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Skeptical about this #bluemonday business, but have some Christmas photos I meant to post last month and forgot to. Christmas lights makes everything look good. #christmas #christmaslights #christmastree #latergram

Today was bright and cold, the sort of day you can feel the air on your teeth when you breathe in. Went into town for groceries, decided to go for a brisk walk through Merrion Square first before it closed. Obligatory photo of Oscar Wilde. #merrionsquare #merrionsquarepark #dublin #georgiandublin #oscarwilde #oscarwildestatue #nofilter

Book no.3 of 2020: QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS by... myself. 🤣 (Reread during copyedits, so, yes, I’m counting it.) . I was going to skip this until the finished printed copies arrive, but then I realised that while I’ve shared other people’s photos of QUEEN ARCs, I’ve never taken one of my own ARC! . When it showed up in the post, I ripped open the packet, held it, and immediately started crying. I’ve read so many other stories of writers holding their books and crying, but I still didn’t expect it to happen to me. It’s a difficult feeling to describe, seeing the words in almost-done book form. . I don’t think I’ll ever be able to properly convey how poor QUEEN’s odds were during the querying process. I queried about 60 agents, and at one point had a 48% request rate. And yet it never crossed that final hurdle. I did a huge R&R from August 2016 to May 2017, gutting a lot of the first half and knitting the changes into the second. I shelved it in January 2018. In April 2018, The O’Brien Press offered on it. (I might go more in depth on both querying and the R&R at some point, if people are interested.) . I really shouldn’t have been surprised that I cried so hard. I submitted to OBP on a whim, knowing they were looking for more YA but feeling it might be too fantasy and too queer for them. I don’t know where I’d be if I hadn’t sent those three chapters one last time. #queenofcoinandwhispers #qocaw #writersofinstagram #bookstagram #instabooks #queerya #queerfantasyfiction

Book no.2 of 2020: EQUAL RITES by Terry Pratchett. Part of the Discworld Readalong created by @melindasalisbury and @ldlapinski. The first Witches book, and introduction to Granny Weatherwax. If you love Terry Pratchett’s work, you know how funny, searing, and insightful it is. EQUAL RITES is slightly misleading—while Esk gaining wizard magic is the instigating plot point, the book instead focuses on Granny Weatherwax, who will show up again, while Esk barely makes a reappearance. The book is also less focused on Esk’s magical education, more concerned with showing the battle of the sexes in older characters. . My very first introduction to Discworld was through Death in MORT, but I’m fully prepared to embrace the Witches as I continue with the readalong. #discworld #discworldseries #equalrites #terrypratchett #terrypratchettdiscworld #grannyweatherwax #discworldwitches #discworldwizards #discworldreadalong #bookstagram #instabooks #readersofinstagram

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