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Beware of spilling ink!
Skate is a thief, trained and owned by the local crime syndicate, the Ink. When she tries to burgle a shut-in’s home, she gets caught by the owner—a powerful undead wizard. He makes a deal with her: “borrow” books from other wizards in return for a place to stay.

Caught between her growing fondness for the wizard and her past with the crime syndicate, Skate doesn’t know where her loyalties lie. But she’d better figure it out, because there’s a new player in town, one whose magical hypnotism puts them all at risk.
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On the run!
Her mentor is dead, but he doesn’t have to stay that way. He’s left Skate a clue to bringing him back, and she and her friends are determined to follow it.

No sooner do they set out for unknown lands, however, than things get dangerous. Hot on their tail is the wizard Ossertine, furious over Skate’s part in her friend’s death and thirsty for revenge. Worse still are the attacks that come at night: dark, mysterious, and palpably evil.
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In this race against time, magic, and implacable foes, Skate must rely on her wits and her friends to save not just her mentor’s life, but also her own.
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The Marvel movies are like bananas

3/2/2019

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Revision update: I’m running through each chapter of the manuscript and trimming it down, with the (soft) goal of making each chapter half as long by taking out words and phrases. It’s a drastic benchmark that I haven’t reached on any of my chapters, but since reaching the goal isn’t really the point here anyway, I’m good with it.

Unrelated to anything, I’m in a weird headspace with regard to the Marvel cinematic universe. I’ve only seen three Iron Man movies and the first Thor film. I just cannot commit to watching anything else because there’s so much there, and trying to keep up with each new movie’s references, callbacks, and context means I’m going to have to buckle in for hours and hours of movie watching in a very particular order to really get what is going on in each one. For instance, with the third Iron Man movie, I had to look stuff up afterwards to make sense of the stuff that was being talked about. For most of it, I could only be half-tuned to the plot because I had so many gaps.

I run into this problem with any long-running series. It’s the main reason I have started Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. There are fourteen books in that series, and not one of them is shorter than two hundred thousand words. I can’t commit to that! I barely have enough time to read as it is; getting locked into a four-million-word saga is just too big of an ask. I get anxious buying too many bananas at the grocery store for fear of them rotting before I can eat them, and this is way worse than that. I don’t really have a point to all of this, just making note of I problem I’ve got.
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