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Livestreaming Tonight!

Okay Laboratory Folk, Livestream tonight at 5pm EST. Possibly with baby in tow.


Any more questions feel free to chime in, or dig back to the "November Livestream Q&A" where there are already questions lined up and ready to go that I will be answering.

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A Piece on the Side: the Fine Art of the Beloved Sidekick

 

Greetings, Mad Fictioneers! I am slowly starting to emerge from the deep waters of surgical recovery and new motherhood--which is to say that I am typing this with a sleeping (hopefully sleeping) infant next to me, hoping that he will not wake up for at least an hour or two, having played t...

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November Open Discussion Post

Greetings, Laboratory! Here is your open thread for the month! Get to know each other, discuss high art, share memes, I won't judge. Last night we did an Antiques Roadshow Drinking Game so really I CAN'T judge anyone on anything. 

How's things with all of you?

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Mass Effect Giveaway Winners!

The winners are...Pam Hopkins and Ann Marie O'Connell!

Message me your addresses and I'll send your copies...as soon as I receive mine! 

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK: Cumin Lamb Tacos with Roasted Sweet-Spicy Carrots and Pistachios

 

Cumin Lamb Tacos with Roasted Sweet-Spicy Carrots and Pistachios

HELLO EVERYBODY!

I do not have diabetes anymore OMG EFF YES! I am not pregnant anymore and thus do not have the weight of creating an entire human weighing down my necessary brain-parts and also ag...

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New Book Day Giveaway!

Hello, all!

It is Book Launch Day! And that book is my Mass Effect tie in novel, Annihilation! I'm so excited for everyone to get to read my totally not fancy or literary medical thriller in spaaaace and get to know all the aliens and easter eggs I wedged in this bad boy. 

As usual, I a...

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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Best wishes from all of us here at the Lab!

October rewards will go up this weekend, November around mid-month. Blame Sebastian S. Pumpkins, who rudely demands to be cared for and tended to. Keep in mind, however, he is only a pumpkin. He doesn't know any better. (And tha...

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October Livestream Q & A

Come watch! There will be a smol beastie with very little hair! How cool does that lipstick look on camera? Get questions in now! Hope to see some of you on chat!


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Livestream Tonight at 8

Hey everyone! I'll be doing this month's livestream Q&A tonight at 8pm EST! Still time to get questions in if you have them! I'll post the link at 8.

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Monthly Open Discussion Post!

Here is your monthly open discussion post, suggested during the Livestream awhile back! A place for you guys to get to know each other, discuss whatever you want in a place where no one will yell at you or act the fool, post memes and gifs and song lyrics, praise the season and Halloween and fall, v...

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October Rewards Update!

Hello, everyone!

As most of you know, I just had a baby a couple of weeks ago. It's a Sebastian! As many of you may have assumed, every minute since September 25th has been taken up with post-surgical care, painkillers, learning All the Things, attempting to walk both up AND down the stairs after ...

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September Excerpt: The Legend of Good Women

Happy Autumn, Laboratory Folk!

Since I'm officially on maternity leave, I'm not writing much for the next twelve weeks while I learn how to look after a brand new human. But that doesn't mean I intend to leave your excerpt-hungry hearts high and dry! 

This one is SERIOUSLY from the vaul...

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Mad Fiction Experiment: How Much Is That Mystery Box In the Window?

 

How Much Is That Mystery Box In the Window: Genre Fiction, Endings, and YOU

Greetings, everyone! IT IS AUTUMN, MY DUDES. It’s all happening! Leaves and woodfires and pumpkin pie and costumes and marshmallows and crisp sunshine and A GODDAMNED BABY WHAT EVEN IS THAT ...

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Laboratory Lottery Winner

We are happy to announce the patron chosen by the Laboratories Automated Fickle Finger of Fate is...

Gabry Crivilare!

The previously pictured prize package (along with a Bonus Extra Kylo Ren Jumbo Eraser as we noticed on your profile you are a Star Wars fan...) will be out to you shortly. View Post

ALLCAPS COOKBOOK: Creamy Parmesan Pasta with Brussels Sprouts and Bacon

Creamy Parmesan Pasta with Brussel Sprouts and Bacon

It is with deep gratitude that I say: this is going to be my last goddamned diabeetus recipe. CLEAR SEAS AND FULL CARBS AHEAD.

I’m tired of all of it, and honestly this dish was the one culinary bright spot in my life ov...

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Lottery: Prize Goeth Before the Fall

Hullo Mad Fictioneers!

Patreon Goblin Heath on the page here, as the expecting and exceptional (not at all biased, me) Chief Witch/C.E.O of Scrivener Science here at the Laboratory is currently sleeping peacefully, faithful Floofhound by her side.

Your generosity knows no bounds, keeping the...

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September Livestream Is Go in 3, 2, 1...


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Livestream Q & A Sunday at 3:15 EST

Hey, everyone!

As soon as I can make myself presentable and reasonably pain-free, I'll be firing up this month's Q & A on YouTube. As usual, there will be a link here at the time in question, a chat on the stream, and you still have time get some questions in over on the 2018-09-09 18:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Denizen of the Month: Grimm, the Greatest of All German Shepherds

Thirteen years ago, I took a detour to West Virginia on the drive home from my first Wiscon. It was a long way, but I knew it would be worth it. On a farm in the mountains, a German Shepherd named Breeze had given birth to a litter of nine. Breeze had been the name of my then-husband's childhood dog...

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Live-Tweet Poll!

Please select a victim to be obliterated in tweet form!


Oooh there are some juicy choices here!

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Livetweet Survey!

That time has come again, because I can barely move or write, for me to make fun of a movie or show or what have you for your enjoyment, because that is an Art I can make on the couch!

Leave a comment suggesting a movie, 2-3 episodes of a TV show, or 2-3 hours of a video game you would like to see...

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Experiment: Living in a Cliche

God, You’re Such a Fucking Cliche: Lessons from Life OR WHATEVER I GUESS

Greetings, Mad Fictioneers!

It is the dregs of summer, which means it is sticky and hot and revolting out there, where the air clings to you like a nice guy who swears he totally just wants to be frie...

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Sunday Supper: Open Chat

During the Q & A a couple of days ago, the idea came up for a monthly open post here, so that everyone in the Mad Fiction Laboratory can get to know each other a bit! People seemed to like the notion--think of this as a beta test.

Next month, I'll try a weird little question or something to ge...

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Livestream Q & A!

Sorry, the power went out and then surged earlier today so we had to reset everything--going live now!

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The Future Is Blue Winners!

The winners of the two signed copies of The Future Is Blue are...

*drumroll*

Bruce Cohen and Megan Hungerford! Message me your addresses so I can send your copies! 

Thank you everyone--more giveaways soon!

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This Month's Livestream Starts at 9 pm EST Tonight!

Just trying to be, I don't know, EVEN SLIGHTLY ORGANIZED HERE, and tell you more than five minutes in advance when the Livestream is happening. 

In two hours! As soon as I can get myself looking like something not born in a swamp, the dogs behaving like things not currently guarding a swamp w...

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New Book Giveaway!

I have a new book out! And so it is time for another Patreon giveaway. 

This one is The Future Is Blue, my new short fiction collection, which has all my short stories from the past two years plus th...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK: Caldo Verde (Portuguese Sausage and Kale Soup)

ALL CAPS COOKBOOK: TRASHPANDA PLACENTA EDITION

CALDO VERDE!

So, you know I fucking love food? And how cool it was that my pregnancy got rid of my dairy allergy and I could eat just, like, ALL THE CHEESECAKE? 

My body was like AHAHA FUCK YOU. I hav...

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ALLCAPS COOKBOOK: Caramel-Habanero Pasta

 

Caramel-Habanero Pasta with Bacon and Greens

HI EVERYBODY IT IS TIME FOR ONE OF MY WEIRD INVENTIONS.

This pile of deliciousness was invented because I couldn’t decide what I wanted so I just made something with all the things in my head HA HA THIRD TRIMESTER I...

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June Q & A

Hello, everyone, this month we're live from Readercon!

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