Ivan is up at Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Vorpatrils-Alliance-McMaster-Bujold/dp/1451638450/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333444438&sr=1-6

The first five chapters of Cryoburn are online at Baen.

Here is a terribly intriguing review of Cryoburn.

Be still my heart!

Dear Friendslist:

Convince me I should haul my lazy ass up to Dallas next weekend to see Lois at Fencon!

OMG exciting!

I've been eagerly waiting desperately longing for this day for well over four years, so you'd think I would have something to say. But I don't seem to. The best I can do is hazily indicate my emotions using some of Lois Bujold's words:It began to be borne in upon her what a mess Tien's death was going to leave in her lap. She would be trading the ( Read more... )

If a life happens and is not chronicled in LJ, does it really exist ( Read more... )

Two days later, I can't believe how angry I still am at Rudy Guiliani and Sarah Palin for mocking community organizers.
Guiliani: He worked as a "community organizer" ... What!? [laughter] I said, okay, okay, maybe this is the first problem on the resume.

Palin: I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you ( Read more... )

If anyone noticed that I wasn't so much around for the last three or four days, blame Lois Bujold. This especially applies to you birthday kids who didn't get feted by me -- alphabet26, redmonster, heatherhobbit, and shipaholic -- and all those posts I never commented on. The truth is that I was in a Bujold daze, from her new book that came out on Tuesday. First I had to read and reread ( Read more... )