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Ignore The Embezzlement Bit…
 we’re moving back to Berlin for a few years this summer. Which means I need to find a job. Just when my resume thought it could retire, it’ll need to work harder than ever before! My last position as an employee was as a specialty building manager in Australia… nine years ago. While I’ve been busy with the books since then, I’m not yet sure how to parlay those skills into a job in the building industry. “Morgan has almost a decade’s worth of experience building entire worlds in his books!” And, as you know, I can walk and talk at the same time. That’s going on the resume. In my latest nonsense history video, I talk about the time American writer O. Henry was imprisoned for embezzlement at his job. A sentence which cost him his job and his Hogg… I’m almost at 100 subscribers, so please keep sharing these videos with your friends! Then tell me, what are your top job hunting tips? Mine is: Ignore the job requirements. If you like the sound of the role – and think you can do it – apply for it. Chat soon, Morgan P.S. More Morgan? Get 2 of my books free here: morgandelaney.info/newsletter |
Dark, Strange and Fantastic Fiction
Trusted by 500+ fans to find the fun in the funereal, the absurd in the macabre, and delight in the darkness. Join fiction author Morgan Delaney three times a week for genre-bending stories of cozy horror, dark fantasy and a brain with mind of its own...
Raise your glasses to the masses! This week I smashed past a massive 100,000 words of the latest Alumière adventure, The Cat Wore Black! 100,000 words is about the length of To Kill a Mockingbird. And I’m only about 80-ish% through the book. Don’t worry, though. I’m a messy writer, and this is the first draft. Once I pull out the Red Pen and start deleting, that word count will come right back down again. I reckon the finished Cat will clock in at a respectable 75,000-80,000 like the others....
You think you’ve seen it all… I’m friends with the stray dogs in our local park. The people working in the park feed the dogs, and I supply the tickles (and additional treats). Then the bloody birds ruined it. What should have been a win-win situation has turned into a catastrophe. The dogs get food – and tickles. The blackbirds get whatever’s left. But the birds wanted more. So they started pecking at the oldest dog, who only has three legs, to hurry him on before he’s finished. They sneak...
We want to try every restaurant in Tbilisi before we leave this summer. I can’t recommend last night’s restaurant. The food tasted fine, but the decor included a film projector projecting some old Georgian film. I know it’s Georgian because 90% of the action was people eating and drinking. The walls were stuffed with pictures, paintings, and various vintage bits and bobs, so they projected the film across the top of one wall and part of the ceiling. To be specific, the actors – mostly sitting...