By 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 […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | November 8, 2017 | Category writing
His Quiet Agent (formally The Agency) was an accident of a book. Not to say I accidentally wrote a book, but rather that the book I thought I was writing became something completely different. Currently it’s my best reviewed book (with one exception of one dude from Canada) which is nice but also makes me […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | November 4, 2017 | Category writing
Tactical Submission is now available for Pre-Order and will be delivered November 10th! SWAT commander Jack Burnside is haunted by his craving to kneel before another man. Of all the things he hates about himself – his overtly masculine size and strength, his blue eyes, his insecurities – it is the need to submit that […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | November 2, 2017 | Category writing
SWAT commander Jack Burnside is haunted by his craving to kneel before another man. Of all the things he hates about himself – his overtly masculine size and strength, his blue eyes, his insecurities – it is the need to submit that he fears will destroy him. Doctor Isaac Bard is close to achieving his […]
Read MoreBy Ada Soto | October 19, 2017 | Category Mental Health
Last week I went to the optometrist because the UV coating on my glasses was peeling off. This was annoying, to say the least. It made the lenses blurry and it’s coming into summer and any and all UV protection is very important in New Zealand. I have terrible vision to begin with. I’m incredibly […]
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