mamelby.bsky.social
Autist atheist author.
Bitter bigender bisexual.
Feminist fujoshi.
Polyamorous perimenopausal former-physicist.
Scandi-American pseudo-intellectual "she".
@triplebbooks.bsky.social
https://mamelby.wordpress.com
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6-9 Goals this week.
Getting the Best Forgotten manuscript to the proofreader.
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6-8 Line share.
“Because it all has consequences,” I explained. “Nothing is ever forgotten, not really. The body remembers. The people around you remember. The universe never forgets anything.”
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6-7 Check in.
I am currently through the first book of the 2nd vol of my series - doing minor line edits and fixing any formatting issues.
I have four more books left - but it's pretty fast going. I can do about 1 book in 1 or 2 days.
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6-6 Character inspiration/mood board
Okay - I have to admit - for whatever weird reason, when I write Caleb (one of the secondary characters) I think of Moses Kim (lyricaleggroll) who's an adult content creator and musician.
They are very different - but the vibes are similar.
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6-5 Weird comps.
See above.
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6-4 Comps.
I seriously don't know.
Maybe Jack and Joker? It's a drama, but like, there's a similar vibe of dealing with extremely serious topics with intense emotion - and still being fucking ridiculous at times - with capers!
www.iq.com/play/tv4hrtm...
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6-3 Inspiration.
Thai BL - definitely.
But also, when I was a kid TV was very episodic. Everything was "back to normal" constantly regardless of what extreme things happened.
I wanted to make a story where the effects carried on.
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6-2 Goals
I just published the 3rd Ed of Bad Memory (the 1st vol). Depending on how quickly my proofreader is able to turn around Best Forgotten (the 2nd vol) - hoping to get the ARCs out by the end of the month.
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6-10 Do the characters have to explain their queerness?
One of them, yes. But that explanation is done "off screen" toward a friend who is having a hard time accepting it.
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Just saying - you can do whatever you want to.
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Okay - funny story - the first novel I ever wrote was 260,000 words and I was planning on writing a short story.
Fucker is going to be my Opus.
But, working on my current WIP first.
I put the 260,000 word epic on the back burner - I'll get back to it at some point.
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Oh dear.
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6-9 When did MCs realize?
I haven't explored their "origin stories" that much.
But I imagine Jaimes was in denial for a while, he was deeply in the closet.
I can see Mandi realizing it when she was a kid.
Nik has attachment issues and likely had a difficult time sorting it out.
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I literally slept through half of it.
Oh well.
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Though I do think it's sort of interesting that he says it in the same way that some of my coworkers say it when they are talking about nonverbal students.
As in - they really wish they understood more.
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I considered that - but this is my writing instructor - he says it all the time, in a somewhat exasperated tone.
Like, am I really that strange? And I guess I am.
Whenever he says it, I just reply, "No, you don't."
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If you would like an ARC of Best Forgotten, please DM me. I will also provide a complimentary copy of Bad Memory.
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Best Forgotten is the second volume of the series and is currently in the revision and editing stage.
It's slated to come out early this summer.
Psst: There's a wedding. 💍
And murder - but also a wedding.
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Bad Memory is the story of how Nik, now a neurotic and repressed adult, fell in love with his roommate Jaimes, a carefree promiscuous gay man who can't help but joke around.
As Nik and Jaimes become closer they discover the truth of one another, and fight extreme forces trying to keep them apart.
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Bad Memory is the first volume of the Purple and Blue Brigade series - the Purple and Blue Brigade being a group of queer teens who protected each other in high school, including Nik, a deeply disturbed young bisexual man and Mandi a fierce lesbian hacker.
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Smashwords gives me the largest royalty - lmao.
www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
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6-8 MC's queer identities.
Nik is bisexual. Jaimes is a gay man. Mandi is a lesbian.
There's several other queer characters as well, but those are the MC's.
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6-7 How do characters overcome shame?
That's basically the arc of the ENTIRE SERIES. 😆
Very slowly and over the course of two novels.
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6-6 What is villain proud of?
Nothing. Not really. One of the reasons he's the villain.
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6-5 Snippet "proud".
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6-4 GIF/audio of what MCs are proud of.
Who? Mandi the Pong Queen? Her?
youtu.be/cNAdtkSjSps?...
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6-3 Pride celebrations.
I don't have any! Maybe in a future book. But there's a wedding, there's Solstice, there's Christmas, a birthday (but that's not...it's bad).
Of course, going to con is sort of like going to Pride. lmao. (He warms up to it eventually.)
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6-2 Family pride.
Nik's family has always been supportive. Jaimes has had a much more difficult time.
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Best to try to avoid them - to be honest.
They are a very loud, small, group - full of misplaced anger.
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You'll notice some of these folks - all 12 of them - aren't shy about also saying that these people they somehow hate for no reason aren't just afab but also involved with men.
They see us as having something approximate to a cishet life - so we're just a lightening rod for their pain.
Oh well.
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I'm perplexed as to why some folks feel the need to point these things out constantly.
Like no - of course I don't know what it's like to live someone else's life. We aren't the same people with the same experiences.
Why is that being used as a weapon against me for no damn reason?
So weird.
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Life would also be more difficult for me, in many ways, if I transitioned or simply open about my gender in my day-to-day life.
It would be more difficult for me, in some ways, if my bisexuality were more visible.
NO SHIT.
That's what oppression IS.
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It's the SAME fucking thing as how I'm treated due to marrying a man.
Like, I'm well aware that I don't deal with the same things as people who marry someone of the same sex. No kidding!
That fact is not lost on me.
It's when this is pointed out CONSTANTLY.
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Soon!
It's also been "soon" for a very long time.
I thought I might be able to bang it out, but *surgery* and also taking my time with careful edits, getting feedback, etc.
But SOON.
Best Forgotten is coming out SOON.
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I knew that Bad Memory would be my learning experience in self publishing, and it sure has been a learning experience!!!
Now, I can focus on getting out the sequel, which has yet to be released in any form.
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DONE!!!!!
Ebook already available on Amazon - but should be available on other platforms soon.
This is the THIRD edition of Bad Memory - and the last.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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This is THE FIRST BOOK - by the way - the one that was published a couple times already.
This is the LAST last edition.
The sequel still needs one more pass by me and then to be sent off to the proofreader.
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I fixed it and the ebook looks great!
Now --- the PAPERBACK!!!!
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And I'm learning how to use Word formatting - and I guess if you add an "odd page" section break - it doesn't actually show the skipped even page.
Nope.
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Oh good - I see what happened. I had changed a couple things after I accidentally nixed the page numbers all together - and THOSE things messed a few things up when I put them back.
Uff.
I formatting this when I did not know what I was doing, so it's all fucked up. I'm fixing it all now.