Linzé Brandon's Blog

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Happy 2026 to you! I think it is still appropriate to give new year's wishes in January. 😉 Although if your year started like mine, things just picked up where they left off in December - fast paced, and bordering on overwhelming. That was after we got the house sorted.

On 31 December we started hearing arcing of the electrical connections inside the house. Since we are both engineers, we tried to see if we could figure out what was going on. Neither of us could. It got...

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With life still grinding at a pace I can hardly keep up with, am I happy to report that I have finished the Novel November challenge. It feels like a huge achievement, and on some level it is, but with everything going on, it is just that much bigger, you know?

To celebrate the completion of the draft manuscript of my tenth novel in the Nations of Peace series, you can get all the published books in the series (and a few others) either free or 75% off by using the coup...

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   My tenth novel is behind schedule...I might have mentioned that in a previous post. Well, I wrote it a while (years cough cough) ago and when it came time to edit for publication, I was bored to tears from about halfway. Only one solution for the problem: rewrite the boring half.

   But I have more writing experience now, so the boring half expanded and lots of things are now happening that Anoré and Allyson have to deal with, including their relationship. Of course...

Synopsis

One-Shot, an Indigenous naturopathic insemination expert, is teetering on the brink of sanity. His life takes a sudden turn when he's tasked with transporting his grandfather's ashes from Pittsburgh, PA, to their ancestral reservation.

As he embarks on this cross-country odyssey, the scars of past traumas reawaken. The highways become a surreal landscape, where spectral figures from Native folklore and twisted horrors of a Lovecraftian nature emerge. These apparitions are not just hauntin...

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    I caused a problem for myself on multiple levels: the book I had planned to publish in December, is not finished yet. This means that it is too late to send to my editor, but the bigger issue? If you have read any of my Nations of Peace novels, you will know that somewhere in each story there is usually a binding ritual of some kind to tie the romantic partners together for life. With uneven lifespans, and not-quite-human characters, this was my solution for a hap...

Synopsis

The town of Traverse City, Michigan was everything you wanted out of a Midwest community. Nestled on the banks of Lake Michigan, the city had much to offer. When advertisements began to spread a jolly jingle for a newly opening burger joint, the town went crazy for it.

“Come on down to Chunko Town! Have a burger and meet Chunko the Clown!”

The infamous pudgy clown statue in the commercial gained notoriety quickly and had everyone ready to meet the Chunko Burger mascot.

Things took a turn fo...

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   This past week I finished the Creative Reset course with Louise Fletcher. One of the exercises we had to do was to draw blind selfies. I share a few below, but I laughed so hard when I saw the results. Some people had a really hard time doing this exercise. While I understand the difficulties people might have, I had no problem staring at my face (no make-up) to do the assignment.

                         

   Blind drawing, in case you don't know, is to draw while lo...

 BOOK FEATURETHE GREAT DICK: AND THE DYSFUNCTIONAL DEMON by Barry Maher BUY the book: AmazonSYNOPSIS

 It’s 1982. His name, Steve Witowski, is an alias. Once he was a counterculture hero. Now he’s a failed songwriter, running from the law.

And he’s just become a killer, rescuing a woman from an horrific assault by what seemed to be the strongest wino in California. Steve should keep moving. But the woman, Victoria, is beyond stunning.

Oddly, she’s recently bought a decrepit old church, with notorious...

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I have been planning to post for weeks now, but when I blink the weekend was gone and I had to tackle my tasks for the week.

https://books2read.com/u/3yyG5 But this week I sat down and made the time to write this post. Work is crazy and the feeling of being overwhelmed grabbed me and dragged me to the floor a few days ago. I didn't like it at all. But when I got one job after the other done, I basically showed a finger to the feeling and amazingly it worked!

Of course, j...

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Taking breaks are necessary for all of us, and we shouldn't forget that as creatives we need to do the same. Mine was about two weeks, until the itch to create got hold of me once more. I worked on my next book most of the time, until watercolour month started on 1 July.

As with the 100 day project, I thought to post my paintings here and only share once a week, since posting everyday requires time that I don't always have available. Then I couldn't log into my blog. Aft...