In advance of NaNoFiMo I dug out that long ago novel from 2006’s Nanowrimo, about Slate the ninja accountant and the paladin with the dead demon in his head, and started re-reading it, editing as I went. Huh. Reading something six years old is odd. Most of it is…serviceable. Which is an ugly-sounding word, but […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
So Penguin and Random House are merging, as some of you may have heard on the various news fronts. Now, I’m a Penguin author. The Dragonbreath books, as well as Bread Wizard and Hamster Princess, are all through Dial, which is an imprint of Penguin. I love my editor, I love my art director, I […]
SCENE: A hallway, with two very large rabbit paintings hung in it. Our heroine has just opened the bedroom door to find KEVIN’s teenage son standing in the hall, looking perturbed. There is a distant baying of beagles under the bed. KEVIN’S OLDEST: … ME: Can we help you? KEVIN’S OLDEST: What were those…noises? ME: […]
Scalzi wrote a brilliant post about Republicans talking about rape yesterday. It’s scary hard stuff and you shouldn’t read it if you don’t want to, but it’s very good. I tell you true, though, the things that make me most furious in the comments (and there are many, many things to get furious about, you […]
As I promised myself, a list of works in progress with associated word counts, so that I have something to refer to. This is mostly for my own reference at the moment, so I don’t forget some of the things that are there, and sure, I COULD do it in Evernote or something, but where’s […]
So today I went to the North Carolina State Fair! My buddy Otter, her husband, and Kevin and I all tromped out to eat Fried Thing On A Stick and risk E. coli in the livestock barns. Unfortunately they’ve apparently had way too much E.coli around, because there was very little livestock comparatively—half a barn, […]
Well, another November is cruising toward us, and that means it’s time for–you guessed it!–another episode of National Novel Writing Month, except that in my case it’s National Novel Finishing Month and actually what I aim to finish this year is a novella, so I guess that means it’s…look, let’s just go with it. I […]
I’m just gonna throw this out—red foxes are freaky. You can scour the internet and find many many images of them being adorable, but the one time I met one in the wild and we stared at each other for a few minutes, it was not cute, it was not cuddly, and only a […]
There needs to be a word for that mix of frustration and vindication when you’ve spent twenty minutes trying to get the art lined up on the scanner bed so that the sides are straight and you can get the little selection box juuuuuust right so that you don’t get the bit of black that […]
This is your official warning, internet. I woke up this morning singing “White Christmas” and lit up a gingerbread-scented candle. Be afraid. And have a picture of my cat. (Okay, he’s really Kevin’s cat now. I know when I’m beat.) That’s Ben in the background, but in his defense, he is laying at one of […]
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