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The Longest Party
The Locus Awards are in town this weekend. A writer friend of mine (Rachel Swirsky) talks about how SF conventions and awards ceremonies are like this epically long party where people go home for a while but then show up across the country in these liminal, beige, anonymous rooms and the party keeps going and going. I like that quite a bit, and ( Read more... ) -
Quiet Nest
It's been awfully quiet in the house of Sparrows lately. I've been keeping my head down and working on a lighthearted Morgan le Fay/Merlin romance. I've been revising my girls and monsters and tragedy book. I've been trying to buy a house in this weird, unfriendly market. I've been eating a lot of chocolate chips with my daily coffee and watching ( Read more... ) -
Freelance gigs?
I know some of you all do freelance editing/copyediting work. Any thoughts or advice on how a person gets hooked up with this kind of thing? Thanks!
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Baby
I had another kid a couple weeks ago. Don't think I posted that here. The birth was okay. It kind of sucked. It didn't happen like I wanted it to. Parts were great. I narrowly avoided a C-Section. I didn't have any freaky medical things happen ( Read more... ) -
Why Teenage Dystopian Fiction Matters
At the mom and toddler's class ( Read more... ) -
Crows
Woke up this morning to a huge murder of crows circling our house and screaming. Me being me, I take it as auspicious. -
Nebula Nominations 2012 and my own personal happy.
The final Nebula ballot just came out and I'm so thrilled to see a lot of names on there of my writing comrades -- congrats to all! I haven't had time to read a lot of the work so far, but I'm sure my schedule is just about to start getting super easy, right? Right ( Read more... ) -
In case you were wondering...
"The Heist" (album by Macklemore and Ryan) is a damn fine album to listen to while doing really boring edits of a manuscript, since about half the songs are about how crappy and painful it is to become good at your shit. -
Nothing minus nothing.
Getting nothing done. Not the things I have to get done and not the things I want to get done and on some planet there's a chill Katie who understands that's just how it is in this moment, but on this earth I am too fierce a doer. Same as it ever was. -
In Between
On Monday I entered a manuscript into the old Amazon Breakthrough (you really think you're going to get somewhere with this?) Contest, which was a lot of work -- revamping something older and making it more thriller-esque. This is my year of throwing stuff at walls and seeing what sticks, which is also every other year ( Read more... )