to fit the look of… Read the rest...

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Tea review: Adagio Cream

March 16, 2021March 1, 2021 by Beth

It feels like I’m running behind on everything, lately, so it’s not much of a surprise that I haven’t had time to sit and savor a cup of new tea for a while. As a result, I’m still working my way through some I got last year and still haven’t… Read the rest...

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I tried NaNoWriMo in February–here’s how it went.

March 9, 2021March 1, 2021 by Beth

Spectrum Blade was supposed to be done at the end of 2020. For reasons you probably don’t have to guess at, the biggest of which being… well, 2020, that didn’t happen. Then I’d wanted to finish it in January, but January needed to be spent preparing for the release of … Read the rest...