For a bunch of reasons I don't want to say much about 2015, and also I have to make a feta-tapenade tarte soleil, so this part of the post is short. (The whole thing will be short; I am not claiming in-depth analysis in the latter part.) Actually, baking something semi-complex that may not turn out is a good symbolic end to the year, and certainly ( Read more... )

My, I have not updated here in a long while ( Read more... )

1) I almost have a cover! I need to work on balancing the color (or lack thereof; it's all sepia-ish) but I think I should be done today, and then very little is stopping me from getting the book together and uploaded. This time around I'm pretty sure I'll have a different cover for the ebooks than the paperback, because the print cover uses a ( Read more... )

1) Post up on visiting places you write about (the why and the maybe why not) at the author blog. With reference to Venice, because ( Read more... )

I'm back. You can read about my garden visits here; otherwise, here's the continuation of the previous post ( Read more... )

Big news for the day: we went to a local shelter and adopted two cats. We've been thinking about doing this since getting over the initial grieving for our old cat, and the shelter opened again today after the holiday down-time, so we went, thinking "well, we'll just look," and "maybe kittens!" and of course ended up with two adult cats, who are ( Read more... )

Random update ( Read more... )

I'm in a hotel in Pennsylvania for a few days, being distracted from getting work done by Christmas shopping and wifi (and, to my credit, going for walks in really cold weather). Yesterday, I watched "The Day of the Doctor," which was fun (I guess I will watch at least the Christmas special to see where they're going with this and how Peter Capaldi ( Read more... )

Update on the book: making progress. I've done a few more updates on the website (including mockup cover and blurb for Time and Fevers, if you want to look ahead). I wrestled the interior of the print edition into shape, having a little fun in the process (drop caps!) and need to embark on e-book and print covers for real. I'm looking at early ( Read more... )

Heh, I should know better than to post something I think is clever to Tumblr at 10 pm, even if I couldn't do otherwise because I am a stickler for meaningless accuracy. (For the record: audio post of the Ramones, "I Wanna Be Sedated," twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go, with picture of ecstasy-Finch dancing as in DW icon ("album cover" photo ( Read more... )