Through no fault of her own, my dear friend bnharrison, author of the as-yet-unsold but thoroughly brilliant YA novel FIND ME HERE (which some may remember me raving about on Twitter) has just found herself without a place to live for the time being.

With her characteristic wry humour, bnharrison is trying to make the best of the situation, remarking that it's one ( Read more... )

What exactly does that mean, anyway? The "returns" thing? Never quite got that. But in any case, I would like to wish a large sparkly "Happy Birthday" to three of my favorite people:

shoebox2, whose snarky wit is paired with generous good nature, and who also possesses a remarkably shrewd critical eye;

lizbee, a dear and loyal friend and savvy bookseller/ ( Read more... )

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Chag sameach to all my Jewish friends!

I've been thinking lately of how nice it is to have so many loyal readers (some of whom have been here since this journal started in 2003!) who have not only stuck with me as I hopped from fandom to fandom, but even bore with me patiently as I turned into one of those Crazy Author Types who hardly ever talks about anything but writing (and worse, ( Read more... )

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In reference to the "Senior Picture Meme" that's been going around -- would you believe I don't have a senior picture? But it's the truth. I have pictures of myself at that age, but no school pictures, and definitely no graduation picture ( Read more... )

I am home from the UK now but absolutely delirious off my rocker, despite having gone to bed at 9:30 p.m. (EST) last night and slept until 6:30 (EST) this morning. My body still seems to think that I was up until 2:30 a.m. last night and slept in until 11:30, and it DOES NOT WANT ( Read more... )

Which being translated from the original Owl is, fond Happy Birthday wishes to the fabulous lydaclunas!


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Got two fantastic packages in the mail today, just in time for Christmas.

First, a lovely calendar from avarill full of wild animal photographs, which my kids were very impressed by -- all the more so when I told them "Aunt Sylvia" took the photos herself!

Second, a ginormous box from cesario, which was full of FANTABULOUS BOOTY including at least three kinds ( Read more... )