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Sep. 6th, 2020 02:39 pmLooking for a book sale? You've got until EOD tomorrow to get Queen of Swords Press titles, ebook and print, from our website. Since it's Duluth Superior Pride weekend, we're having a sale! Enter code DSPRIDE20 at checkout from the Queen of Swords website to get 15% off all orders over $3. You can also bid on a signed package of my books in the charity auction to support next year's Pride celebration as well as their year-round programming.
I've been enjoying a lowkey weekend. We had a friend over for dinner on Friday night and started watching "The Frankenstein Chronicles." This features Sean Bean as a syphlitic Victorian detective trying to solve a series of gruesome child murders with the assistance of Joseph Nightingale, who is is portrayed here as one of the first Black Bobbies. Mary Shelley is a character, as are several other historical figures. The supernatural elements may be real, may be science, may be the result of syphilis. Interesting stuff, so far!
Yesterday, my friend Sheila and I went to Big Stone Mini Golf and Sculpture Garden in Minnetrista (about 40 or so from Minneapolis) and had a blast. Each of the obstacles are also sculptures and are surround by art and the occasional chicken or horse. There is also a walking tour to be had around the sculptures in the surrounding fields. It is quite lovely and a lot of fun! We also managed a stop off at the Minnesota Arboretum Apple House, which is a farm store for apples and other produce grown at the Arb as well as some local and not so local products. I'll be canning apple sauce tomorrow!
Today has included lots of cooking and meal prep since it looks like the day job is fixing to be a trial next week. But there will be leftover jambalaya and cornbread and homemade pizza crusts and such to eat, which will help. I'm also getting in a decent amount of writing, which always helps. Progress is being made on Blood Moon, I'm working on a new short story, I just turned in an article and I'm working on the next two chapters of my novel in progress for my Patreon. And I recorded two short videos, one for MultiverseCon next month and the other for St. Cloud Virtual Pride in 2 weeks. Next weekend, I'll be recording a new episode of the Glitchy Pancakes Podcast, in which I'll be talking about the history LGBTQ speculative fiction with the awesome hosts, Jesse and Rob. Links as soon as I have them.
Tomorrow, we get a morning trip to the sold out Not the Fine Arts Exhibit at Not the Minnesota State Fair, which should be fun. Since the Fair was cancelled, we have all kinds of pop-up events around town and online so that people can get their fix (the Fair is a HUGE deal here and a big driver of the local economy so cancelling it is really rough on multiple levels - which is not a commentary on whether or not cancelling it was necessary. I think South Dakota is making yet another insanely bad call by not cancelling theirs). In the meantime, here's this crop art.
I've been enjoying a lowkey weekend. We had a friend over for dinner on Friday night and started watching "The Frankenstein Chronicles." This features Sean Bean as a syphlitic Victorian detective trying to solve a series of gruesome child murders with the assistance of Joseph Nightingale, who is is portrayed here as one of the first Black Bobbies. Mary Shelley is a character, as are several other historical figures. The supernatural elements may be real, may be science, may be the result of syphilis. Interesting stuff, so far!
Yesterday, my friend Sheila and I went to Big Stone Mini Golf and Sculpture Garden in Minnetrista (about 40 or so from Minneapolis) and had a blast. Each of the obstacles are also sculptures and are surround by art and the occasional chicken or horse. There is also a walking tour to be had around the sculptures in the surrounding fields. It is quite lovely and a lot of fun! We also managed a stop off at the Minnesota Arboretum Apple House, which is a farm store for apples and other produce grown at the Arb as well as some local and not so local products. I'll be canning apple sauce tomorrow!
Today has included lots of cooking and meal prep since it looks like the day job is fixing to be a trial next week. But there will be leftover jambalaya and cornbread and homemade pizza crusts and such to eat, which will help. I'm also getting in a decent amount of writing, which always helps. Progress is being made on Blood Moon, I'm working on a new short story, I just turned in an article and I'm working on the next two chapters of my novel in progress for my Patreon. And I recorded two short videos, one for MultiverseCon next month and the other for St. Cloud Virtual Pride in 2 weeks. Next weekend, I'll be recording a new episode of the Glitchy Pancakes Podcast, in which I'll be talking about the history LGBTQ speculative fiction with the awesome hosts, Jesse and Rob. Links as soon as I have them.
Tomorrow, we get a morning trip to the sold out Not the Fine Arts Exhibit at Not the Minnesota State Fair, which should be fun. Since the Fair was cancelled, we have all kinds of pop-up events around town and online so that people can get their fix (the Fair is a HUGE deal here and a big driver of the local economy so cancelling it is really rough on multiple levels - which is not a commentary on whether or not cancelling it was necessary. I think South Dakota is making yet another insanely bad call by not cancelling theirs). In the meantime, here's this crop art.