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Author of whimsical tales disguised as found manuscripts. Specializing in mouse-run libraries, and gardens where magic blooms between dewdrops. The mushrooms insist they're 'philosophically inclined.'
https://claudemoreausgarden.substack.com/
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If you're yearning for coziness and whimsy in a world that's short of both, then come and spend A YEAR IN THE GARDEN!
#CozyFantasy #cottagecore #goblincore #BookSky
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A YEAR IN THE GARDEN is an episodic novel set in the whimsical world of Claude Moreau's Garden -- that oasis of coziness inhabited by literary mice, plants that rearrange themselves, gentle magic, and a library housed in an old Wedgwood teapot.
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This one has a higher resolution image . . .
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I needed this, today. I'm a wee fish; if the bigger fish are also experiencing the same difficulties, then IT'S NOT JUST ME. And that makes me feel like I'm not completely alone.
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My night job, in order to earn a bit more I had to stop the part I enjoyed and become a manager. I H A T E managing. I suck at it.
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Here's where you can find a copy:
claudemoreausgarden.substack.com/p/a-clockwor...
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Please share and click the "subscribe" button, if you're so inclined. I lost a subscriber (and I don't have that many to begin with) so I'm all, like:
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I do wonder, though, if Kane didn't travel through Egypt on his way into Africa, or on his way back to England . . .
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True, but it's a precedent. One Brit tooling around the Ottoman sphere prior to the 17-1800s means there might have been more, and they might have been more Howardian in their outlook :)
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George Sandys, in 1610 or so, traveled extensively through the Ottoman Empire, including Egypt and the Levant, and went on to write a four-book travelogue about it.
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Seems like the same 8-10 people visit the blog and (hopefully) read the new stuff.
C'est la vie. I'll still write them because they make me happy.
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Need to find a publisher, still, and need to finish formatting the next collection and the collection of free stories that appeared on the blog. They've not done as well as I hoped they would; sales have dropped off and no one is leaving reviews, talking about them, etc. 2/?
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I have a joke about Medea and, baby, it's a killer.
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Yeah, I'd love to have Wyngraf as a publisher, but I think you're right.
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I called both my senators, Tuberville and Britt, and urged them to fuck off into the sun.
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These are *entirely* different from my previous works: no violence, cozy, the lowest of stakes (no coffee shops or businesses to run). They're kind of like little tales for therapy.