I was a little under the weather yesterday, so I spent the day reading A Time for Mercy the latest Grisham novel.

John Grisham has sold over 300 million books.

He talked a small press into publishing 5,000 copies of his first book A Time to Kill. In his words, he couldn’t give it away.

Then Random House published his second novel The Firm. It became a bestseller and he eventually also sold millions of copies of A Time to Kill.

What does this mean to BC writers?

get set, go!

Writing a long (very long) story, and I need to find some information on medications.

Without hypnosis (I won't use that), I need to find a medication for a story. The main character is being really put through the wringer, and while he has significant motivation to comply with the 'torture', there's suggestion that additional 'help' to ensure compliance / reduce defiance would be needed. It needs to:

antidepressant
mood stabilization
increase sense of compliance
reduce ability to be defiant or objectionable

First, I want to thank all readers of the story for their support!

I want to reiterate that the story is purely fiction and is in no way meant as a political statement.

I know that the election has created some tensions and I am not trying to make any statements that have anything to do with that.

I said I had a mind to extend some stories, this is the first.

I wrote The Shoplifter in 2012 which has over 7,700 hits and 239 kudos, so it seems you liked it a little.

I've written a sequel which I will post soon, there will probably be another after that, which isn't written yet and will depend upon how much time I have to write, being a rather busy woman, I have squeeze things in when I can.

If you haven't read the original story, the follow up will miss quite a lot. Here's a link:

otherwise known as the Wednesday posting!

Sometimes as an author you write a line that is just perfect. The type of line that tears at the reader's heartstrings. The type of line that makes a perfect last line of a chapter, that will have all the readers mad at you for ending there.

I just wrote a line like that. I hadn't put any chapters yet in this story that I am writing, but after writing this line, I will. You will all hate me when you read it, but . . . You will tune in to the next chapter after reading it.

As you may or may not have seen, I’ve recently started releasing a non-canon tale in the Whateley Universe, “A New Direction” - thanks to my non-canon status, I can afford to be a little more free with fitting setting restrictions, but it still rubs me the wrong way to break from the established canon.

I have shared here both times that I've posted my book 'Enamored' to online stores: first, on Smashwords, then on Kindle.

I've gotten a few sales of it, but both times I've asked for reviews as well, and that's been a lot harder to score so far. In fact, on Kindle -- arguably the higher profile of the two options -- I've gotten precisely two star ratings, and ONE review. One of those two ratings was a two-star with no explanation, knocking my book as a whole down to a 3 1/2 star total.

So, here's what I'm asking:

Here in the UK its Rememberance Sunday, when we honour our dead from 2 World Wars and subsequent military interventions, lest we forget.

War of the Worlds has been reproduced many times. I am surprised. I just happened upon a delightful preview version of it on YouTube set around the turn of the 20th Century with the long skirts and such. I have been trying to rent the full version of it but the BBC seems reluctant to do so. I even subscribed to BBC and gave my address as Dumfries, but they seemed quick to suss out my treachery. My next approach might be to use something to show my address in the UK, but not be there. I'm reluctant to do that because I do not wish to be spanked.

Suggestions?

Angie versus the bureaucrat.

Hey everyone,

Just letting you all know that I probably won't be posting any chapters this week. I was trying my best to get Apocalypse Dawn ready to post for today, but I caught a bad cold over the weekend and it's just kicking my ass. Between the sinus headache, the coughing, having no energy at all, and my inability to focus it's probably better that I just take it easy and get some rest.

*big hugs to you all*

Amethyst

Stevie performs as Miss BeeGee, Mascot of the Harbordale Blue-Greens independent basebal club. The kids love her, the fans love her--Miss BeeGee is really popular. Inside the costume, Stevie enjoys it all. One problem--Stevie is a boy.

got a new story up, look forward to seeing what people think:

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/87476/locked

A little bit late today, but at least it's finally up!

The Fall of Kruhl Epilogue By Daniela A. Wolfe When the once-king manages to at last unleash the power of Waldere, she finds that defeating Leoffa is no small task.

Yep, a posting on the right day and before bedtime!

Also, check out our current poll: Should BC Patreon offer Annual Memberships?

Nearly thirty years ago, I accomplished something good that had me on the front page of statewide newspapers, repeatedly. Many, many good things happened for hundreds of thousands of people as a direct result of my efforts.

Then some bad people asked me to do some unlawful things, which I refused to do.

At the same time, other people wanted to make money they weren’t entitled to.

Thirty months into the project, I found myself accused by a state-wide elected official of malfeasance.

I was the subject of several frontpage exposes.

Hey readers. I'm very sorry but MSPD won't be posted again until next weekend. We've been so busy the past three days with dealing with things now that Martin got his first paycheck. We got a lot done and did some shopping and hopefully we'll have our medical cards in the next week or two so I can deal with getting on my meds and hormones again. So things are looking good.

*big hugs*

Amethyst

Hello Closeteers!

**Sigh** here. I imagine we all have our own fave stories here on BC, including some that were left unfinished (and therefore leave us yearning for more expounding and eventual resolution). This is through no fault of the authors of these tales; there are millions of good reasons they aren't finished (most having to do with Real Life Issues).