I remain alive, and as of June 13th am now the number of symmetries in a cube.

I will be at Trotcon.

Please contact me if you're there! (Or even if not, that's okay too.)

I might do an author party. I'll announce it with another post. Signal boost would be useful.

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(Tagging Administrative Angel since its sequel is ONLY in the book until September!)

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I recently finished 2 books:  The Worst of Bad Horse (described here) and Stupid Unicorn (a picture book).  Both will be available both at Bronycon, and by mail (which costs more because shipping).  (I might possibly have copies at Trotcon or Capclave this month, but I won't be selling them in the dealer's room.)

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BronyCon was a lot of fun, and most titles in the bookstore (not just PFP titles -- everybody's!) sold out.

Direct purchases will be available soon, but for the following two titles, we need to unload the remaining bookstore stock before we can make their direct purchasing links live.

The Worst of Bad Horse

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Awhile ago, I had the great idea to write something that was based on a true story. (Un)Fortunately, I have a liking for the writing style of Hans von Hozel, the greatest writer to have graced the many fandoms on fanfiction.net. Even more (un)fortunate was that My Little Pony was beyond his time.

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In case you weren't aware[1], Bad Horse does these amazing posts regarding the history of art and criticism leavened with insightful leaps from one field of study to the next. They are great fun and not one hundredth as dry as you might suspect. He was recently laboring on this amazing post regarding the

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The Worst of Bad Horse
Thanks to the tireless work of RBDash47¹, and to me being unemployed, I'm coming out with a big book at Bronycon.  It's 730 pages, with 54 stories, scripts, and poems. You've seen all these before, except for:

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Bad Horse's latest article brought up a lot of good points about common unintended themes in genre fiction, and when he got to Horror, the blood drained from my face. Here's what he said:

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And another three stories for today:

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NOTE: In the course of meeting so many people over a weekend, some names inevitably slip one's mind, no matter how hard one tries to remember. In such cases, names are replaced by question marks. If any owners of those names are reading this, by all means send me a reminder.

For a similar reason, these are presented out of chronological order.

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Day one. Pascoite is giving out free samples.

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That Princeton fan-fiction course that covered "The Magician and the Detective" finally posted my interview on their blog… 2 weeks after the course ended, so nobody read it.  But you can!  It was posted here, but no point going there.  You can’t leave comments there, and the slightly-improved version is right here:

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Apparently getting sick means that after I recover, I become more powerful productive.

I knew it was worth picking up the Anime Protagonist perk at level 1.

Today’s stories:

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Yesterday, I was thinking “Man, Bad Horse released another new story, but I’ve already got my review post done. Well, might as well read it and get started on the next set of Read It Now Reviews.” Then I realized there were a few recent stories I’d been putting off reading, that were all short, and one thing lead to another…

And now I’ve got a complete review set for today! Funny how that works.

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Back in April, I started on a set of Read It Now reviews. I ended up reading a couple stories for it, and then forgetting I had started a review set and never finishing it.

Today, as I went to read some recent stories, I realized that I had an unfinished review set, and as it wasn’t really quite timely, I merged it into this.

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Procrastination on writing creates a surprising amount of motivation to review stories.

Today’s stories:

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I've been a bit under the weather since Trotcon, but feeling better now.

This weekend I need to work on putting together some poni stuff for my niece (she's up here for her birthday), and my inability to do basic things makes that a bit difficult. So I may be delayed a few days on the Trotcon retro and the other long post I still really really want to share with y'all.

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Getting back into the swing of things! Five new stories, five new reviews, all in the span of just a couple hours of work. Glad to see a number of folks are writing new stuff, as I’m always happy to see things from folks I follow.

Today’s stories:

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Two days until the start of Everfree Northwest, but I leave for the Emerald City tomorrow. If any of you are going to be there and want to meet up, send me a PM and I’ll give you some contact information; I don’t have a smart phone, so the most reliable way of contacting me while I’m wandering around the convention is likely to be an actual, honest-to-god phone call.

I know, shocking.

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I was going to post another set of “Read It Now” reviews today, but the stories I was reading weren’t agreeing with me. So I figured I’d finish up this set of recommended story reviews, as I haven’t done one of these in a while.

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This was actually supposed to be Read It Later Reviews #50, but I just posted a Read It Now set yesterday and then Bad Horse came out with a story a day later. As this set had an empty space it in, Read It Later #49 got bumped down the line. So this set actually contains four older stories, plus Bad Horse’s new one.

I’m cheating a bit. Deal with it.

Today’s stories:

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