We've already sold half of Spooky's Alabaster: Pale Horse pendants, and my thanks to everyone who bought one yesterday. Only three remain. Originally, the money was to go towards getting me a new iPod to replace dear, departed Inara. However, now the proceeds from the pendants can go to other expenses, as the postman brought me a new iPod yesterday ( Read more... )

I made my first entry to LiveJournal on April 15th, 2004. We lived in Atlanta at the time, at the Kirkwood Lofts. The LJ was meant only as a mirror for my journal at Blogger. But after August 31, 2005, I stopped updating at Blogger. And here we are, all these years and millions of words later, at #4,000 ( Read more... )

Sunny today, and currently 44˚.

My new moron detector: "totes."

I did not, yesterday, mean to start some sort of kerfuffle by reporting Threshold's first royalty check. To quote Scott Connors (who said this on my Facebook page last night), "Another writer friend of mine told me once that getting a royalty check is a lot like winning the lottery: ( Read more... )

Fucking cold out there. Right now, the mercury's at 21F, and we're only supposed to reach 27F today, with more snow tonight. But I am in New England, and it is January. Which brings me to this, courtesy JaNell Golden, an image which greatly amuses me:


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The snow isn't going anywhere at all. Outside, it's 19F and feels like 10F. Tomorrow, the high is only forecast at 30F. There was a minuscule bit of melting yesterday, but it all goes right back to ice as soon as the sun sets. And FedEx never showed with the iPod, and supposedly it's out for delivery again today. I can imagine deliveries must be ( Read more... )

The snow is going to be with us a while, slowly morphing into a glassy rind of ice. Today has already seen its high of 30˚F and has begun sinking into the twenties, and the high tomorrow is forecast at a mere 26˚F. So, yeah. White out there for a while yet.

I'd planned to take the day off and leave the house for an expedition to photograph ( Read more... )

1) I slept eight hours, and I'm still not exactly what passes for awake.

2) We've laid in supplies. The snow is coming. It should arrive around midnight tonight. Heavy, heavy snow. If I were still in Birmingham or Atlanta, this sort of snow would spell the beginning of a week or two of havoc. Here we may be unable to leave the house for one day, ( Read more... )

This is going to be short, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I didn't get to sleep until well after five a.m. Actually, I started dozing while Spooky was reading me Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but then woke completely when I got up to brush my teeth. I think I slept four and a half hours, all told. Maybe a ( Read more... )