Everything is a bit mad here at the moment. MrD may be starting his lovely new school next week...or the week after...or possibly the week after that? We're still waiting to find out (and be able to arrange childcare accordingly ( Read more... )

OK, I am still totallytotallytotally on blog hiatus (don't laugh!), especially since I have a freelance deadline next Thursday and only two childcare sessions between then and now...

...but I just had to share: as part of Amazon.co.uk's big Kindle Marathon Sale, A Most Improper Magick (Kat Book 1) is on sale for just 99p! I have no idea how long ( Read more... )

So, yes, this has been a hard week, and last night was particularly hard, since we spent 11:30 - 2 a.m. in our local hospital's A&E (a.k.a., the ER). Thank goodness, MrD is much, much better now (it was a frightening but temporary problem, fully solved by medicine, thank goodness), but we're all pretty tired now...but I could not possibly wait to ( Read more... )

Well. So. Remember how I was complaining earlier this week about feeling in limbo, in many ways? Well, I'm still waiting on all the expected types of news that I was waiting for before...

...but something completely unexpected arrived in my inbox instead, and it was amazing.

Kat - under the UK title A Most Improper Magick - just won the Waverton ( Read more... )

It's been hard to find time to blog in the last few days for the best of all possible reasons: because I've spent almost all of my non-child-caring energy on novel-writing with the kind of joyous abandon and obsession that I always yearn for but don't always experience. I've fallen (even more) behind on emails, and I haven't posted here as ( Read more... )

First off, three points of business ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a bit of a wash-out because of the ME/CFS, which took its toll for my fun weekend of booksigning & intense socializing...but it would be really hard to find any better way to wake up than I did this morning. I got up, played with MrD, looked online - and discovered that I'm on the 2011 British Fantasy Awards longlist twice, once for A ( Read more... )

Aiyee, this has been a week I wouldn’t want to repeat. MrD spent three days suffering through a very nasty stomach bug, then transitioned seamlessly into a bad feverish cold. Today is Day 5 of toddler illness, and the fifth day of life pretty much coming to a halt in a way I could never have imagined before I had a baby. Everything I’d planned to ( Read more... )

Whew! We just had a conversation with our landlord and confirmed that we can stay in our current house for the foreseeable future. Hooray for being settled in one place! And now it really is time for us to finally learn Welsh, if only to keep up with MrD ( Read more... )

Right now Patrick is sitting next to me, wearing headphones and watching an episode from a fantasy TV show (which I will not name, for reasons of kindness). He's having a very good time and laughing a lot - but possibly not for any reasons that the show-runners would approve, since he also keeps saying things like, "God, this is terrible! These are ( Read more... )