Bridget is feeling all the ways...

SFF and romance writer, Nola girl, biologist, adventurer, geek. Goes off on weird tangents and rambles a lot- esp late at night. (aka Brigitte Delery) she/her

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@ARmastrangelo This is, in fact, a diaspora cuisine word. Many 100+ year old New Orleans Italian restaurants (Sicilian diaspora origins) serve "red gravy" - which is different from non-diaspora sauces such as marinara. (Diaspora cuisine is really fascinating, tbh- and also worthy of respect.)

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@luinalaska I'm pretty sure mob people use "dentist" to imply fixers or people who cover up their bad deeds with a sheen of legitimacy.
Once went to a really weird dinner with my ex and his buddy and the guy the buddy was bodyguarding, who got introduced as "a dentist"... which... was odd.

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@atrupar I want him to do a demonstration. Carrying his concealed weapon and a camera, he should film himself approaching ICE agents on the street and stating clearly that he has a weapon. He should also reach into a pocket to produce identification for them. See how that goes for him.

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@AriDrennen It's definitely a neighborhood-by-neighborhood thing. My house got 1 trick or treater. My teen went to a friend's house and they took the friend's younger siblings trick or treating there -the street was packed with kids when I dropped him off. The friend lives 6 minutes away.

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What part of editing do you struggle with most? Developmental level? Proofreading? Line editing?

For me, line edits take the most time. I keep rethinking how to phrase something and when I rephrase, I end up finding the same phrase six lines down anyway.
#WritingCommunity

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"Girls will be girls" I whisper as my human FMC pushes herself onto her arranged marriage shifter husband in his beastly form, then demands he mark her as his mate.
📖 The Rejected Shifter’s Required Bride by Brigitte Delery 📖
#paranormalromance

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Girls be like “I needed this” and it’s just the FMC being surprised when the stranger she got paired with in an arranged marriage kisses her senseless instead of walking away to sign the paperwork.
📖 The Rejected Shifter’s Required Bride by Brigitte Delery 📖
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So, the Rapture didn’t come, but my FMC (who knows nothing about knotting) gets paired with a hot werewolf in an arranged marriage, so she certainly does.

📖 The Rejected Shifter’s Required Bride by Brigitte Delery 📖
#monsterromance

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@Siennafrst For the Anthropic settlement, the books have to be from the 2 specific pirate databases they scraped in 2021 and 2022, and the work has to be registered with the US Copyright office before the date of the scrape.
(Also- the lawyers and court fees take their cut first)

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@brclothwrites Other places take this question as "do you want to be near a scary cemetery?" New Orleans people... we do not.

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@brclothwrites Can I pick the cemetery?
Lafayette #2, hell yes, Commander's, Magazine, parade route.
St. Louis #2, meh, N Claiborne
St. Louis #1- we talking Basin St side or back side?
St Louis #3 and Carrollton both have potential AND you can still walk into the cemetery without a permit.

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During a school shooting, children hide under their desks.

After a school shooting, Republicans hide under theirs.

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@amykdebellis Seems like extremely outdated advice, honestly. With a quick glance over the USA Today Bestseller list, I found at least 10 authors who started out self published or currently are self published... and I only made it through page 1. (The list is 3 pages)

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@NikoleCallihan For big releases: a huge marketing budget. But the vast majority of trad published authors aren't anywhere near unstoppable. It's easier/more common to become a 6 or 7-figure author as an indie than as a trad author. Most authors with trad contracts aren't even 5 figure authors.

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@MelJRey It's close to 8-9 for me. I don't tend to enjoy narratives with no relationship subplot at all and all my favorite fantasy novels and series have fully fleshed out characters who have relationships and emotional connections that affect character decisions.

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@StoniAstley I don't generally respond to DMs from people who haven't engaged with me publicly prior to that point. Give me engagement on my public-facing socials first. Why would I bother DMing with someone who won't do that?

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@TAR_Kirk I think the question is: what do consumers (in this case readers) want?
I think there are small corners of the literary world where readers might want this but it’s definitely not where my readers exist. So is the group who would want it big enough to be worth building it?

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Dragon Shifter Romance at an arranged marriage masked ball. #fantasyromance #dragonshifters

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Radish is shutting down. While I was not an author on the platform, I sympathize with everyone who did write there. The end of Kindle Vella threw us for a loop-this is a similar blow. Wishing all the Radish authors fair winds toward their next venture. #booktwt #writingcommunity