It has been a bad winter for pets. Angus the little orange cat passed away yesterday. He’d been dropping weight faster than I liked, which we thought was a dental problem, but a week ago he started stumbling. It rapidly became clear that he had terrible vertigo, he began falling even with sitting, and his […]
Monthly Archives: February 2015
So there’s a Kickstarter for a nifty little book put together by the group of artists going to Botswana, being organized by the awesome Foxfeather, and you can see it all here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1729864809/expanding-horizons-artists-journey-to-africa We’ve just added a couple of tiers, including the chance to be a saint on the Hidden Almanac and two Tuckerization slots […]
…my short story “Jackalope Wives” got nominated for a Nebula Award. It has been a pretty wild week.
So now that we have agreed and accepted the offer, I can tell you guys all about it–Seventh Bride got picked up by 47North, Amazon’s spec-fic imprint, and they’ll be publishing an expanded version, mostly likely this November! Basically, what happened was that Bride was doing really well–4K copies–and one of the editors there was […]
I should really try to remember that I am capable of breaking myself. I am, sad to say, a creature of intense routine. I don’t mind traveling and doing Other Stuff, but then I want to come home and have everything be exactly like it should be and do normal things that don’t change for […]
So we’ve been trying to find a new dog for the last week or two, since Gir needs a friend. It’s…not gone well. Our first try was a lovely dog who came home and promptly went for a cat, full lunge and snarl. Back to the foster family he went. Our second try is a […]
Went to Foolscap in Redmond, which was an awesome little con, delighted to meet fans and friends and new friends and hopefully new fans. It was great! They’re doing a lot of good stuff and I hope they keep on doing it. (Preferred pronoun ribbons. Simple, straightforward, everybody had them. Awesome.) And then I went […]