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07 Mar #ChthonicThursday: Tuonetar

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Tuonetar is the Queen of the Underworld in Finnish mythology, and I promised you we'd talk about her when we saw her daughter Kalma, who's tasked to prevent the dead from escaping their tombs. She brews one kick-ass beer, and she's today's profile on my...

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29 Feb #ChthonicThursday: Kalma

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Kalma's name, the Finnish goddess associated with death and decay, possibly means "The Stench of Corpses," which is enough of a declaratory statement in itself. Narratives revolving around her, often find her lingering in graveyards and cemeteries so much that the Finnish word for graveyard,...

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17 Feb Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island

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Following the rejection I got to my query letter on Valentine's Day, yesterday I got a much more polite one. Things are progressing fast and I need to move my ass because I'm running out of books to give my Patrons, especially since I endeavour...

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15 Feb George MacDonald’s Lilith

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"too long for traditional publishing", and on Saint Valentine's day nonetheless! Yeah, this rubbed me the wrong way a little, since I'm perfectly within the boundaries of the word count recommended for my genre and hey, if you like the project we can trim it,...

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09 Feb The Shrimp-Prince

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I received a lovely rejection yesterday, detailing why the agency can't undertake representation of my project and prompting me to submit more works in the future. I know it might be a form and all, but it was a kind form nonetheless. Back to business, this...

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09 Feb The Shrimp-Prince

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I received a very nice rejection, yesterday, detailing why the agency can't undertake representation of my project and prompting me to submit more works in the future. I know it might be a form and all, but it was a nice form nonetheless. Back to business,...

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02 Feb The Annotated Hound of the Baskervilles

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Late-night rejection! A classic in Gothic fiction even if it doesn't intend to be in that genre, I couldn’t not include this in our collection on Patreon, since I pay homage to its turning point: “the deck is marked by scratches, powerful, heavy scratches three inches...

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02 Feb The Queen of Darkness

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Another rejection, another batch of pages for my Patrons to read, and this time it's an original translation of two short, magical tales by Grazia Deledda. Grazia Deledda was an Italian novelist, born on September 27, 1871, in Nuoro, Sardinia, and the only Italian woman to...

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30 Jan The Wishing Torch

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Early morning rejection! I'm querying for an agent to represent my Gothic Novel and, as you know by now, I gift an eBook to my Patrons every time one of these agents turns down my request for representation. I'm in a cheerful mood, this week --...

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26 Jan The Annotated Wind in The Willows

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This eBook comes following a rejection I got yesterday, and since it was the second one in the same day I decided to give you one of my favourite, if not my favourite book of all times. This version of the book comes from the...

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