Prompt for most of these is either “[NAME] working for mary kay” or “[NAME] working for mary kay with a pink cadillac.” Will usually be pretty obvious which is which.
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To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I plan to drop new episodes for this serial every Sunday in the Kindle Vella store for the foreseeable future. To learn more about Vella, keep reading.
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Out of ideas, so here, read about a wacky moment in aviation.
New Episode for Hunter Healer King
To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I plan to drop new episodes for this serial every Sunday in the Kindle Vella store for the foreseeable future. To learn more about Vella, keep reading.
Continue reading “New Episode for Hunter Healer King”Happy Fall! Check Out These Book Deals!
This September, I’m participating in AetherCzar’s Based Book Sale. AetherCzar (Hans G. Schantz) has graciously included Slaying a Tyrant in his sale. As usual Hans pulls together dozens of indie and small-press titles, which emphasize fun and escapism over Serious Messages and the grinding concerns of the real world, all on sale or for free. I hope you can find something you like here.
If you are on bookfunnel, you might also enjoy this Sweet Paranormal Freebies giveaway on bookfunnel. My book Marrying a Monster is one of the freebies.
Happy Reading!
Weird Wednesday: Cement Batteries
I’m pretty brain-dead right now from a lingering sinus illness, so, here, have an article about some MIT dudes imagining whole-house batteries and totally failing to take the fire hazard into account:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/02/mit_concrete_battery/?td=rt-3a
Midjourney Monday: The Emerald City of Oz
I prompted a bunch of Oz-themed images about a year ago, so I thought I’d compare and contrast those with the most recent ones I’ve gotten out of Midjourney.
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To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I plan to drop new episodes for this serial every Sunday in the Kindle Vella store for the foreseeable future. To learn more about Vella, keep reading.
Continue reading “New Episode for Hunter Healer King”Weird Wednesday: Explaining the Fan Casting for P&P
Let me just pause and say: I’m not covering Mr. Collins here, because I can’t think of any choices I like. (My only guiding principle would be: “as much unlike David Bamber as possible.”) I’m not covering the other four Bennet sisters because it seems like pretty much every version manages to come up with acceptable if not necessarily great versions of Jane, Lydia and whichever of Kitty and Mary are included. Ditto the Lucases, the Hursts, Anne De Bourgh and Georgiana Darcy. Where these characters are concerned, I’m open to anyone who could be a plausible relative (if relevant) to the characters I’ve mentally cast.
For accompanying pictures, and accompanying disclaimers of disinterest in making actor demographics perfectly match the book character demographics, see Monday’s post. Please note that I namecheck some pretty obscure actors from older versions below, feel free to search-fu their names.
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Today we have a bunch of contemporary actors in Regency dress, as generated by Midjourney and cleaned up by me. I will invite you to guess who I was casting in which Pride and Prejudice role. Yes, some of them are not very good likenesses, and no I am not going to reroll in Midjourney again. Yes, very few of them are in the age bracket now that the characters were in the story. No, I don’t really care. Yes, a couple of them have been in Pride and Prejudice before, and no, I am not casting them in the same roles.
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