So, I wrote three things this Yuletide, which is a first for me (it's been strictly one fic the past two years), and I've been inordinately pleased with the results.

First just the links, then a lot of nattering under the cut:

- A Pea-culiar Affair -- Hamster Princess, 3.5k, gen, Harriet and Mumfrey, set during book 1, with "The Princess and hte Pea ( Read more... )

25. Zen Cho, The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo (freebie novella) -- a story set in 1920s London and told in diary entries. This was very cute and funny, if a bit too fluffy in the resolution for me, and I didn't miss the speculative elements at all -- in fact, I feel like in the Zen Cho stories I've ready, the foibles of daily life and people being ( Read more... )

Whee! My stocking went up on fandom_stocking, which I had fun doing last year and decided to do again.

Also (as you might notice in the stocking), I finally took the plunge and got myself a (totally empty for now) AO3 account. At some point I will actually need to upload some of my doggerel there (that's basically why I got it).

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December ( Read more... )

Catching up on the last of 2012 and starting off 2013:

45. Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts -- The beginning of an epic fantasy trilogy set in Central Asia (in 12th-13th century, apparently; ( Mostly about worldbuilding -- not even spoilery )

20. Lev Grossman, The Magicians -- very interesting book. I loved the first half of it, while Quentin and company were at Brakebills. I enjoyed the rest of it, too, but in a different way. I liked the way the plot unfolded, all the echoes and connections. I enjoyed a lot of the details, bits of dialogue and prose... but past the halfway mark, i.e. ( Read more... )