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I'm Angela Korra'ti, a.k.a. Anna the Piper, and I'm a science fiction and fantasy author! I write as Angela Highland for Carina Press, and Angela Korra'ti for my self-pubbed works! This is my tumblr. Expect LOLcats, pics, and videos, especially of pretty Canadian bouzouki players! Come find me elsewhere at angelahighland.com, and I'm on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ as annathepiper as well.

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Important update: angelahighland.info becoming my primary site

Important site update! I'm changing my primary author site location from angelahighland.com to angelahighland.info, and this post has some details about how that's going to work. If you're following .com via RSS, now's the time to change to the .info site instead!

Hey all, just so everyone knows, due to the ongoing web server instability on my home network, keeping angelahighland.com as my primary author website has become problematic. So I’m going to convert angelahighland.info to be my new primary author site.

If you’re following angelahighland.com posts directly via RSS, I invite you to follow angelahighland.info instead as I’m going to start putting…

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End of 2019 book roundup

End of 2019 book roundup

This post is going up as my first in 2020, but it’s all the remaining books acquired during 2019, so these count to 2019’s overall count!

Acquired from Audible in audiobook form:

The A.I. Who Loved Me, by Alyssa Cole. Contemporary romance. Grabbed this one as I’ve been very fond of Cole’s work lately, and also because this is an audio-only release.

Signal, by Tony Peak. SF. Grabbed this one just…

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Movie review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

My review of The Rise of Skywalker! Picoreview: I'm ambivalent but leaning in the direction of liking it. Spoilers abound in this post, so be aware!

The Rise of Skywalker

On Christmas Day, Dara and I did our annual “go see a movie” thing. And, as should surprise exactly none of you who follow me and my postings, that movie was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

It’s taken me a few days to get a post together because I’ve been mulling over my thoughts on it, hardcore. The picoreview: I liked several things about it, and actively hated a few…

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So yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything besides an ebook report, I know! This post is not actually going to change that, but it’s taken me several days to compose it and I really need to get it out of my queue. So here you go!

The Candle and the Flame

Acquired from Kobo:

The Widow of Rose House, by Diana Biller. Gothic/historical romance. Nabbed it because of this excellent reviewov…

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Breaking radio silence book roundup

A rather packed ebook roundup this time, notably featuring a historical look at 18th century POCs in London AND an F/F historical romance!

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, and I’ve gotten quite a few books lately from various sources. Time for another roundup post!

First up, I’ve seen some Romanceland brouhaha going around Twitter this week about yet another round of “but but but THERE WEREN’T ANY BLACK PEOPLE IN THE REGENCY!” One of the many tweets I happened to see from author Courtney Milan on the topic was an RT…

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I'm launching a Patreon!

Important news: I'm launching a Patreon! This is part "let's see if a Patreon will help me kickstart my writing" and part "excuse to try a serialized story". Details on this post!

Dara told me today that if I ever wanted to launch a Patreon, today is the last day to get an account grandfathered in under their current fee structure before they change things around.

Between that, and feeling like my writing really needs a jumpstart, I’ve decided to try this and see if a Patreon would actually help me get going again.

So as of today, y’all, I now have a Patreon up! In keeping…

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Joint movie review: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (ALL THE SPOILERS)

Avengers: Endgame

Last year when Infinity War dropped, I put up the post that has my non-spoilery review. Y’all may have noticed that I never got around to posting a full review of the movie. Sorry about that!

But now Avengers: Endgame has dropped. And when my household along with long-time friend Mimi went to see it, Meems asked me whether I liked Infinity War better than Endgame. She preferred

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Post-Norwescon ebook roundup

Post-Norwescon ebook roundup: Three more ebooks I got lately: Cory Doctorow, Ann Leckie, C.E. Murphy!

Gotten from Tor.com’s monthly ebook promotion:

Walkaway, by Cory Doctorow. SF. A tale about a group of people who decide to walk away from their futuristic society and what happens when they go off the grid.

Gotten from Kobo:

The Cardinal Rule, by C.E. Murphy. Romantic suspense. This is a book I bought ages ago when it was published under the pen name Cate Dermody. Catie has now revised it and…

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End of March ebook roundup

End of March ebook roundup: Latest ebook roundup. Scalzi, Milan, McKinley, and more Horatio Hornblower!

Purchased from Amazon:

The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley. This was a Kindle daily deal, and while I don’t normally buy ebooks from Amazon, for $2.99 I’ll make an exception. This is of course one of my all-time favorites of McKinley’s, and I was happy to get an ebook copy.

Purchased from Kobo:

Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi, by, well, John Scalzi. Nabbed this because I…

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Trying to get back on the horse

Trying to get back on the horse: in which I talk about doing something writing-related for the first time in months.

Y’all will have noticed I have done bugger all with any writing projects for a while. Believe me, I’ve noticed this too. My creativity fell right back into a pit when I got laid off from the Day Job this past September, and I’ve had a bitch of a time trying to haul it back out.

But tonight, I returned to try to edit more of the third edition of Faerie Blood. Edits on Chapter 13 are now complete.…

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Bilingual Silmarillion Reread, Part 4

Bilingual Silmarillion Reread, Part 4

So far in the Bilingual Silmarillion Reread, I’ve made it up through Chapter 2 of the Quenta Silmarillion. (See the last post, Part 3.) The Valar have established the world and built the Lamps to light it, only to have them torn down by Melkor. Yavanna’s upped the lighting game by creating the Two Trees, while Tulkas has driven off Melkor for the time being. Meanwhile, Aulë’s made some Dwarves,…

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Movie review: Captain Marvel

In which I sound off on the new #CaptainMarvel movie! Spoiler alert: loved it. Additional alert: SPOILERS ALL OVER THIS POST AND ITS COMMENTS. Proceed with care!

Captain Marvel

My household went to see Captain Marvel this past Thursday night. We’re not normally an opening-weekend movie-viewing type of household, but this time I wanted to make an exception. And I was deeply delighted that we did.

Because, spoiler-free picoreview: CAROL DANVERS IS MAGNIFICENT AND I MUST SEE THIS MOVIE AGAIN.

Behind the cut you will find ALL THE SPOILERS. If you haven’t seen…

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Because apparently I needed retail therapy ebook roundup

A bunch of ebooks have shown up in my purchase histories, because apparently I needed some ebook retail therapy! Here's what I've picked up, featuring Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, Jim C. Hines, Stephanie Burgis, Samantha Shannon, and more.

I’ve been slurping up a high number of ebooks lately, so here’s a quick roundup about that.

Picked up from Amazon:

Beat to Quarters, by C.S. Forester, which is one of the Horatio Hornblower novels. We decided to read some Hornblower in book club, since gfish has headed off to hang out on a tall ship for a few weeks, and it seemed thematically appropriate.

Grabbed this from Amazon because I…

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Bilingual Silmarillion Reread, Part 3

Bilingual Silmarillion Reread, Part 3

Welcome back to my Bilingual Silmarillion Reread! Previous posts in this series are Part 1 and here.

In this post, I’ll begin talking about the Quenta Silmarillion, the part of the book that deals with the First Age of Middle-Earth. This is the section that has all my major favorite bits, too. But I’ll get to those in due time!

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And, back again

We’re being all yo-yo-y over here with the power going up and down and up and down and back up again. But now at least, we are again back.

For those of you who didn’t see my angelahighland.info post earlier, we got some rain in this afternoon. Things were fine until we heard a loud pop somewhere near our house, at which point our power went down. I got onto the PSE app on my phone and reported…

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Shoveling out from under the inbox ebook roundup

Shoveling out from under the inbox ebook roundup, featuring titles by Alyssa Cole, Stephanie Burgis, Victoria Helen Stone, and N.K. Jemisin!

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy All these storms in the Seattle area have meant my inbox has been piling up along with the snow! So here’s another ebook roundup post to help clear out the queue.

Acquired from Amazon:

Jane Doe, by Victoria Helen Stone. This one is a thriller about a woman getting revenge on the man responsible for killing her best friend. Saw this get talked up very positively on the…

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Main angelahighland.com site back online; also, Rebels on sale!

Main angelahighland.com site back online; also, Rebels on sale!

Our power came back a short while ago, so that means my web server is back up again! And THAT means angelahighland.com is once more reachable.

And I said this over on the post I put up on angelahighland.info, but for those of you who didn’t see me post it there, or see my last post on Dreamwidth: the Rebels of Adalonia books are currently ON SALE for 99 cents each right now!

Since sale prices on…

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