{"id":31444,"date":"2017-09-25T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31444"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:02:06","slug":"macro-monday-says-buy-some-books-help-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/09\/25\/macro-monday-says-buy-some-books-help-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Says, Buy Some Books, Help Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"

First up, let’s get this out of the way —<\/p>\n

Puerto Rico is undergoing a humanitarian crisis thanks to Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n

It’s not good, and it’s getting worse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s devastation, literally and emotionally, for the people of Puerto Rico — which, please remember, is an American colony that already gets the short-end of the stick, and it exists under a president that right now feels very<\/em> comfortable railing about NFL players taking a knee to protest the oppression of black lives but who apparently has little<\/em> interest<\/em> in shining a light on an ongoing American crisis.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to get to the meat of it —<\/p>\n

For Houston, I donated sales to two of my books (Blue Blazes<\/strong> and Hellsblood Bride<\/strong>) to Americares. (As such, I was able to donate $250.) This time, I’m going to donate profits\u00a0of\u00a0my Mega Writing Bundle to the Hispanic Federation, taking a page from Lin Manuel Miranda. You are of course able to donate directly to that charity<\/strong><\/span><\/a>! But, for the next seven days, if you grab a copy of the Writing Bundle<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which gets you ten books for twenty bucks (eight writing books and two novels), you’ll also be donating to the Hispanic Federation.<\/p>\n

[Link to Writing Bundle: here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>]<\/p>\n

[Also, Lin Manuel’s Twitter account<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is worthy of a follow, not just because it’s Lin Manuel, but also because he’s been charting some of the help that the Hispanic Federation is doing for PR.]<\/p>\n

Anyway!<\/p>\n

Other Updatery-Floo-Dee-Doo<\/h2>\n

Tomorrow, Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise, I’ll be in Philadelphia at the B&N Rittenhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Square to help Fran Wilde usher in the third and final book in her Bone Universe series. (The one caveat is we’re dealing with a small bronchial plague in Das Wendighaus, so that’s a variable. I’m doing okay, my wife less so, so I’m hoping to make it.)<\/p>\n

Then, next week I’m off to Pelee Island for the Pelee Island Writers Retreat.<\/p>\n

Then: NYCC.<\/p>\n

Then: back with Fran and Kevin Hearne in San Francisco (Borderlands!) on October 17th, Portland (Powells!) on Oct 18th, and Seattle Oct 19th. Quick deets at Kevin’s blog<\/strong><\/span><\/a>! Kevin is launching his most excellent Plague of Giants, Fran’s rocking Horizon, and I’ll be launching my new book about narrative and storytelling, Damn Fine Story.<\/p>\n

Then: home again.<\/p>\n

Uhh. What else?<\/p>\n

Exeunt<\/strong> remains a giant book. I’m pretty sure I should be done it by now. It’s 800 pages (in Word), currently 182,000 words, and it just… keeps… going.<\/p>\n

Invasive is still on sale<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: $4.99. Zer0es is<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, too. And the third Miriam Black book, The Cormorant<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, is now $3.99 for Reasons Unknown and for Timeframe Unclear.<\/p>\n

I think that’s it for now.<\/p>\n

Onto the macros.<\/p>\n

The first of which I love very much:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Because though\u00a0you’ve seen the ladybug, you haven’t seen the spider.<\/p>\n

And another cool camouflaged spider:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Here, have some weird fungus! It’s in your brain now! It’s taking over!<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

And that’s it for now.<\/p>\n

You can always find more of my pics at my Flickr account<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shine on, you cuckoo rhinestones. Shine on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First up, let’s get this out of the way — Puerto Rico is undergoing a humanitarian crisis thanks to Hurricane Maria. It’s not good, and it’s getting worse. It’s devastation, literally and emotionally, for the people of Puerto Rico — which, please remember, is an American colony that already gets the short-end of the stick, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-8ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31445,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31444\/revisions\/31445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}