Not dead! Had a wonderful time at Bubonicon—saving full report for when I get back from Worldcon this weekend, and can knock it all out at once. I returned to 34 frogs in the pond. This is more frogs, by leaps and hops, than I have ever seen in the pond. I am stunned. I […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Okay, one more short snippet, just because I really had fun with this bit, and because it illustrates a couple of points about writing. First off, you may note that Sarah’s name has changed. I was not entirely happy with “Sarah.” It wasn’t quite right, and I stumbled over it a little whenever I typed […]
Yesterday the water pressure started acting funky. Today it died. Fortunately our old friend Moses the Plumber managed to come out and check on it. Nearly five hours have passed. There is still no running water, and he and two assistants are fighting with the well. The water heater apparently died in spectacular fashion, having […]
Okay, okay, one more because I love you and because this isn’t a real story yet and I don’t have to crouch protectively over it and wave my hands to keep the internet off until it’s done. (Fairly soon I will hit that stage, but the publishers generally don’t care about the first few chapters […]
Once upon a time there was a girl named Sarah, whose mother loved her very very very much. Her mother loved her so much that she was not allowed to play outside where someone might grab her, nor go away on sleepovers where there might be an accident or suspicious food. She was not allowed […]
She really hadn’t known. No one believed her, of course. The more sympathetic among her friends said “Oh, poor Althea, you must have been terrified, of course you couldn’t tell anyone.” Her detractors—her sisters foremost among them—all said “Of course she knew. She just didn’t care. Those poor women.” No one had actually suggested that […]
So I just got off the phone from a conference call with my agent and somebody else’s agent (you know their stuff) and we discussed the possibility of various options for Dragonbreath, none of which I am going to talk about now, and would ask that y’all refrain from speculation, since I can’t say anything, […]
It’s an old schtick, but a good one. If anything good comes out of our upcoming photo shoot, I’ll use that—otherwise this is my Official Self-Portrait from now on…
Apparently I need to submit a hi-rez author photo to the Hugo committee for the ceremony, where I guess they flash all our photos on a wall or something. This is kind of a problem. There’s a reason I use the painting my mother did of me as my author bio. I look like a […]
Woohoo! Got back from the doctor yesterday, and for the first time in my life, my cholesterol has gone DOWN. Also, my triglycerides, which were somewhat elevated last year, plunged down into normal ranges. My ratios of good and bad cholesterol are suddenly really really good for a Caucasian human female in her mid-thirties. Rather […]