Monday Poetry

Poetry

Loneliness

By

Serena Mossgraves

Soylent green is people

And I have always been color blind.

What does it matter to me

If I am but the last one

Left behind?

People on whole are a cruel

And ignorant lot,

And I prefer loneliness.

For loneliness is dangerous

You can learn to love yourself there.

Publishing Demystified

The purpose of this one is simple. Most likely everyone here knows I run Fae Corps Publishing and I have been doing this in the background for a while now. I plan on talking clearly about the tools I use for publishing, and the way that each one works. Demystifying what I do. Is that to say that I will be making my own self unnecessary? No, because my experience is valuable. I just feel like so much of the process is made out to be harder than it needs to be.

This week is less about my tools or what I do but a clarification of terms. Again.

These are general book terms, and I have been seeing a few people who have been confused about them.

YA- This term has been around forever. It means Young Adult. It’s generally about 16-21 year old characters and written with that age group in mind. Some people have it in their heads that it means that these books are not good because of the age it is aimed at. Some of the best books I have ever read were in this category.

NA- New Adult. These are generally aimed at people who are in their 20’s. Again they generally have characters in that range. These are the results of people deciding that YA is not acceptable after a certain age.

RH- This is a Romance genre specific. Reverse Harem. It’s one woman who takes several husbands/lovers.

Why Choose – Again a Romance genre specific. So this is very similar to reverse harem… But it allows LGBTq2s+ roles. It is exactly what it sounds like. The main character is given more than one love interest. And they accept both.

Middle Grade- this is a children’s book category. Picture books are usually called early readers. This is what falls in between early readers and YA.

Anthology – I added this because I have seen people confused about it. Anthology is always multiple authors. If a single author puts together a group of stories that will be a Collection.

Chapbook – This is a small poetry volume. Usually it will be roughly 24-35 poems.

Omnibus – this is a collection of books. Often if an author does a series… They will release an omnibus version to allow the space saving for the fans.

I will leave on the bottom of the post the upcoming calendar. I feel like that will help. As You can see this changes slightly each week. Things get adjusted because Authors are not ready or I get a book that I had promised space.

June –

21st – Chasing Ghosts by Serena Mossgraves

July –

1st – The Life Collection by Ashira Datya

5th – The Lightning War: Grounding Unit by Parker LaVitte

19th – Falling Flames by Ashira Datya

August –

16th – Darkness lies heavy in the heart by Joshua Pavelsky

23rd – Beneath the Deep Wave by Andrew McDowell

September –

6th – The Fall by Mariah Lynde

20th – The Magick Saga Collection by Ashira Datya

October –

18th – My Gothic Angel by Laj & Khoury Hawkins

25th – Anthology – Nightmare Whiskers

November-

8th – Thoughtfish by Ruan Bradford Wright (2nd Edition)

15th- Would You Like Fries with That By Mariah Lynde

December –

1st – unknown by Raz T Slasher (middle grade) (*though I don’t normally have an unknown in my list of release dates… from a couple of authors I will take the chance for “kids week” and save the spot. If I don’t get the book from them I will just have an empty spot for the day. But I think that they are worth it.)

2nd – where’s my Sugar by Patricia Harris

3rd – Pip 4: Pip that is not Yours! By Patricia Harris

4th – Anthology Fae Recipes

5th – Unknown by CM Snow

6th – kids week unannounced. (details are not available yet)

7th – kids week open

8th – Hood of Sedna by Mina Skye

13th – Anthology Honesty in Verse

2025

I will get those listed closer. I feel like if I were to put them on the blog it would put too much pressure. I have “penciled” in dates for several authors for 2025 already.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Human Shaped Verse

By Patricia Harris

Humanity is but another
Unknown thing
Making the poets speak.
All about the possibility
Never understanding the truth.

Someday I will speak instead about
How much I understand
All the things that make humans
Poetry.
Even then I will be wrong,
Definition is impossible.

Vaguely unreal is as close in
English as I might be capable.
Referring to the entire race
Somehow as having any voice
Even though they don’t understand themselves.

Sunday Suggestions

Poetry Prompt Take the song u hate the most and turn it into a haiku

Sunday Suggestions

Okay as a prompt… This is a hard one. Haiku is very specific. It has 5 syllables then 7 syllables and lastly 5 syllables and it must have a natural reference… Boy that new intern has set up a challenge!

Sunday Suggestions

Poetry Prompt Take the song u hate the most and turn it into a haiku

Sunday Suggestions

Okay as a prompt… This is a hard one. Haiku is very specific. It has 5 syllables then 7 syllables and lastly 5 syllables and it must have a natural reference… Boy that new intern has set up a challenge!

Oh yeah I have a book release today

Cover Image

Have you gotten your copy yet?

I almost always forget to post these things here even though it’s always posted on my publishing page.

Friday Share

Friday Share
Friday Share

So you found a new book?

Or maybe you just published one?

Did you find a new webcomic that you like?

Or a song you think everyone should hear?

No need for explanation…Just Share it.

You find a good deal that you think we should all see? Just share!

Or hey even a joke you think too fun not to share, Just share it.

Post links in the comments.

Occasionally I will too.

Artsy Fartsy Thursday

Weekly Blog image

There is so many forms of art. It makes it harder to acknowledge the label of artist.
A person who bakes beautiful cakes is an artist.

A person who draws using charcoal is an artist.

A person who aranges the words to form poetry or prose is an artist.

A person who paints in watercolors, acrylics, or oils is an artist.

A person who weaves is an artist.

A person who works with clay, resin or stone is an artist.

Perhaps any person who just creates something to bring beauty or Joy into this dismal world is an artist?

Today I am philosophical. Because I am too tired to create art.

What a week!

Meme - Not today

This has been a busy week.

I found out (thanks to one of my authors there) that the covers are not appearing on the sites for the indie bookstores in Canada. So I am working to get that fixed.

I have several books in the manuscript stage. This is where I am dealing with Formatting, editing and making sure that all the details are right before I publish them. Which is tiring all on it’s own.

I got distracted by a new story. I was doing well writing the Sea Wytch…but I got invited to submit to an anthology Fractured Mind Publishing is Doing…and it is out of my normal genre. And I am scared to death of messing it up…but I am enjoying the writing. It is flowing, and I am trying to make it work.

If I get accepted it will be a February release. I will be sure to post more on here as it is known to me. (of course this is a Serena thing.)

I wrote another Bedtime tales book for release next year. (That is a Patricia thing..)

And the poetry has been happening.

With all of that plus the normal publishing stuff…and the housekeeping that I have to try to keep up with…I am exhausted.

Tuesday Tunes

Tuesday Tunes
A day for me to discuss music

Lyrics –

Hey, your glass is empty
It’s a hell of a long way home
Why don’t you let me take you?
It’s no good to go alone
I never would have opened up
But you seemed so real to me
And after all the bullshit I’ve heard
Refreshing not to see
That I don’t have to pretend
She doesn’t expect it from me
So, don’t tell me I
Haven’t been good to you
Don’t tell me I
Have never been there for you
Just tell me why
Nothing is good enough
Hey little girl, would you like some candy?
Your Momma said it’s okay
The door is open, come on outside
No, I can’t come out today
It’s not the wind that cracked your shoulder
And threw you to the ground
Who’s there that makes you so afraid?
You’re shaken to the bone
And no, I don’t understand
You deserve so much more than this
So, don’t tell me why
He’s never been good to you
Don’t tell me why
He’s never been there for you
Don’t you know that why
It’s simply not good enough
Oh, so just let me try
I will be good to you
Just let me try
And I will be there for you
I’ll show you why
You’re so much more than
Good enough
So, don’t tell me why
He’s never been good to you
Don’t tell me why
He’s never been there for you
Don’t you know that why
It’s simply not good enough
Oh, so just let me try
I will be good to you
Just let me try
And I will be there for you
I’ll show you why
You’re so much more than
Good enough

My 2 cents –

This was the first song that I ever heard that had defined Queer undertones. I had always had the abusive relationship, so this song hit so hard the first time I heard it. The idea that music could talk openly about all of it. (I had been sheltered music wise before I heard this one…A Lot of Country and Hard Rock. Neither really tackle queer topics or rather did back then.) Nowadays queer representation in music is everywhere…but back when I first heard this song it was such a new thing.