What an absolutely beautiful morning

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here's the opening of “Many Drops Make a Stream”)

My first book, Many Drops Make a Stream, is a queer fantasy adventure about a vigilante shapeshifter reluctantly teaming up with a seemingly normal human to fight a cult of memory-stealing mages. I’m hard at work on the sequel!

Thanks for doing this!

Many Drops Make a Stream is a queer fantasy adventure in which a shapeshifter vigilante must team up with a seemingly normal human on a rescue mission. Features memory-stealing blood mages, friendly rats, and at least one goose attack.

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See also this environmental storytelling of one bookstore’s humble quest to place all its Star Trek novels.

I treated myself to a visit to Daedalus Used Bookshop in Charlottesvile, VA. Reviews described it as “mazelike” and ”from an era when bookshops tried to pack as many books per square foot as possible,” so of course I had to go. Some of my favorite shelf labels:
#booksky

This one was my first thought

I’ve been on tumblr since 2012 and still haven’t seen half these posts.

Anyway here’s a recent favorite of mine.

I always thought this was the original cover!

New winner in the contest for “Most ominous sign seen out walking”

The shelter found these two in a Wal-Mart parking lot! Snuggliest cats ever—the only cats I’ve ever met who like (or tolerate) tummy rubs.

Blues learned the principle of “first come, first served” and was waiting by my chair for me to start work this morning.

I am not a heartless monster, so I picked him up to show him the lack of lap real estate. He tested the viability of chest-as-lap, but ultimately gave up.

He did not understand why I was not picking him up for lap time (he will not jump onto my lap)

The best part of winter is the cat snuggles

post the cover of the first book you are reading in 2025