So yesterday I had to haul Ben in to the vet. I knelt next to the bed and peered under it. A grumpy Ben peered back. "C’mon out, big guy," I said. Ben stared at me. What was I, nuts? There were ninjas out there! And that awful little black cat that was worse than a ninja! Don’t be fooled. The pudge […]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Also, new art! Another quickie. Hadrosaur Mittens Some day I will have time for big epic paintings again, but until then, I amuse myself with little dinosaurs.
Yay! If you head on over to www.ursulavernon.com you will see a slew of new updates, including information on ordering the game "Black Sheep" preordering the audiobook of Nurk and–most and absolutely exciting of all–drum-roll please– Pre-orders for Dragonbreath! (Yes, if I could make that six foot tall blinking block letters, I might.) (I’m amazed too, at how […]
Some of you may have noticed the new icon gracing t’old blog today. It’s courtesy of Jennie Breeden who does the webcomic The Devil’s Panties, which I have been appearing in for the last couple of weeks. (I know, I love the platypus well, but I really liked how she drew me in this one.) If you […]
I am doing a terrible thing. Well, it’s not really terrible, but it FEELS terrible. It is something that I have fought against doing involuntarily for years on end. I have invested time and money and brainpower into not doing it. I have studied and read up and compared notes with others on how not to do it. […]
Today I shall get up! I shall be productive! I shall run off prints! A lot of prints! A slew of prints! I shall print until– Crap, I’m out of paper. The best-laid plans of mice and men…oh, well. Guess I’ll be off on paper-quest first instead. In other news, Ben does not appear to be sick so much as Sulking. […]
My life with Kevin is one fraught with dichotomies. He’s a good person. And by "good" I don’t mean "nice" (as in XKCD "nice") but genuinely good in that he volunteers and rescues cats and works with the boy scouts and generally makes the world a better place. Plus he cooks and does the laundry. He also […]
Dangit, I think something’s wrong with Ben again. He’s still eating his gooshy food, he’s not dehydrated, he’s using the litterbox as near as one can determine, and his nose is the right temperature, so he’s obviously not doing TOO badly. There are no injuries that anyone can find, and the patch that he had licked raw […]
Had an odd dream last night, the only part of which I remember clearly was standing in a forest of very tall trees–a Pacific Northwest style forest, very open, rather than one of the more tangly East Coast ones. There were steel cables hanging down from the trees, and I saw a bird tangled up in […]
My editor finally asked when they’d get the first draft of Dragonbreath 2, so I’ve been writing furiously on it all day. I think I agreed to much too short a deadline. (First draft by mid-January! Me, delusional? Naaaah…) On the other hand, I did finally get to the point where I get to use the best line […]