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After a week of rain, it’s bright and sunny today. Cold too. But while there was flooding in some parts of western Washington due to the rain, I was actually grateful for it. It melted all the snow. There are still a couple of patches of it, but mostly it’s gone. And that, quite frankly, makes me happy.
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As this is the last week of the month, I get to tell you about one of the books that I’ve written. This happens to be the book that’s on sale this month as well.
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Borrowed Time started off as a short story. I wrote it for Uncollected Anthology, for the issue “Spells Gone Awry.” It wasn’t until I was nearing the end of it that I realized that it wasn’t actually a short story but a novel. I came up with an ending, but I knew that it wasn’t satisfying.
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I always wanted to write the actual novel. Eventually, an opportunity came that allowed me to do that, so I did.
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Chapter one contains the majority of the short story. Just the end of it changed. 95% of it didn’t, though.
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I really like this novel. Yes, while I could possibly do a second in this universe, and I have ideas for what to do, I’ve never felt the inclination to do so.
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The novel is structured based on the nine lives of a cat. It’s all about what we sacrifice for what we know is right, as well as for our families. While there are some dark scenes in this novel, there’s also a lot of snark between the two sisters (from the POV of the cat, who’s the main character) as well as lighter times, as a human tries to navigate what it means to now run around on four limbs instead of two.
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Borrowed Time is available until the end of March for just $0.99 at the Knotted Road Press store. And if you’d like to read a sample of the novel, I’ve created one here:
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ION, I came down with a stomach flu last week, passed along to me from my lovely husband. (Not actually angry about it—generally speaking, I am the one who picks up things and passes them along to him.)
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What it has meant is that I’ve had a lot of time sitting on the couch reading and knitting.
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I finished my Melt the Ice hat, with the Star Wars rebellion symbols. However, I messed up the top of it, and I didn’t feel like going back and fixing it. So here’s an almost Melt the Ice hat.
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In addition, I started on this scarf some time ago. I didn’t knit on it consistently. I finally realized that I was tired of it and just wanted to be finished with it. So I bound it off, figuring that it was long enough.
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This scarf still needs to be blocked. However, I won’t do that until April.
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As I’ve mentioned before, I work much better with carrots than with sticks. In April, I’ll do the quarterly reconciliation for the business. I now give myself a BIG treat for doing the taxes. I’ve come to realize that buying knitting supplies is the perfect carrot. It’s something I wouldn’t necessarily just buy for myself, because it’s an extravagance. Yet, I’ll also use these supplies constantly.
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This month, I’m buying myself foam rubber mats that you can lock together. Something like this:
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And that’s it for me for this week. What are you currently working on?
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Los Angeles. The city that never sleeps.
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These stories take inspiration from those hard-boiled detectives of yore, with broken noses and steely eyes. The white knight you could rely on because the rest of the world had soured like a rotten apple. Even if he (or she) didn’t follow the rules.
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Or maybe because they broke them in order to see justice done.
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Come see what the MCM Syndicate has to say about these types of “heroes” as we enter our seventh year of publication.
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MCM – So Criminal, It’s Good.
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And now for something a little different...
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For the month of March, Borrowed Time, a contemporary fantasy stand-alone novel by Leah R Cutter, is on sale for $0.99!
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Nightmares of drowning crowd Merilee's sleep. Deep, dark, endless water.
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They must mean something. She is a witch, after all.
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When three men break into her house, Merilee casts a transformation spell to escape.
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However, after turning herself into a cat, she discovers she can't change back.
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Worse things threaten not just her, but her older sister.
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Possibly nine lives won't be enough when dealing with dark magic.
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Borrowed Time--a contemporary fantasy from Leah R Cutter--explores what it means to be family, sisters, as well transforming into a superb specimen of a feline.
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Come enjoy the twists and turns of magic and a skewed world that Leah R Cutter excels at bringing to life!
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