I knew that I'd be missing my nephew during all this, as in fact I am, complicated a bit by the fact that my brother is now (apparently) neck deep in house hunting, and therefore has surfaced in the past couple of weeks only to send me a present (which was a basket of maple stuff from his area), in response to my sending him one lame present and ( Read more... )

The media has, of course, been full of many dire things, but one of the less dire things was various Red Cross people saying, "Hey, we need blood! Because lots of people are canceling their appointments. So, blood ( Read more... )

The equinox was yesterday. Spring, for us. Happy spring! (Or fall.)

We had been thinking of going up to Wildcat Falls in NH again, but I got a nagging feeling of wrongness, and we eventually said, "Hm" only in more words, and went with sticking around our own neck of the woods. This made sense both for ritual reasons, and for Covidian reasons ( Read more... )

a) Rachel Manija is offering to send folks any of her books (except All The Fishes Come Home To Roost, which she doesn't have in e-book format), if they want. Details here.

b) Celia Lake, a friendly acquaintance who lives a bit north of me, has been writing historical novels with magic in, in the 1920s. She's offering the first one for free, ( Read more... )

Many authors are doing many things in this Covidian year.

Maya Chhabra, Jo Walton, and Lauren Schiller, for example, are organizing a kind of massive Patreon project called The New Decameron. "Participants include Daniel Abraham, Mike Allen, Leah Bobet, Pamela Dean, Max Gladstone, Rosemary Kirstein, Naomi Kritzer, Marissa Lingen, Usman Malik, Ada ( Read more... )