@adriabailton
I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com
See me talk about SF/F, writing, comics, TV, and Supernatural at Con-Tinual (the Con that Never Ends) on Facebook and Youtube.
Permutations, a mosaic novel based on Jack Chalker's Well World is finally out! Order it from book sellers near you.
For today's #Writephant #selfpromo, I'm letting you know that my novelette, Arcing on audiobook, is on sale for $0.99 at Spotify, Apple, and Nook Audiobooks! May be on sale elsewhere, I'm not totally sure on that.
It's the top of the next hour, and the official questions for #Writephant are all posted. Please continue to chat about your summer reading on the hashtag.
Now it's time for self-promo! Feel free to post whatever fits in the character
count.
#Writephant Q1. Did you participate in Summer Reading Programs growing up? Things like Book-It, Summer Reading Lists, etc. Tell me about them and your favorite memory with them.
#Writephant #WritingCommunity #WritersofMastodon #amreading
#Bookstodon #SummerReading
Bringing me joy today is that it is summer. Summer in the Seattle-area doesn't really start until after July 4th, but we've had some nice days and the rain is also welcome.
#Writephant
It's time for the #Writephant weekly writer chat! I'm your host today!
Theme: Perhaps because of school summer breaks, there's a lot of push about Summer Reading, and things like Beach Reads. It's now summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, so I'm going to ask you about your Summer Reads today.
But first, introduce yourself, and tell us how you're doing today. What's bringing you joy right now?
@neve thank you for hosting #writephant this week
Speaking of more light-hearted things, I did up a character card for my latest book. It’s an enemies-to-lovers, fake-married, only-one-bed, Viking-inspired m/m romance. Find out more (and see the character cards for my other books) at my website:
#writephant Q4 Is there a creative piece (book, movie, music, TV show…) that you return to just because it feels joyful?
@wendypalmer I don't get it either. Writing is not a get rich quick scheme, so why deny yourself the creative part and make an effort only on the business side of things? 
@neve #writephant A2 Do you find joy in the act of writing itself, or only after you type THE END?
I get *satisfaction* from typing THE END, but the *joy* is in the writing.
Obviously sometimes it goes badly, and often it goes slowly, but there’s really nothing like the feeling of when it comes together. (This is why I will never understand why someone would want to outsource that magic feeling to a plagiarism machine).
#writephant Q2 Do you find joy in the act of writing itself, or only after you type THE END?
I appeared on this podcast talking about Quiet on Set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eD9cF77uI4
https://medium.com/interstellar-flight-press/nanowrimo-is-dead-in-the-water-d04a201abd55
It's the top of the next hour, and the official questions for #Writephant are all posted. Please continue to chat about dinosaur books on the hashtag.
Now it's time for self-promo! Feel free to post whatever fits in the character count.
#Writephant A3. What is your favorite book with dinosaurs and why?
The Far Side comics featuring dinosaurs!
#Writephant A2. What is your favorite dinosaur and why?
Deinonychus. Not necessarily wanting to meet one in person, but I've learned it was probably one of the most intelligent dinosaurs, and I've actually done a treatment for a time travel story where they become sapient and survive after the asteroid impact, and humans go back to meet them. When the time portal is made into a gateway between times, this turns out to be both good and bad…
(Of course, I have the dates wrong for when it lived, but I never did write the story anyway.)
Say hello to the picture!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deinonychus_Restoration.png
#Writephant A3: What is your favorite book with dinosaurs and why?
Well, it's not published yet.
Because I have to finish writing it.
#Writephant Q3. What is your favorite book with dinosaurs and why?
#Writephant A1. There are dinosaur people & non-dino people… Which are you and why?
As a kid I loved dinosaurs. I remember being excited when a technical book came out proposing the controversial idea of hot blooded dinosaurs and that, possibly they were related to birds. Yep, it was controversial and I was all over it.
My first work, a novella written during my senior year in high school over winter break, featured an alien girl modeled after a Deinonychus without the murder claw. It was both a coming of age story and a Romeo Juliet love story, with a stranded community of humans and a boy who tries to bridge the gap between species.
