I finished my rewrite of Queen & Tower last night and sent it off to first readers. Yay!

Wait, you say; haven’t I heard that before?

Yes. Yes you have. Why, it was just October when I said much the same thing.

But now! It is ever so much finished-er!

I don’t even know how many times I have finished rewriting this novel. It’s almost as impossible a ( Read more... )

Oh, the website/email troubles and woes I had, let me tell you. Down for hours at a time, day after day. NOT GOOD. DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD.

So my brilliant web designer has begun the process of moving me off of Bluehost and into having my website and email hosted by Google-less than half the price AND I can keep my same email address (because I own this ( Read more... )

So here is the post with the less-good things that have happened over the last while…the biggest being the departure of my parents’ Little Dog, who headed off to the Great Hearth in the Sky, after being their faithful companion for fourteen years.

His name actually was Elmo, but I always called him Little Dog here, because, well, he was a little dog ( Read more... )

I told you yesterday that this week got interrupted by a thing: here is the thing.

So my “first” novel, meaning the first novel that got published, not the first novel I wrote (oh no), was an odd little thing called Eel River. A hippie horror novel, though I’m not a horror writer (and not even that much of a hippie either).

It was published by a ( Read more... )

It’s good to be home again. Yes, we’ve been home for over a week; and yes, I haven’t told you anything about the rest of the Month On The Road Trip; but, yeah. Here we are.

Vancouver continued to be delightful. We walked a lot, and figured out the transit, and even figured out the driving-around. We figured out that sushi there is AMAZING and CHEAP ( Read more... )

Yes, there are other things besides New Nephew going on in my life.
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I sort of don’t remember what that was I mentioned weeks ago, the exciting things that I couldn’t tell you about yet. Okay, I remember one of them, and I still can’t tell you about it (but hopefully soon!), but the most exciting thing that’s happened since then wasn’t actually supposed to happen for a few months. So I know it wasn’t that.
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Monday started with my email being down, for hours, no explanation, no time estimate for it being fixed. And who-knows-how-many messages bounced back to their senders-I only know about the folks who wrote me on my gmail account (which I dislike and rarely use) to tell me their initial messages bounced.

Meh! Makes me look OH SO VERY PROFESSIONAL, ( Read more... )

RadCon was very awesome! We had a splendid time! And we are exhausted. But happy.

This isn’t a con report. I’m no good at those things anyway. But this IS to say that, of the 19 prints that Mark put in the art show, 11 sold, including 2 that went to auction (!). We know what one of them sold for (30% more than minimum bid); we had to leave before ( Read more... )