Just because I didn’t have enough social media whatchamathingies to keep me busy, I’ve also signed up for a Tumblr blog. Actually, the idea of Tumblr appeals to me a good deal, just because I find that lots of things catch my eye, but posting about them here or on Facebook or Twitter just doesn’t seem quite right. I have a tendency to download lots ( Read more... )

Oh, I had so many plans this summer for what my fall would be like. Finish up my steampunk romance WIP, redesign this website, start planning the new novel…you get the idea.

And then…my mother passed away, I was sick for almost a month, and we moved quite unexpectedly (this was a good change, but moving is still a nightmare no matter how welcome ( Read more... )

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If anyone might be wondering why I would go off and write a 25K novella based on the song “Skullcrusher Mountain” (the novella starts posting a week from Sunday…I’m so excited!), here is video proof of why Jonathan Coulton is so awesome and why every one of you who counts yourself as even remotely geeky and nerdy needs to glom on his oeuvre, like, ( Read more... )

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I can tell there’s a shift going on.

First off, I changed my hair color (which means those author photos I spent all that money on are now out of date, but oh, well). It’s actually still not quite where I want it to be - I have a follow-up hair appointment next week - but still, it’s a change I decided to make and followed through with.

Erik and I ( Read more... )

So it wasn't enough to start off the week with projectile vomiting all over the bathroom I just cleaned that morning. And it wasn't enough that I missed two days of work, resulting in the cancellation of my trip to San Francisco this coming weekend because now I have to ship the Community Services Guide on Friday instead of Thursday. And it wasn't ( Read more... )