Bubble and Squeek for 8 Jan 2024

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Bubble & Squeek
January 8, 2024

Bubble and Squeek for 8 Jan 2024. I’m so deep into the weeds of not only writing this current Shadowrun novel, I’m editing a different Shadowrun novel by another author who writes very densely. It’s a hell of a good read, too.

50 Things: In case you missed it, 50 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years, Part 1 (Emotions).

BackerKit: I am launching a kickstarter for in late March 2024 called “Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980.” It is a cozy, Middle Grade appropriate, ghost story, loosely based on fictionalized me at ten years old while living in a 300-year-old manor house in Belgium. Won’t you be my penpal?
—–BackerKit PR: In Amazing Stories. It’s always a thrill to see my stuff in SF magazines.

Interview: Exclusive Interview: “The Reinvented Detective” Editors Jennifer Brozek & Cat Rambo by Paul Semel. This was a fun interview.
—–Interview: Here’s a YouTube blurb for the interview that I think is quite snazzy.

Review: Review of The Reinvented Detective from Richard Pearce Moses on Bluesky: “Twenty three short stories that with a noir take set in the future. Some exceptional pieces in here, and all of them worthwhile take on the genre.”

Shout-out: This was an unexpected shout-out to me from Brian C.E. Buhl. It almost made me cry. I remember some of the comments I made. Jennifer Brozek Made Me a Better Writer. This is one of the reasons I keep teaching, helping, editing other authors.

Support: As always… if you appreciate my work and would like to support me, I love coffee. I am made of caffeine. This is the quickest way to brighten my day.

Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and multiple Hugo Awards. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

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