By Ada Soto | March 28, 2020 | Category parenting, Proper Blog, writing
Hello Everyone! How’s everyone holding up out there? If you’re like me you have suddenly become a home-schooling house spouse with zero productivity outside of keeping the kid from gnawing through the fence in an escape attempt. Maybe you are stuck at home with only your own thoughts and are thinking about finally writing that […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | November 19, 2018 | Category Uncategorized
When I was telling the story of my mother and the Pacific Crest Trail, I mentioned that one of the things she did upon becoming a grandmother was to join the County Volunteer Search and Rescue team. Some might have found this odd but after 13 years as a Camp Fire Girl and another 18 […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | August 19, 2018 | Category Uncategorized
When I finished His Quiet Agent I didn’t think anyone would read it let alone demand more. Here’s more. Four thousand words from Martin’s POV available at Amazon and just about Everywhere Else. Agent Martin Grove is in pain every minute of the day while his wounds slowly heal. As soon as one injury […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | July 30, 2018 | Category Uncategorized
Since some people have been asking here is an update on my mother’s attempt to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. After a couple of weeks resting up from a twisted rib and taking a practice hike through the East Bay Hills she got a lift back up to the trail. Not at the exact point […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | July 5, 2018 | Category Proper Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve talked about my mother a few times on this blog. She’s an interesting person. She has the personality of someone who should be in the history books like Sally Ride or Amelia Earhart, but that personality has been stuck in the life of a Silicon Valley tech writer for the majority of her life. […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | March 9, 2018 | Category Uncategorized
At long last the audiobook version of His Quiet Agent is available! You can currently get it at Audiobooks.com, Audible, iBooks, eStories, Libro.FM, NOOK, and Scribd. It should pop up a few more places over the next few weeks including Google Play. It has also been distributed to several library services so it just might become available at your […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | December 20, 2017 | Category writing
In case you missed my squeaking about it on social media there are some wonderful people out there who nominated His Quiet Agent for Member’s Choice Awards. Best Military/Intelligence Officer/Spies (Soldier/Armed Forces/Intelligence Officer/Spy/Assassin/Mercenary) AND Best Book of the Year! There are stacks of amazing books in both categories but I want to give all my […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | December 20, 2017 | Category Mental Health, Proper Blog
Since being officially diagnosed as bipolar in my late twenties (no on ones’ surprise) I have been described as “High Functioning” by three different psychiatric professionals. The first was the psychiatrists that gave me my official diagnoses and first medication. I liked him. He understood that as a creative I had a slightly different take […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | November 11, 2017 | Category writing
I once attended a lecture on how to write a novel in a month. It was given by an author who had nearly a hundred books to her name and absolutely knew what she was talking about. The talk was geared for Category authors who wanted to or already wrote for the big houses but […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | November 10, 2017 | Category writing
A few years back there was a bit of a kerfuffle online over if books should have content warnings. The actual reasonable debate lasted about 30 seconds before it devolved into screams of Snowflakes, SJW oppression, and ‘but if people know what kind of crap is in my books they might not buy them’. I […]
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