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There's a Cozy Up With Fantasy book blast happening today, with cozy fantasy ebooks on sale for 99 cents. I picked up a bunch!

Claws and Contrivances by Stephanie Burgis. I enjoyed Scales and Sensibility, the first book of the duology, so I'm excited to get to read the second one now.

Weaving Hope by Celia Lake. I've read many of her other books and I know this one will be soothing to read during Moontime (which is due any day now).

The Season of Dragons by Tansy Rayner Roberts. It's a Pride & Prejudice retelling with dragons, I hear. Sign me tf up.

A Rival Most Vial: Potioneering for Love and Profit by R. K. Ashwick. It's MM and been on my TBR for a good while.

Elemental Affections by Jaime Ryan. It's second chances twice over: the heroine is returning to magic school and rekindling an old flame. I love a story about fixing regrets or following wistfulness to a satisfying conclusion, so I'm hoping this one will hit that spot for me.

I'm a fan of buying directly from authors and sales like these have introduced me to some new-to-me authors. \o/

So turns out I'll be jobless mid-September, not August 😅 I did the math wrong. When they said three months notice I calculated it as June, July and August. But the three months are actually June to July, July to August, and August to September.

So I'll finish in mid-September (since I was given notice mid-June). I'll get half a month's pay, around $250, more than I would if I finished in August.

Speaking of August, my dad is going to leave his current job by the start of it. So we're both going to be liminal around the same time. He said his workplace is planning to do 'restructuring' and he'd rather quit than be laid off. He's financially stable and wants to take this chance to do something he's interested in (Haskell). I'm happy for us both. But when he told me this, that night I had a stress dream in which I was telling a nonexistent coworker that I'm losing this job while someone was trying to break the door down, and I was terrified seeing the door strain against the latch. When I woke from it, I hallucinated my brother standing in the dark doorway. He disappeared when I yelled "Hey!" at him, but I was so freaked out that I couldn't sleep for a while.

Since I'm losing my job I'm going to have to make self-publishing earn for me sooner, which has significantly changed my self-publishing plans.
( How my self-publishing plans have changed )

I saw this YouTube short by Kris MF about how she was laid off from her corporate job the same week that she got her book deal, and how she's decided to take it as a sign. It comforted me. Maybe I can take this as a sign, too. I never would have opted to publish on KU unless I felt like I needed to and the only way that was going to happen was if I lost my job 🤷🏻‍♀️ I just need to give things spiritual significance to cope and fight off depression, so this is what we're going with ✨

I also got emotional over this threads post by Jordan Lynde: