I was having a conversation with a friend a few days ago on Facebook about Named cat names, and I thought I'd share how I answered her. She asked how I developed names for the clan cats, and here's my reply ( Read more... )

Get a load of this geee-OR-gee-ous cover! Click on the image below:


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My agent, Richard Curtis, has just confirmed today that everything is on-track.

Courage will be released on 4/1/08 as an E-Reads/Baen Books selection.

Baen's website is www. baen. com. (Note - you can buy individual titles as well as the subscription.) E-Reads is www. ereads. com.

After all this time and grief, it really is happening.

Yarrrooo!

"Get ( Read more... )

Before our little heroine in Ratha and Thistle-chaser meets Splayfoot the seamare, Newt/Thistle encounters another sea-beast that puzzles her. This one actually helps Newt, although she doesn't realize it at first, and probably wouldn't admit it later. By stealing this animal's leavings of clams and other shellfish, Newt learns to eat seafood. ( Read more... )

My hubby, Chuck, and I installed a new spring-box yesterday.  We live in a remote area west of Patterson, CA, and we get our water from a spring on our land.  We have a mountain just in back of the place and the spring is way-the-hell-and-gone up the mountain.  Water from the spring flows into a collection box, then into a sedimentation box (where ( Read more... )