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    Pretty Notebooks

    My wife got me these lovely little composition notebooks a couple of months ago, and suddenly I know what they're for! Meet our next three projects in development.
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    Question about 'growing' my sense of humor.

    Fun fact: I've been a progression raider and have played WoW and SWTOR and console games for decades, and I have no idea what the looking up thing is. Of course, I usually tank or heal. I'm really terrible DPS. I can talk at length about kneecaps and loinclothes, though.
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    Elven race / elves - what do you like about them?

    Ours are generous and loving with their time. Not much money in a rabbit Hutch, but very high emotional intelligence. One of our younger hutch jacks, the ones that can live with the majority female - they're trans - has 5 girlfriends and at seventeen he's juggling well. Our rabbits don't have...
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    Elven race / elves - what do you like about them?

    Just a wee aside squee. Can you imagine the lot of us just taking over a whole row in Artists' Alley? My better halves might even get my butt to a show if that kind of bribery was thrown down to tempt me. ;)
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    Elven race / elves - what do you like about them?

    We have rabbits, too! Strongly matriarchal, the majority of them tend to be sex workers. We call them and the other 44 types of shape shifters 'therian,' which is the best term for animals that happen to turn into people. Rabbits are just particularly pretty people. And there are reasons~. ;)
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    Elven race / elves - what do you like about them?

    I'm Irish so that was our launching point. I'm also a pain in the ass. From that, we get our sidhe and other fae species and races. And then I get to screw with it. ;) Both of these are from Faerie Rising: The First Book of Binding. I'm long-winded and a show-off. You new folks have been...
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    Question about 'growing' my sense of humor.

    There are so many different kinds of humor out there, and we all react differently to them. My parents were from New Jersey. Dry and sarcastic and I can flay flesh to the bone with words alone. 2nd generation American Irish. I normally level a strong sense of depreciating humor at myself...
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    Writing in different languages

    Gotta admit, no one related to me by blood has read our books, including my parents, but considering what we write I think I'm good with that.
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    Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?

    Use away. Also, always laugh at your own jokes. We drop one-liners like birdseed at a wedding. Or maybe the mic... at the wedding. But! that is how we get masterworks like this. ~~~ “What?” Etienne sounded shocked. “How?” He had apparently not overheard Jessie mention it at the Theatre...
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    Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?

    Just no, "That's what she said," being operated without a license. That's some powerful silliness. Now, full disclosure, I do it all the time, but as we know I am a whacko and generally operate like someone left the gate open.
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    Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?

    And this one was pure gallows humor. ~~~ They came to the end of the row of vines—and ran right into a pair of demons. Before the demons could call out, Fitz grabbed his flask and flung his hand out with a Word of Command, and they both shrank down, into… Wasps? Really? The wasps attacked...
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    Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?

    The vast majority of our humor happens spontaneously. It's often found during gisting and outlining - yeah, two different processes lol - so it could be argued that we also have a lot planned out before I open a new Word file. This one was planned. ~~~ The boy nodded, a sudden confidence of...
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    Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?

    For authoring a series that's been described as "dark" and "gritty," I write a lot of humor. My mom was a satirist and my dad was that combination of funny and charming that meant he never met a speeding ticket he couldn't talk his way out of. He and my mom both started out as first responders -...
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    LAUNCH DAY

    Naw, just smarter than the average mama bear.
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    Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

    Ours mostly points people where they need to go. We've seen him in every book so far. He's going to get more involved fairly soon, though.
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