The past month was ... interesting.  First I brought home the new kitten, Starbuck.  He's a honey, but used to having playmates.  Now he's driving my older cats crazy with his attempts to play with them.  Mostly, they hide.  If I'm trying to concnetrate on anything, he's all over it, including a pile of broken glass from a print I knocked over.  (" ( Read more... )

I'll try again to post a photo of my new ragdoll kitten:


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Yesterday I drove half the way across the state to visit a ragdoll cattery.  Nearly a year ago, sight unseen, I reserved a kitten who hadn't even been born yet.  Now he's here and will be ready in about two weeks to take home.  This is my fifth or sixth ragdoll.  Love the breed but worry how my elderly 17 year old sisters Theodora and Dorathea will ( Read more... )

Something weird happened yesterday.  I was re-reading and revising the novel so far (working title:  Winter's End) off the icloud version when I discovered that Chapter III had been text clipped out of existence.  All that was left was its title.  I'd never heard of text clipping before nor had I asked for it nor did there seem to be any way to ( Read more... )

A chat on Messenger got me thinking about how my family ended up in Wisconsin and built this house in 1891:

My grandmother with whom I lived as a child told me that we are the descendants of 19th century New York state Millerites. Convinced that Jesus was about to return, they sold their farm, put on white nightgowns, and sat on the chicken coup ( Read more... )

A question for my Mac readers.  What's the difference between cloud drive and icloud drive?  I want to use one for the primary manuscript and the other for automatic back-up, but maybe it doesn't work that way.  And how does my mac hard drive figure in this?  I'm terrified of losing what I write since upgrading OS screwed up all of my files..

I'm finally working on Novel 11 again, and find a potentially disastrous gap in my memory.  It's important to the plot that the Coman and the Edirr are backed by different major houses in the Riverland, but my notes don't make clear which by which.  Although both are small houses, neither the Edirr nor the Coman is very interested in national ( Read more... )

I just received the following offer from Audiobooks, and am passing it on in case anyone wants to take advantage of it.


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CJ just pointed out to me that I haven’t posted on LJ for a year.  Yike ( Read more... )

I gather that today Deathless Gods came out.  A couple of days ago I did an online interview on it which you can find at https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-deathless-gods-author-p-c-hodgell/and Baen is doing a podcast due out later which may or may not be all right:  I often don't do well in live interviews ( Read more... )