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Failure to Comply: pre-pub diaries #2

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Jun 24, 2024
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闫威 (Yan Wei), 爱之入髓 (Love from the Innermost of Marrow), 2013.

Much has happened since the last pre-pub diaries (a series for paid subscribers where I show some scrungly, cutting-room-floor stuff from Failure to Comply. One, we have a new cover, and two, we have some incredible blurbs, in addition to the existing reviews [2]! We also have more places to pre-order, namely, Bookshop [link is an affiliate, so I get a teeny bit of money!].

Failure to Comply: Updates & A Giveaway

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June 19, 2024
Failure to Comply: Updates & A Giveaway

Hello all! A brief interruption to our regularly-scheduled recommendations to bring you some news from publishing-land. First, I can’t believe Failure to Comply drops [with the shiny new cover you see above] in less than two months!

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I’m not going to rehash everything here. For that, you can check out my updates newsletter and website. Instead, let’s get to the good stuff.

First, something that is actually in the book:

On the surface, a body bloats
grows wide with nothing
bleeds an absent excess.
I am told the shake 
will help me concentrate. 
I am told I am inadequate
and sink
into inadequate as though I know 
and I know 
it was a word
made for me	

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