It started late, much later than predicted. Nothing by 1:30 am when I went to bed. Not much but a wee bit of snowfall and lots of slush when I went out to do my errands around 12:30 today. But enroute home, finally the snow began to fall in earnest and I can now say yes, we have a lovely snowy blizzard blanketing NYC with the white stuff ( Read more... )

I know I've been awfully quiet, except for the reading announcement yesterday but I'm finishing up Best Horror #2 and have a lot to still read and then reread. I've chosen five six stories so far and have 41 stories on my short list to consider. And I'm still in the middle of several original anthologies plus have to check out the original stories ( Read more... )

We arrived at his room on the 3rd floor and he wasn't there--which was pretty scary, until we found out that he's been moved down to orthopedics, which means he's no longer being monitored specially for his heart.

He was sleeping when we arrived on the second floor and was told he hadn't eaten breakfast. He slept a lot today but I think that's a ( Read more... )

I had a marvelous time visiting out west. While I was in Stallion Springs, Richard (Mikey's husband and a marvelous sculptor) some of the work by Richard that I own and I drove to Red Rock in the high desert one day while Mikey was working. I've taken photos, which I will eventually post--there a LOT to go through ( Read more... )

I've been juggling work on three original anthologies plus YBFH over the past week: line editing stories for The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People (we're awaiting three more plus a poem, I think). Reading the stories that Nick Mamatas passed on to me from his Haunted Legends slush pile, and working on the ones we've decided to buy ( Read more... )