and BOOM just signed up. :D

Good luck! Will sign up!

And I loathe every one of them.

Hard same. SOOOOOO sick of these asshole billionaires.

god freaking dammit. I breathed a shallow sigh of relief when Netflix was going to buy Warner (lesser of two evils) and I already cancelled Paramount and told them why (f*cking ellisons...ughhhhhhh). And now here we are.

godspeed to you and yours in Chicago. Absolutely phenomenal work on the ground, though I can only guess at how utterly heinous it was, dealing with that shit.

I mean...doesn't seem so, but that's from MY non-heterosexual perspective.

lol

Well, thank you!

I am cisfemale though I skew gender nonconforming. Whatevs. As long as you find a bit of joy in each day and may random acts of kindness infuse us all.

Cheers!

21/ Anyway. Editors are good to have. Skilled editors are even better. And this book would really have benefited from one.

Ah, well. Onward to the next read!

20/ So I wonder about this book--because it's, like, 12 in a series and maybe it's doing all right, does the writer not get edited anymore? Just proofread? That's sad if that's the case, because it could be so much stronger and smoother with a skilled edit and readers would get a better story.

19/ A skilled editor would know how to help the writer build tension in a way that isn't clunky or weird--and a lot of times, strong dialogue is a good way to do that and to open possibilities for readers to wonder what's up without an overarching narrator interjecting what to think.

18/ But the MC makes it seem like this is actually a paranormal cozy mystery with the now consistent chapter endings of "something BAD is coming!" and "My little town is in danger!" (and no, it isn't a paranormal cozy--though it seems to be trying to be one.)

17/ and it doesn't make a clear connection. Events happen. You can be a little put out by this display by the two dickheads, but the town knows they're dickheads, so they'll just break up the fight and tell them to get lost. No "storm is coming." Even the injury thing isn't indicative of "a storm."

16/ Based on an argument between 2 dickheads, the entire town is now going to be affected badly?

So then there's a suspicious accident at the festival and one of the assholes is injured. Okay, NOW start wondering about the fight. But the constant "a storm is coming!" is overplaying your hand. ...

15/ And stop the weird hype phrases to build tension.

The book opens at a fall festival and there's some argument between two of the town assholes. Okay, good. Interesting. But like 2 pages after this argument, the main character is all, "something terrible is coming to my small town!"

Really?