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greygirlbeast

"When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone..."

Mar 23, 2017 11:32

A few minutes after I got up this morning, I posted the following to Facebook: Welcome to spring in New England. Currently, it's 18˚F out there, with the windchill at -5. Mom, you may have a house guest very soon, South Trumpland or no South Trumpland. Since then, the temperature has risen to a balmy 29˚F, with the windchill at 20˚F, humidity at 21 ( Read more... )

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ext_3887391 March 23 2017, 15:59:58 UTC

Every now and then, after listening to writer friends above the Mason-Dixon Arctic Circle whine about how terrible winter is where they are, I get a notion to buy a big ol' house down here in the sub-tropics and establish the Snow Hater Retreat for Impecunious Northern Editors and Scriveners, so they'll have something to write about other then inclement weather while spending a couple of months in a less unpleasant clime. :) Yes, there are far too many trumpanzees hereabouts, but they shall be granted no admission to SHRINES. Someday, someday.

greygirlbeast March 23 2017, 16:02:25 UTC

For the record, I'm not to be counted among "Northern Editors and Scriveners." I am, in fact, a Southern writer stranded in the North.

ext_3887391 March 23 2017, 16:09:44 UTC

I know, but I couldn't fit that into the acronym. :D And there are others. I once jokingly offered to let Karen Koehler rent out one of the spare bedrooms last winter, during a brief period after all my chicks had flown the nest. Alas, she waited too long to accept, and my middle daughter came back, as all bad pennies do, and filled all the available space with her stuff, as prodigals are wont to do.

Hang in there; winter will give up the ghost soon.

greygirlbeast March 23 2017, 16:10:53 UTC

We might see warm weather by late May. I kid you not. That's normal.

mannequinskin March 24 2017, 00:30:03 UTC

I would have to argue that every one of your novels (and, indeed, the novellas) have been quite fine. I hold a special place in my heart for Low Red Moon because it was my introduction to your writing, and I loved it so much that it prompted me to seek out the rest of your work. You're one of a handful of authors whose novels I have to reread every few years because they mean so much to me. Some authors' works are so easily forgotten after only a few months, but your stuff always sticks with me (and haunts my dreams, sometimes, but in a good way).

I suppose the point I'm trying to make here is that I'm endlessly thankful that you're still writing because I treasure every bit of it. It baffles me that you haven't had more financial success; I feel like most people don't know what they're missing.

ladyblue56 March 24 2017, 06:44:47 UTC

I've pre-ordered "Dear Sweet Filthy World." Due to major health and dental issues (mini-stroke last July and now major dental woes) I can't be a patreon w. a monthly donation but I can save up my book money and spend on your work. Greatly enjoyed "Agents of Dreamland ( ... )