While explaining segregation to Sierra and Tony, and how some places had white water fountains and black water fountains, our six year old Hayley exclaimed that she only knew grey water fountains, the metal ones at school.

... what with getting married and all. Hard to believe it was only a week ago.


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Awaking to the loud crunching sound of some small escaped domestic rodent nibbling away at dining detritus AT FOUR THIRTY IN THE MORNING is generally speaking an unpleasant way to begin a day. I shall comfort myself in contemplation of their renewed incarceration.

Well, not just in:

Kristie's officially 10 weeks pregnant! So I'll be an official dad (in addition to my rights and duties as a stepdad) in March. We'll find out the gender in another 10 weeks, just after the wedding.

Speaking of which, I really need to order my outfit...

I've allowed my LJ paid account to expire. Why? I'm not really sure. Mainly because I use it significantly less than I use to. But then, almost everyone I know uses their LJ significantly less than we use to. Twitter and Facebook have become the champions of the interwebs ( Read more... )

Sales for PRINCESS SMITH have blown me away. Counting the pre-orders, we've sold SEVENTY PERCENT of our initial print run! I am indescribably overjoyed by this.

It is a gorgeous book, if I do say so myself. The cover turned out beautifully, and the page layouts are every bit as awesome.

Yay!

You may think that I'm really behind on Truthseekers, considering that a month and a half ago I was at 25,000 words and that's only a 15,000 word increase in six weeks. Well my friends, let me assure you that I haven't simply been sitting on my hands. Oh no! In addition to oodles of overtime at the day job, a website update that was months overdue ( Read more... )

Flew past 40,000 words of Truthseekers 3 this morning on the train. Nice to have that milestone at my back.

Updated http://www.talyesin.com to add on a Truthseekers page complete with reviews, and to add Out of the Broom Closet to my list of publications.

Check it out!

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