Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

 I'm sure me constantly talking shit about the Tinon books really does nothing to help my sales. Who really wants to read a book that the author is constantly bemoaning that they "have" to write, especially when the AUTHOR IS SELF-PUBLISHED AND COULD JUST LIKE, NOT DO IT. THERE IS NO CONTRACT HERE. THIS IS PERSONAL CHOICE .  But, as I've been done with my Tinon book of the year, I can breathe. Right now, I am working on Until I Fall Away , the fifth Aughts Boys book, Class B , a Pentalogy of Hell companion novel, New Match , the first in a new thriller series, and Guillaume , a standalone homage to the Lord of the Flies fanfiction.net fandom of like, 2012. And also the Tumblr fandom of the same time. If you remember that shit, or if you are currently in the Tumblr fandom, do know that Cool Bill was from my little brain, because I was reading Homestuck at the same time, thank you and goodnight.  But anyway, my point, my point is that when I'm randomizing what pr

 

 

 

 We're moving in July. The first of July, that's our date for like, moving furniture and the big stuff, but we have the current apartment through July so the seven thousand (okay, like 200 or so) plastic bags full of book wall books) don't all have to come at once. On one hand, I'm excited to organize. I love to organize. I think it's super fun. Might make some new spreadsheets. Who knows. We might go crazy.  On the other hand, dear God the fucking book wall.

 

 

 

 So! I recently came out with two new books.  Bandit Born is the final book in the Tinon trilogy. Unfortunately, this is not the end of books to be set in this world: there will be four novellas (at least) and a sequel trilogy that follows children of characters in these books. But the first arc is over. It's my attempt at a fantasy. I think I did a decent job with the characters; if only I hadn't saved all the worldbuilding for... well... this book.  Graduation Day is a short story/essay collection, featuring essays about like, Animorphs and American Horror Story and short stories that are mostly horror...y? I guess? They're a fun time, I think. I just feel like publishing a short story collection every year. Next year I don't know if there will be one like this, because I have been toying with the idea of writing something connected to the Pentalogy in that it's a look at the eighty divisions, so like, we see one little snippet from inside each division? By toyi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Childhood is maybe a strong word; teenage favorite? Either way, I'm talking about the Gone series. First six books because I'm too nervous to read the sequel trilogy even though I do own all of them. So, for some backstory: I did own every single Gone book, in the terrible old covers (side note: I saw someone lamenting how much prettier the old covers were and I'm like ?????????), and before I left my job as a high school English teacher, I donated all of them to the school I'd been working at, because I wanted to rebuy them in hardcover. I had most of them in paperback originally; just the last two, which I believe I pre-ordered, were in hardcover.  And so this summer, I've been re-reading. And upon first cracking Gone , the first book in the series, I was a little worried, because I did not get sucked in immediately. It was a big thing of, oh, man, this was just nostalgia the whole time.  But no. No. It was not just nostalgia talking the whole time, or if it was,

 

 

 

 

 School has been out for over a week, for me, and I am happy to report that I have been productive. I think my idea of productivity is different than someone else's might be; for me, if I'm keeping up with my hobbies, which is, mostly, reading and writing and other things therein, that counts as being productive. Of course, chores and all of that count as well. but I've been keeping myself to my schedule, so let's go through that. First, I had to admit that I am a morning person, and I get up sometime between five and seven every day. I get up, and I have breakfast, and I've discovered that if I have a big breakfast with protein, you know, like you're supposed to, it holds me well until lunch, even when I'm eating it at five in the morning. Lately I've been real into breakfast burritos, but today I had fried eggs on toast and they were bomb so I might be switching up my eggs. Then I go for my morning walk and listen to the Last Podcast on the Left . I do