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Bubble and Squeek for 22 Oct 2024

So much is going on. Travel. Fun secrets. Work, work, and more work. Here’s a Bubble & Squeek for you.

Bookfair: November 23rd. I’m one the spotlight authors for the new Written in the Northwest Bookfair, along with Seanan McGuire, Sno-Isle Libraries, and Krampus!

The cover for mosaic run, showing two girls running between racks of servers being shot at by a flying drone.Interview Series: I am Book 101 podcast’s October Author of the month.
– Interview #1: This one is more about me and how I work. YouTube and LinkedIn.
– Interview #2. We talk about Last Days of Salton Academy. YouTube and Babyboomer.org. (I learn about new places with every interview.)
– Interview #3. We talked about the Melissa Allen trilogy omnibus Never Let Me. YouTube.
– Interview #4: We talked about Shadowrun: The Mosaic Run in this one. YouTube.

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.

Writing Contest: Worldcon Seattle 2025 is having a writing contest with some fabulous prizes! One for teen authors and one for adult authors. I’d love to see your work!

YouTube: I don’t know why I hadn’t done this before…but I searched for myself on YouTube. There were a lot more videos out there than expected. So, I created a playlist of me videos—interviews, fiction, live plays. That sort of thing. The oldest one is from 17 years ago taken by Cherie Priest at an Abney Park concert.

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 the Hugo Award. 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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