DOMA is dead, and a final (sniffle) Diana Wynne Jones book is going to be published! (More about the latter piece of awesomeness.) This is a good day.

Although can I just say, who gets a cold in June? DO NOT WANT. :P Oh well, soon the cold will be gone and the two aforementioned exciting developments will still be around, so yay.

I've just finished all the illustrations for The Book of Foxes! Since the writing was done already, and I've put them together, that means it is FINISHED! At least this draft! Huzzah ( Read more... )

No Flying No Tights has posted my review for Troublemaker, books one and two, by Janet Evanovich and her daughter. Fun story set in Florida. Where, by coincidence, I currently am, vacationing with my family ( Read more... )

School Library Journal linked to a couple of my No Flying No Tights reviews on its blog! Not as a feature or anything; it's as part of a list. But woo!

Recently, there's been stuff said about the treatment of women in DC comics. Stuff that seems to have some real truth behind it, and for that reason is quite depressing.

For example, female characters whose creators call them "liberated" but who are shown acting - and perhaps more obviously, posing - in ways that seem much more about the straight ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, I applied to be a reviewer for the website No Flying No Tights, which reviews graphic novels with an angle of helping librarians choose for their collections. And I'm in! (The site will be re-launching soon with new content, including my first review for them.) It's a super-cool website, and is also somewhat of a Big Deal in ( Read more... )

JUST FINISHED THE ROUGH DRAFT OF THE BOOK OF FOXES(Why does this always happen in the small hours of the morning ( Read more... )

. . . Sync is still offering free downloads of audiobooks. Next week, they're doing The Hunger Games. Check it out!

Also, have started work on my next writing project! Woo!

The first issue of Othergate is up now, including my short story, "Chasing Cars."

I've heard some good suggestions for overused and/or weak words and phrases for which you might use the Search feature when you're editing. This article mentions a few; although they don't specifically say it, you can use Search on #2 as well by looking for "It" and ( Read more... )

Out of a healthy respect for my blood pressure, I try not to freak out too much over people's mechanics errors. This is especially important online, where such errors swarm across pages, knocking out capital letters and doing cruel things to apostrophes. Like many writers, though, I have at least one pet peeve: "alot ( Read more... )