Rosalind Hartmann's Blog: Rosalind Hartmann: author and brown girl
January 23, 2021
2021
I wrote this and more. www.SanguineAffliction.com releasing February 2021 and I’m back on twitter to promote my self published book, as well as other authors. I’m also on Facebook and still on Amazon. The Angry Crayon is (still) open and I’d just like to say, after almost 20 years, I win Norrath Studio. I win.
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Caught in the Moment by Brandy Walker @Brandy_W Mother-in-law approved! A Hidden Fire: Elemental Mysteries Book 1 by @E__Hunter Kat Snell (Graphics, Website, Ebook designer) - DesignKitty.me Celticwolfwalker.deviantart.com - Graphic Novel review by ROzCopyright © Rosalind Hartmann [2021], All Right Reserved. 2021.
October 15, 2017
“What color are your ideas?” or “Are we just too damn sensitive?”
“What color are your ideas?” by GREER MACALLISTER
“The old chestnut “write what you know” is well-worn advice for improving the believability of your fiction, but is it more than that? How comfortable should you be basing your next book on a culture, gender, sexuality, race, class or other background that isn’t yours? This question flared up well beyond the writing community this summer when HBO announced that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, showrunners of the incredibly successful (and soon to end) Game of Thrones, are developing a series called Confederate – which “takes place in an alternate timeline… in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution.”
The outcry was immediate. Two white writers taking on an exploration of one of history’s greatest atrocities against black people didn’t sit well with a lot of potential viewers, including writer Roxane Gay, who addressed it with an op-ed piece in the New York Times called “I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction.” She wrote, “Each time I see a reimagining of the Civil War that largely replicates what actually happened, I wonder why people are expending the energy to imagine that slavery continues to thrive when we are still dealing with the vestiges of slavery in very tangible ways.”
Honestly, I was intrigued with the idea of an alternate timeline where the South won and slavery had evolved into our time. What IS the difference between white writers writing this or black writers? I think the potential content embedded with conflict from both perspectives can be enlightening, thought provoking, as well as entertaining.
We are a society who thinks nothing of our fellow humans and only of immediate satisfaction. We are a mentally selfish society, steeped heavily in technology. A society that, 8 years ago, saw promise in racial relations, but in this recent year, found the strife that separated us as human beings and labeled us as colors. Why not explore this type of thought?
What’s the difference of imagining the world favoring the dinosaurs and not humans? Gender role reversal? If the Nazis had won? Think about it – while you still have the freedom to do so.
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How to market your book. Wait, I should probably finish it first... Showing, not telling... I'm being featured on Heather Long's Blog - Thursday Jan 24, 2013!! Ch 1-5 exerpt and #FREE #Download #Blood Memory: Book 1 Coolest short story I have ever read - by Oliver EmbertonCopyright © Rosalind Hartmann ["What color are your ideas?" or "Are we just too damn sensitive?"], All Right Reserved. 2017.April 23, 2015
Blood Memory: Origins
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Werewolf romance in a world silently ruled by vampires. A Blood Memory brings the leader of the most notorious vampire clan and the adopted daughter of a werewolf Elder together to discover its secret. Discover the world of the Greater Pack and Clan Tacharan as Vivienne and Simon race across the globe to find the Blood Memory’s secrets while dodging bullets, avoiding explosions, and braving Siberia’s cold tundra.
Available at amazon for $2.99!
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Blood Memory: Book 2 - Beneath the Surface is free on Amazon till 10/5! If you haven't gotten your free copy yet... Take the Monkeys and Run (Barbara Marr murder mystery #1) The Duban Chronicles is Live! @Brandy_W is doing a birthday giveaway!Copyright © Rosalind Hartmann [Blood Memory: Origins], All Right Reserved. 2015.March 14, 2015
The quest for relevance and infamy continues – SUPPORT ME!
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Trying to get the word out for support. Check out my new book, an Omnibus of Book 1 and the story it should have been.
Vivienne Sena is Elder Hammerthynn’s Fixer and adopted Outcast daughter. In a world with vampires ruling from the shadows, the werewolves have migrated to the eastern seaboard of the US, and to the center of the Hammerthynn and Jameson Blood Memory.
What is the Blood Memory? An all encompassing vicious hate for one Simon Huntington, Leader of the vampire clan, Tacharan.
Vivienne is sent to the US by her adopted father and encounters who Greater Pack Beta, quasi-brother Iov Hammerthynn and his Piper Commander, Brig Jameson. The truth of the Greater Pack Alpha’s parentage has put the Beta, coincidentally his biological father, in a furious fight with the Piper Commander, and it is up to Vivienne to help them make things right. To make matters worse, Viv and Brig are drawn together by a rare werewolf love, and are bound by scents, much to their dismay.
Enter Simon Huntington, enigmatic Vampire and one of the leaders of the Vampire nation. He offers Vivienne a deal: his unlimited resources for helping him discover what the Blood Memory is, since he has no memory of a wrong he’d happily put his name to, if he actually did do it. Together they cross Northern Europe, into Siberia, on one word from her Elder father, with the Beta Hammerthynn and Commander Jameson on their trail.
What is the Blood Memory? Half the fun will be dodging the bullets and finding out.
ALSO AVAILABLE!! Blood Memory: Beneath the Surface (book 2)
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Book 2 - tentative release date!!!! Blood Memory: Book 1 now available Author Feature 'Cover of Darkness' by @cupgrease Gregory Delaurentis @GoddessFish The Outer Rim - Part 7 Google ranking - I WIN!Copyright © Rosalind Hartmann [The quest for relevance and infamy continues - SUPPORT ME!], All Right Reserved. 2015.March 2, 2015
Blood Memory: Origins (the story Book 1 should have been)
Now available on Amazon and Smashwords.com
Use the code RAE50 at Smashword’s checkout for 50% off during their site-wide promotion!
(Offer good through March 07, 2015)
More action, more romance, more werewolves and vampires. What can go wrong, right? Dive into the new edition of Book 1, the book that ‘should have been’. Learn how Brig and Viv meet, about the dispute tearing Brig and Hammer apart, and when Simon first meets Vivienne. Hope you enjoy it.
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A Deadly Truth by Joyce Proell guest author feature @GoddessFish Blood Memory: Book 1 now available on other platforms via @Smashwords Announcing the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award What is Sanguine Affliction?Copyright © Rosalind Hartmann [Blood Memory: Origins (the story Book 1 should have been)], All Right Reserved. 2015.February 23, 2015
Excerpt from Blood Memory: Origins
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“I don’t know what hurt me worse, Hammer – you breaking the Alpha’s trust or you not being able to tell me after what we’ve been through.” Brig looked away, swallowing the large lump in his throat. “I know there are some secrets you just can’t tell, but,” Brig felt a large tear spill from his eye and he quickly wiped at it, clearing his throat, “I might have been upset then, but you’re still my cousin, Hams. You have always been closer to me than my own brothers, and I love you. You were such a little
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June 24, 2014
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Admittedly the movie drew me to search out the book it was based on. I should have known better to think the Hollywood version was anything it’s predecessor, but I was still pleased to read this book.
I won’t nitpick the differences between the movie and book. However, I will say that, despite the obvious differences that you pick up immediately, the book’s premise is pretty damn interesting. It’s been likened to a ‘scifi Groundhog Day’. One soldier spends months preparing for the day he unceremoniously dies. There is nothing glorious
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Comments: 0 (Zero), Be the first to leave a reply!You might be interested in this: What is Sanguine Affliction? @Smashwords offers a new option - #Series Author Accomplice - Brandy Walker The Moonlighting Effect - why Simon and Viv wouldn't work... Added more character biosCopyright © Rosalind Hartmann [All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka], All Right Reserved. 2014.
Blade of the Samuari by @Susanspann
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Master ninja Hiro Hattori is trying to sleep when he has an unexpected visit from his friend Kazu, a fellow shinobi and member of the same ninja clan working undercover at the shogunate. Kazu says that Saburo, the Shogun’s cousin, has been stabbed to death within the walls of the Shogun’s palace with Kazu’s dagger, and that though he is innocent, he fears he will be blamed for the murder. He begs Hiro’s help in escaping the city. But before he can flee, Hiro and Father Mateo, the
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Comments: 0 (Zero), Be the first to leave a reply!You might be interested in this: Download 'Blood Memory: Book 1' for FREE 'Keeping up with your characters' - #BloodMemory origins Goodreads giveaway coming soon! Lissa Matthews Blog feature - Tuesday Jan 22, 2013! All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi SakurazakaCopyright © Rosalind Hartmann [Blade of the Samuari by @Susanspann], All Right Reserved. 2014.
April 19, 2014
The Outer Rim – Part 9 is up!
Part 9 – As if things weren’t already bad.
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The Outer Rim - Part 7 Book 3 - first round of edits done and an excerpt from Chapter 1. Rules for Writing Good Dialogue Download 'Blood Memory: Book 1' for FREE Mother-in-law approved!Copyright © Rosalind Hartmann [The Outer Rim - Part 9 is up!], All Right Reserved. 2014.March 30, 2014
The Angry Crayon presents: The Hunger Games Mafia!
http://www.theangrycrayon.com/f/threads/11312-Hunger-Games-Mafia-Sign-up
http://www.theangrycrayon.com/f/threads/11312-Hunger-Games-Mafia-Sign-up
For those of you that remember, The Angry Crayon is hosting another Mafia game. A last man standing, kill your friend, lit game with murder, mayhem, intrigue, and lots of writing.
You create a character within the guidelines, wait for your ‘role’ (townie, mafia, Godfather, doctor, sheriff, and if we’re lucky, the Serial Killer! Mafia know who other Mafia are, townies (the innocents) have no clue. Title players either put the hit on someone (godfather), Identify someone as either mafia or not mafia (Sheriff), or straight up murderize someone (Serial Killer). Everyone votes at a designated time to kill who they think is ‘mafia’, and then we sit and wait.
All played on The Angry Crayon, the Mafia will have a super squirrel facebook page in which to communicate. 100% secret – only the Mafia can see and no one can see the members.
If you don’t play this time (and you really should), definitely keep an eye on the murderizing and accusations – hell, that’s half the fun!!! See you there!
http://www.theangrycrayon.com/f/threads/11312-Hunger-Games-Mafia-Sign-up
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Part 8 Testing a new Gravatar Free on Amazon till 11/9 Craving More (Tiger Nip) by @Brandy_W (Brandy Walker) - Book Review by ROz 8 wake up calls - guest post from MarcandAngel HackLife.comCopyright © Rosalind Hartmann [The Angry Crayon presents: The Hunger Games Mafia!], All Right Reserved. 2014.Rosalind Hartmann: author and brown girl
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