This Post is Total Filler...

But yes, I've run out of time to really give you a blog here. So, instead, I'm giving you a weird regional food. 

Y'gotta love Philly. Right? 

Right?! 















Chocolates by Mueller offers these as a gag/spoof/weird holder over tradition of some sort at the Reading Terminal. If you're ever in Philadelphia, you must make Reading Terminal Market a stop on your tours. It's plain nuts in there. And there's some really amazing food to boot. 

Meanwhile, I'm editing my heart out and with any luck, y'all will have the second book THIS WEEK. *Mwah* 

...oops. A little bit of my Southern showing there. Lemme just tuck that back in~~ 

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Moving Right Along--

Very soon, my dear loyal followers, you'll start getting barraged by a whole NEW Volume of the Apathetic Avengers! 

We're on the fine editing portion and I'm gonna make sure that you can stop hearing about Volume 1, and start getting bombarded by Volume 2: Welcome to Downing City. 

The Apathetic Avengers are starting to figure out their team dynamic-- as well meeting some of the Big Bad Villains that rule in Downing City. 

... and then there's junior year. 

Keep your eyes peeled! We're talking short time here! Meanwhile-- 

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Editing Gets Furry Around Here...

So it's editing time. Damn the Topedoes, full speed ahea-- Oh.

Seems like someone decided it was time to get in my way. She's done this a few times, but usually when I was on the floor or on the bed, editing. This time, she climbed right up on the couch and got in my way.  

So, anyway. We're on our way with the new one. Success includes 47 out of 114 pages of hand edited page inputted (? is that even a word?) into the digital world. We're still finding our editing rhythm, but I think that we might have an idea of what needs to happen. 

"Welcome to Downing City" Faction Volume 2 is coming!!  Soon!

And with luck on your side, "The Natural Order of Things" Faction Vol 3 will be hot on it's tail. 

Ooh, how about WIP line, my treat? From "Bus", in Volume 2. I'm such a tease! 

“Don’t be so negative, Rowan,” Susan said.

“I don’t know if you noticed, but someone was just killed, stuffed with explosive and blown up,” Rachel said, not breaking her stride. “I think it’s OK if I say that we’re not on the upside of this fight.” 

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What's Shaking

We've got two things you need to know: 

1. Still working diligently on "Welcome to Downing City"-- and just realized that I left the edited copy on the floor of the living room. Craaaaaaaaaaap. 

2. We have an updated copy of "Apathetic Avengers" coming soon. There are some typos that got away from me and it makes me sad that those imperfections wreck the flow of the book. My humblest apologies. I will let you know when it's up

...nook people, once this update rolls through the system, you'll automatically be able to download it. I don't know about you Kindle and Kobo peeps; I'll find out. 

Quick hello to our international visitors, as well! We don't know who all of you are, but thanks for coming along for the ride: UK, Germany, Russia, India, Ukraine, Aruba, Philippines and Australia (hi, Mike)!! 

Time for another teaser? I think so.

This is from "New Year's", in Vol 5, Truce:

“Fernwad, you’re a genius. Susan, do what he says! What’s the rest of your plan, Edgar?”
“Edgar smash?”

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Favorite Line of the Moment

Well, first thing is first. 

If you all remember that back in one of our earlier blogs, we mentioned how we structured the whole story: Year One, Part 1 and 2 and all that good stuff. Back then (what was that? late December? Because we've been at this SO long...) we said that Year One Part 2 would have 2 volumes. 

Well, Faithful Readers, apparently I can't keep my fingers in check and Simon can't stop his smart @$$ remarks, and we've written enough in the past four weeks that we are adding another volume. So Year One Part 2 will have Volumes 4, 5 and 6, and we hope not long after to have The Lost Stories Volumes following. 

Yeay us! 

On to some new features: 

We are going to introduce you to each of the major characters one at a time so that you get to know them better. We think that this will make it interesting for you to follow along with our characters as the make it through school and life and superheroing. That is coming up in the next week or so.

We're still writing, obviously, so once in a while we're going to post a line or interaction that we really, really liked, and tease you with it. Starting now. 

From Consumption, Vol 4: 

“You’re not going to die from a bullet, you’re going die from a biscuit.” 

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My Secret Identity

Yeah, I totally stole the title from the old TV show. If you don't know about the old TV show, you're missing out on some quality Jerry O'Connell crap. Honest. Go YouTube it or something. 

At least we don't use AquaNet to propel our superheroes through the air. 

Anyway.

I've been following a few Indie Authors on Twitter. *waves* And I've noticed a humorous trend with nearly all of us. We tweet proudly and hashtag-fully about our stories, trying to find people who would enjoy our stories, or at least hit the blog. (I like big blogs and I cannot lie.) 

Then, a moment or a tweet later, there's a new tweet. About real life. 

-"Why would you put the marinated #artichokes with the leftover #Easter Candy? And why is there still #leftover Easter Candy?" 

-"Did you see that horrible dress on Big Celebrity on the red carpet? #barfaroni" 

-"I really don't like when people take credit for the report I just spent 2 days on #jerkusmaximus"

-"Time for a long hot bath. Yes, that will make me feel a little better, I think. #LazyDayOffWork"
-"Healthcare Company is a raging hemorrhoid #douchewaffle" 

...Ok, the last one is mine. 

So here we are on one post:
Come and check out #ApatheticAvenger- a #superhero story about #teenagers in #Iowa #YA #Nook #Kindle #kobo

And the next post is: 
OMG, what is up with the idiots in this office? #corporate #hell

I'm just starting to feel like you all are seeing my secret identity, or something. An accidental flash of the 'S' on my chest.

So be good with the information. Remember that I wear the mask to protect my friends and family and people in my Twitter Feed.

And please. #RT :) 

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Let's Chat! with J. Rose Alexander

Welcome once again, loyal fans. Today, Simon has a few question for J. Rose, since turn-about is fair play.

Simon: Tell us about yourself?
J. Rose: I like cheese doodles and chocolate milk. At the same time.

Simon: Have you ever cried over something you’ve written?
J. Rose: Yes. mostly because it sucked like a vacuum in a 220 outlet.

Simon: What would the FBI say if they went over your google search history?
J. Rose: "Someone called J. Edgar, we got a live one here."

Simon: Who is your favorite Apathetic Avenger? Why?
J. Rose: Laura. No B-S, straight up kinda chick who would kill you as soon as save you.

Simon: Do you have any works that you're planning to publish solo?
J. Rose: Yes. As soon as we're solid with Volumes 2 thru 6, I'm going to do the spit and polish on one I have laying around.

Simon: What made you decide that you wanted to work on Faction?
J. Rose: I had about 8 other projects going at the same, there was some stress at work, which was technically a new job, I was suffering from some severe homesickness, my husband was still pretty messed up and there was the fact that we were living in a roach infested pit in Virginia, so I thought I would add a little more to the poop-pile. 

Simon: When do you consider a story “done”?
J. Rose: Well, the subtleties of writing allow for many stages of done. Much like the Lord of the Rings, which has several points at which the story is "done" (at last count, the movie has seven endings) While the bulk of the story is complete before Sam and Frodo are rescued by the Eagles (which, btw-- where the hell did those come from and why didn't they just fly them in?) there are loose ends that must be tied up as in any good story. So while the bulk of the work is done when I write the words "the end", the tough part of continuing life without my pointer finger begins and we start the clean up.

Hobbits are disgusting. You should try mopping that floor after breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies and luncheon while trying to get supper, tea and dinner ready. Ugh.

Simon: Why do you enjoy writing?
J. Rose: It's not so much enjoy as being compelled. And if I don't, I start calling my co-workers Edgar and Rachel.

Simon: Why can’t we have Megazords?
J. Rose: That's classified.

So there you have it. A little more, relatively speaking, about your authors. You should sit in on our conversations. We came up with a whole story idea because someone off-handedly mentioned that Edgar should be consuming about 40,000 calories a day.

We're going to head off for the weekend. We hope to have the next volumes up in the next two weeks, so keep an eye out!

Meanwhile, you know the drill:



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