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It's the day!
It's today!
THE GIRL IN THE GREEN SILK GOWN is available now!
WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER BOOKS?

If you buy this book, you feed my cats, and my cats are hungry. They are very, very hungry. Very hungry, and made of teeth. Please help me.
NO, SERIOUSLY.

All right. Well, this is the second Rose Marshall adventure; it explores my love of myth and schema; it delves into territory I haven't spent much time in before. And Rose goes to an airport, which is like, comedy gold.
ALL RIGHT, I'M SOLD.

That was easy.

I'M BASICALLY YOU.

Fair point.
WHERE SHOULD I BUY THIS BOOK?

Anywhere you can! Although it would be amazing if you could buy it this week, since we don't know how much damage the pre-release ARC leak did, and whether I get to write a sequel or not will be largely determined by sales.
WHO DID THAT SWEET, SWEET COVER ART?

That would be @Unicorn_Empire. I am just genuinely over the moon with how glorious it is.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD KNOW?

The book is dedicated to my beloved @tithenai and it will make her smile if you buy a copy. Making Amal smile is one of the best guaranteed ways to stave off entropy. True fact.

It's BOOK DAY!
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And now, some Wayward Children questions, for your edification and delight.
WHY DID YOU WRITE THE FIRST BOOK?

I wrote a song several years ago, called "Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves." It's the title song of my second "serious" CD, which got nominated for a Hugo Award. It was about all the girls from portal fantasies who got a raw deal.
When @LeeAHarris at @TorDotComPub asked me for a novella, I thought of that song, and how much I wanted to write the story that went with it, but how much I didn't want to be locked into those unhappy endings. The story followed.
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So hey:

Like most people, I like what I like. I like canned peas and candy corn and hard cheeses. I like plain chicken breasts with a little bit of salt. I like Diet Dr Pepper and I like blueberries and I like popcorn.
I also like things that aren't food! I like My Little Ponies (generation one) and I like ball-jointed dolls and I like collectible pins and I like blind boxes. I like big towels and too many pillows and American Girl doll furniture.
Maybe you like all these things, too! Maybe you like none of these things! Maybe, like most people, you're somewhere in the middle, positive toward some things, negative toward others, neutral toward many.
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THE NATIONAL GARDEN BUREAU HAS SPOKEN.
2019 IS THE YEAR OF THE PUMPKIN.
AS HIS PRIESTESS--HONORED BE HIS PATCH--THE GREAT PUMPKIN HAS SELECTED ME TO SHARE THE WISDOM OF GOURD AND GROUND.
We must plant if we are to reap. Even the Great Pumpkin--hallowed be his vines--needs time to ripen from seed to spectacle. Don't be down on yourselves if you aren't instantly perfect. Don't force yourself to produce when it isn't time.
Every field requires a time to lie fallow. We say "fallow fields" as if that means something useless, but really, it means rest and restoration. It means giving the soil time to heal. Be as kind to yourself as you are to the soil.
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Today I will share some anecdotes of my strange two or three years in this media world. It has been a strange loop.
I started off writing a legal blow over a decade and a half ago. The topic was government misconduct and the overcriminalization problem. My blog was one of the first to ever be cited in a judicial opinion. (2006)

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I don’t say that to brag, only to illustrate a point

- I’m OLD, have written about a lot of stuff, and have always lost readers.

That’s why the latest mutiny of new people (most MAGA) saying Trump made me or whatever, is silly.
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1/ I’m very passionate about #books. Every opportunity I get I try to buy some more books for my #antilibrary. However, over the last year, I have changed how I read books. I’d like to share the short story and process in the following thread:
2/ Story: I felt like I was stagnating. I read a lot but I didn’t think I read well. I’d forget almost all of what I read besides a few key points in a fairly short period of time. Being in fields that require consistent learning, I felt I needed to change my approach.
3/ I also researched retainment of learning and found the Ebbinghaus Curve otherwise known as the Forgetting Curve: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgettin…
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Day 585: Told Christian leaders there would be violence if GOP lost midterms. Hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico raised to almost 3k.
Day 586: The FBI contradicted him saying there's no proof about his assertions re HRC's email and China hacking. And also:
Day 587: Threatened to pull out of the WTO. Wants to fire Sessions after midterms. Threatened DOJ & FBI with involvement. And this happened:
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Today's thread

Once upon a time Hindi's Devanagari script was written in 2 different ways...

Then a few missionaries in Danish colony in Bengal and their rival press in Bombay changed it forever !

Read on.

#CBG_Thread
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If you read old manuscripts of Sanskrit / Hindi you would notice many strange characters in them. Characters no longer used in modern Hindi.

They were called the Calcutta style of Hindi. While the modern form is called Bombay style.

Why these names? Herein hangs a tale.

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In late 18th century, Baptist missionaries led by William Carey wanted to setup a press in Bengal for printing church literature locally. Denied permission by East India company who feared a backlash, they found haven in Danish colony of Serampore. 3/n
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#Today's story to #EndFamilySeparation Four months ago, Dad and 4-month-old entered at the Texas/Mexico border and requested #asylum. Dad and child were immediately separated and the baby put in ORR custody. #FamiliesBelongTogether
Dad was detained in a #Texas detention center where @RAICESTEXAS consulted. Dad accepted a deportation to be quickly reunited w/ his infant child. However, the Dad was deported & NOT his child. The now 8-month-old baby has been in ORR custody for 4 months. #EndFamilySeparation
The Mom and Dad now have once weekly Skype calls with their 8-month-old baby. That's right, folks. They Skype with an infant. #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether
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Today I'm going to tweet a bit on #mypainday about my experience with chronic pain, bc I think it can be hard to understand if you don't have it.

I'll add some drawings from my pain sketchbook too. Because pictures! ✏ A colour pencil drawing on plain paper, of a fallen field maple leaf with a grey pigeon feather threaded through it in two places, via holes on either side of the midvein. The leaf is yellow, brown, and green, in a state of partial decay.
I have chronic pain because I smooshed 2 arts of my spine - the lumbar part at the bottom, and the cervical part at the top (my neck). This affects the spinal nerves that control my legs + foot, & arms + hands. So those are the parts that hurt.
I manage my pain with the smallest amount of medication that is still effective on any given day, physio exercises, psychological exercises, & a supportive partner #mypainday
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