When I checked my email tonight after getting home from work, I wondered why I suddenly had three kudos and a comment on Loving Bonds, the Dark Is Rising fic I wrote for Yuletide 2009. (It's about Blodwen and John Rowlands, and how Bran came to stay at Clwyd despite Owen Davies being clearly unfit as a father after Gwen disappeared.) It is not, ( Read more... )

Yuletide reveal day! I got a little carried away and wrote six stories this year. I have listed them in the order I wrote them.

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I kind of suck at timeliness, but here are some Yuletide recs, in fandoms A through F. I will write up more later, but probably not tonight; I have to be at work early in the morning.

( fandoms include The Acts of Caine - Stover, American Gods - Gaiman, Arthurian mythology, Bridge to Terabithia - Paterson, Calvin and Hobbes, Damar - McKinley, The Dark Is Rising - Cooper, The Darkangel trilogy - Pierce, Deerskin - McKinley, Dragaera - Brust, fairy tales, and the Firebringer trilogy - Pierce )

1. We did not do inventory after all -- PM decided we just did not have enough staff on such short notice, so she put it off until next week. That was okay; we used the extra staff we did have (because she extended ET's and MS's hours) to get stuff done that often is put off until Tuesday.

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2. Today was bitterly cold with gusts of wind up ( Read more... )

I am back in Ithaca. My mom and I drove up yesterday morning/afternoon, having left slightly earlier than we otherwise might have for fear of freezing rain and icy roads. But it turned out that other than a 6-10 mile stretch right where I-380 splits off from I-80 (where all the trees were coated in a quarter inch of ice, and bowed down under the ( Read more... )

I wrote six stories for Yuletide this year. If you guess any of them before the author reveal, I will write you a ficlet of your choice ( Read more... )

MERRY CHRISTMAS! (and/or winter solstice holiday of your choice *grin ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I'm pretty easy to please -- so long as you write a grammatically correct story that isn't simply a long sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get a fic in one of the fandoms I asked for. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version.

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This is just a brief note to say that while I have been up late enough to see the archive open, I recognize that I am not quite in a sane state of mind, and I would like to approach my (two!!!) gift stories with the benefit of at least some sleep. So I will review and point them out to people tomorrow morning, probably between breakfast and the ( Read more... )

Wrote two more Yuletide treats. That makes six stories total. Granted, they are not all full-length (i.e., at least 1,000 words), but still. That is a lot of writing in very little time ( Read more... )