It seems that there is no end to busyness, but I thought I should update this journal as things do happen. Maybe in a year or so I'll be able to keep a more regular journal.

First off: 59 Beads has been reprinted in ISF #1 and is now free to download. There are some interesting reviews of the issue available through the site. I'm happy to see this ( Read more... )

How time flies. It's been more than a month since I last updated this journal. I've been very busy and twitter has been much easier to use as a means of keeping up. I will be posting new fiction on here soon though. In petto are the Wasden Effect and another short piece--both of these are my way of thanking my sponsors for the CW writeathon.

I've ( Read more... )

It's been five years since I last went home to The Philippines. My last visit home was when I was still pregnant with Samuel. It feels kind of weird to think of going home after all this time. Five years is the longest time that I've been away and I keep thinking of how my memories of the country left behind is kind of like a still life whereas ( Read more... )

Samuel's been down with a virus for a couple of days. So life over here has been mainly sitting on the couch with a sick toddler who just wants to be cuddled. He's a bit better now, although he's not yet back to his old cheerful, active, talky-talk self.

January 31 is the deadline for early applications to the Clarion workshop in San Diego. I'm ( Read more... )

My recent life often involves wrestling with an active and adventurous toddler whose latest thing seems to be climbing up onto the table in order to get to the pc screen. The thing is, if I'm watching and say "no", he aborts, but the minute he sees my back is turned, the screen becomes the object of "the toddler's hunt".

In the submission ( Read more... )

I sent off Rituals of Grief as a plain text file to Reflection's Edge.  This is my second sale to RE, and I'm looking forward to when it will come out on the zine.

Well, from going backwards, then forwards, now back in time.  I have to set the clock a bit forwards so this post doesn't vanish somewhere under the previous posting.

Hubby downloaded the ( Read more... )

In between my last posting and today's posting:

-- our computer crashed
-- I celebrated my birthday
-- Samuel was dedicated 
-- the OWW crit marathon ended
-- my parents managed to get a later flight home (yayness :)
-- Joel had his first spring break
-- my cousin came over to visit us
-- we had some unusual summerry weather for a Dutch springtime
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