Book Tube Real Talk Tag and Musing about Publishers and Booktube

This video was Patreon Patron only for a day to give them a chance to see it first, but as I knew I wasn't going to have the time intended to record a story as planned this is also the Sunday posting. Technically this is a bit of a story.

Original Tag Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuIil5h-vKk
Emmmabooks video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNYNlDt4WY

Publishers I work with in some fashion
THG StarDragon Publishing: http://www.thgstardragon.com
Pen It! Publications: http://www.penitpublications.com

Gaming sites and groups I work with in publishing/content
Dragon Hearts RPG: http://www.dragonheartsrpg.com
Dreaming Twilight (SL group)

=Interviews with illustrators, authors, and editors are intended to happen for those that wish to partake from Pen It! Publications, THG StarDragon Publishing, and Dragon Hearts. Once these are finished I may open up spots for others.

=booktube real talk tag=
- questions -
1. What's something nobody told you about booktube before you started your channel?
2. What is your opinion on “typical” booktube videos? (wrap-up’s, TBR’s, hauls, etc.)
3. What is an assumption you had about booktube before you joined? Was it proven to be correct, or not?
4. What is something you’ve done that has actually helped you grow your audience?
5. What is a common mistake you see new booktubers making, or one that you made?
6. What are your thoughts on working with publishers and sponsorships?
7. Do you think booktube is dying?
8. Tag your friends!


Tags
Illya Leonov: https://www.youtube.com/user/Melotah
Scribbler: https://www.youtube.com/user/ObabScribbler
Icarus Lunarguard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQH_cXGPvHmppHpbx13nGQ
PenIt! Publications: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaB_vnprv16-MJUWA3aLvZg

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Flash Fiction Fridays #9: Playfulness (A Selkies' Skins short story reading)

What if a man that courts and marries a selkie never takes her skin away but instead lets her wear or leave it as she pleases? What happens if he decides the skin needs company as much as he does? What could go wrong... or right?



"Playfulness" by Teresa Garcia (myself) centers around what life at Seal Point is like for David Valnarius after he and Kirsty Makay graduate from school and begin their lives together. The story of how Kirsty gains her skin is being told by the "Selkies' Skins" series of books. Book two is currently an ongoing project.



A fan sent me a copy of a Ballad about the Mari Lwyd to read. I have not had the chance to sit down with it, but it is in my two read and to record list. As it is not my own writing I'll need time to write up at least some discussion points for it.



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THG StarDragon Publishing

Attn: Teresa Garcia

PO Box 249

McCloud, CA 96057

USA



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Ame Reads: 170 Chinese Poems Reading #6

This somehow escaped being posted much earlier.

Podcasting upcoming

The Flash Fiction Fridays recordings will be turned into a podcast for the interested. It is my intent to have them on Google Play and iTunes. As time goes forward I hope to bundle a flash fiction, a review, and perhaps either a guest poem/story, depending on the week. Those interested in submitting their work for inclusion or shout outs are welcome to contact me. It is a fledgling, but springs from a comment long ago inquiring why I wasn't doing the library readings as a podcast.

What does this mean?

It means that when I post for the Flash Fiction Fridays entries there will be options posted to listen via the audio only podcast in addition to those that like having a video backdrop or prefer to stick with the Youtube channel.

How to subscribe to the feed

iTunes

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Flash Fiction Fridays #8: Playfulness (written) and Wikatcha (reading)

The below flash fiction is set in the Selkies’ Skins universe sometime after Kirsty and David have graduated, married, and started their life together. I have left it intentionally unclear as to exactly how long after graduation. It is long enough for a house in the once again village of Seal Point to be finished near the home Kirsty grew up in.

Playfulness

David rummaged in the impeccably clean pantry looking for his tinned fish. Kirsty was at the office doing whatever her father had called her in for. Her skin was another matter. She had left it to keep him company since she expected a boring day of paperwork and meetings. Said skin was very enthusiastic about staying home, causing mischief, and preventing him from being too sucked into his own pursuits.

Kirstyskin never liked hanging on a peg pretending to be a cloak, at least not since she’d gained enough strength to move around on her own. He may, or may not, have contributed to this. It was so hard not to spoil such a cute skin, especially when it so exuberantly communicated things Kirsty herself tried to be more adult and circumspect about. He still couldn’t understand why anyone in their right mind would hide a skin from the corresponding selkie, wife or not. Marsali’s husband had deprived himself and her of a great deal, in his opinion.

“Ork! Ork!” The skin attempted to whisper. The barking did not translate well into a whisper at all. She hauled up on her tail and clapped her flippers at him excitedly. Her front gaped open to reveal her smooth suede inside. Sparkling blue eyes glinted at him.

“I’m looking dear, I’m looking.” He sighed to himself. “I knew I shouldn’t have said the magic word…”

“Feesh! Feeeesh! Feeeeeeeesh?” The skin flopped down and rolled over and over around the kitchen behind him. How and what she filled herself with whenever she’d do this he had no clue. Kirstyskin did not exactly hold still long enough for him to ever satisfy his curiosity about that.

“Yes dear. I’m looking for our feesh.” David’s lips lifted in a smile that released his chuckle. “I will make sure you are fat and shiny when the rest of you comes home.”

“Feeeeeesh…” The rambunctious skin calmed herself and plopped a head on his foot, nibbling at his ankle through his socks.

“I’m not a fish, silly selkie skin.” His rummaging finally yielded fruit.

“Are. Wolffish.” She rumbled at him.

“Bad pun.” He grinned as he looked down at the very self satisfied smirk on the skin’s face. Kirstyskin blew an impish raspberry at him.

One can of little anchovies was still hidden. Unfortunately now she knew the hiding spot. It was just a matter of time before she’d sneak up there in the middle of the night with a chair. He’d have to consult Imp later for ideas on where he could hide Emergency Fish so he’d be more likely to have spares. David’s musing as he made his way to the corner he preferred to flop with her in was interrupted by a flying streak of white.

Said streak humped along the floor at top speed from the kitchen to the living room barking gleefully around her mouthful.

“I thought we were sharing!”

Laughter floated back to him and thumping started up the steps. His own laughter joined hers as he started running after her.




This story will be available to listen to next week on my Patreon, Youtube, and Soundcloud.
It was originally posted on my Patreon where it can be read for free there as well. https://www.patreon.com/posts/flash-fiction-26345888

Today's recorded flash fiction is the one posted last week. I read for you my retelling of the tale of Wikatcha.

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Ame's Bookshelf Review: Berkley Street by Ron Ripley

Book Review

Title: Berkley Street: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses (Berkley Street Series Book 1)

Author: Ron Ripley

Where to get: https://amzn.to/2Nxf1aW

Star Rating: 5

Age Rating (IMO): YA



This was a well done creepy story.  Parts of it did not hit me as hard as they should have. That may have to do with reading in bed with the heater going and surrounded by dogs though, so I was not given the solitude to fully appreciate all that had been intended to be scary. There were still several things that broke through though. Vivienne was one of those things that managed to get through the protection of doggie sentries. So did the explanation tale of how Carl came to become one of the ghosts.



Some are going to be confused and off-put by the way the story is arranged. There are times that flashbacks take place where we experience with the characters an important past event that would have made no sense if it were discovered in chronological order. They are clearly delineated though and the author does a good job of moving us back and forth as non jarringly as possible. I will certainly be reading more of this series.



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THG StarDragon Publishing

Attn: Teresa Garcia

PO Box 249

McCloud, CA 96057

USA



Email necessary?  Send me a note at ladyrainstardragon@hotmail.com but bear in mind that I have been having problems with it eating things sometimes from even verified senders.

Mythical Minstrelsy Volume Three is now also available on Amazon Kindle

Gather under the tree with the traveling bard while she recounts poetry and short stories centering around various mythical and magical creatures. Month by month her project grew as her supporters lent their ears. Here and there she shares some artwork, some snippets about her books, and even a little in the realms of meditation. This is the third year of her Patreon anthology, and this is arranged in month by month format. This anthology is a handy gathering of the year's work, not including the progress made in the "Selkies' Skins: Temple and Skinquest" manuscript which will be provided her patrons separately.

Although some images are in black and white others are in color. Even though they look good in black and white it does not do them justice. For the full effect of the art pieces it is suggested that you view on a color capable device.

Year four's collection ends in August 2019 which will also mark the beginning of year five.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R1T6GL3