@stevendbrewer@wandering.shop

The door opened and a young blonde women stepped out, wiping her eyes.
"Next," called a kindly female voice from within the office. From a line of distraught girls that that extended down the hallway, another one stepped inside, and closed the door.
"What's going on?" Dr. Baxter asked, standing at the administrative assistant's desk.
"Oh," Alan said. "It's counseling,"
"Counseling?"
"Well," he said, shaking his head. "After those last exams, it's more like 'consoling.'"

#wss366

The thing that you don't understand about people who voted for the Leopards-Eating-People's-Faces-Party is that they really really like to see people's faces getting eaten by leopards.

@wss366 is a daily prompt that aims to offer an ordinary word with multiple meanings that you can use to write a very short story or story fragment. Or feel free to share a fragment from a work-in-progress. Tag your post #wss366 so we can see your contribution!

Ooh. Someone must have bought a copy of *senokulvitre*! It's Amazon rank went from 9,538,614 to 195,631. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491276940 Whoa! They bought a copy of *Premitaj Floroj* too! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1477567267 Woohoo!

I had a great time at #Boskone! https://stevendbrewer.com/boskone-mostly-hits-one-miss/

I posted this to LinkedIn: I suspect that many businesses, that have been largely supine in the face of the destruction of the institutions of the United States, are going to discover that they actually depended on those institutions to ensure a level playing field. The people that will be running things going forward will be picking the winners and losers. Get ready to start losing.

Ooh! I had a wonderful conversation with @LJ at the #SFWA table. We're practically neighbors! WHO KNEW!?

My last #Boskone panel, *Fantasy Beyond Swords and Sorcery*, is this morning at 10am. After that, I'll hang out at the SFWA table for another hour or two, then pack up the table and drive home. It's been a good Con.

#WordWeavers SC POV: Who was your first love/crush?

From Lady Momoire's Journal (writing about Revin):

It seems like a such a long time from last year when I was still a little girl. Now, with all of the experiences I've had in the past year, I feel so different.
Everywhere I look — everything I see — reminds me of that special someone. When I awake in the morning, there is only one person I'm thinking of. And when I go to sleep at night, there's only one face I see when I close my eyes.

There are three sequel novellas to *Revin's Heart*: *Devishire!*, *Campshire!*, and *Ecorozire!*. They have not yet been scheduled for publication. To find out when they are released, you can subscribe to my monthly mailing list. https://author-sdbrewer.micro.blog/subscribe/

"What d'ya need, Chief," said a burly man wearing overalls in the front room.
"I'd like to place an order for 10 barrels of your Weaselspit lager," Revin said. "We'd like to set up a regular delivery on Mondays and Fridays."
"Whoa, Chief," the man said. "That's a lot of beer. Barrels are 150 miners each."
"Here's 8 reggies," Revin said.

#wss366 (from Devishire!)

After one of my panels, someone brought a book up to me to sign. I was all excited. But then I discovered they thought I was "Steve Brewer" who is a mystery author in Las Vegas. I was forced to admit that if I signed the book, I would be merely defacing it.

#ScribesAndMakers Tell us about yourself and your creative work.

I'm an author of LTBGTQIA+ SFF. I have two books out now, a fluffy military space opera "Better Angels" and a steampunk fantasy adventure with pirates and airships and a trans protagonist, "Revin's Heart". I have a cozy dark fantasy coming out soon called "A Familiar Problem" about a young man, who is supposed to get a familiar, but instead is taken as the familiar by a powerful demon, who starts to train him up: But for what?

*Lady Cecelia's Captivity* is Part 3 of *Lady Cecelia's Journey*, a sapphic romantasy road story. It has not yet been scheduled for release, but if you subscribe to my monthly mailing list, you can receive updates when it appears. https://author-sdbrewer.micro.blog/subscribe/

They reached the middle of the mill complex by noon. When the barge slipped forward into the next lock, they saw a party of men standing nearby. One was an extremely large and muscular man, dressed well, flanked by four guards. A squirrelly looking man pointed out Kasseh and Cecelia to the expressionless well-dressed man. Cecelia recognized the squirrelly fellow from the factory: he had been one of the other workers. The large man flipped him a coin, then stepped forward to their wagon. #wss366

My colleague Michelle Trim, who co-chaired my university's task force on generative AI, is doing an April 6 presentation for Straw Dog Writers Guild about effects of AI on writers: https://strawdogwriters.org/post/faking-it-and-breaking-it-generative-ai-and-its-implications-for-writers-a-straw-dog-craft-workshop-with-michelle-trim

The #Boskone fan tables are open!

The #SFWA fan table is set up at #Boskone.

She hobbled to the door. A young man was there.
"Pardon me," he said. "Did you call for some help?"
He handed her the paperwork from the agency.
"Bless me, why yes!" she said, delighted. She put her glasses on and peered at the paperwork. "Mr. Thyme, is it?"
"You can call me Justin." (2/2)

Martha had become practically an #invalid in her home. She looked at three days worth of dirty dishes piled up in the sink and dreaded standing at the sink to wash them. She had called a service for help, but no-one had come.
She was just about to start when the doorbell rang. (1/2) #wss366