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Well, I'm back.
For reasons that still make me grimace and sigh heavily whenever I think about them (more on that later), I have wiped my Tumblr and Twitter of followers and abandoned both sites for the time being....
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Just got my copyedits for A LITTLE TASTE OF POISON...
And here I'd been thinking this would be the week I could finally get to a couple of other authors' manuscripts I'd promised to comment on! The best laid plans...I confess to opening the Word document...
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Good (Book-Related) Things
Two lovely surprises in as many days!First, a friend on Facebook pointed me to a recent article at Tor.com featuring Quicksilver as one of Five Books With Asexual Protagonists (and furthermore...
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UPROOTED and the Generation Gap in Fantasy
So this week Naomi Novik's Uprooted won the Nebula Award, and as a result a lot of people are reading it. And the reactions, as they have been pretty much ever since the book came out, are... mixed.On...
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Hits and Misses in Fiction
sartorias aka Sherwood Smith has a fascinating discussion going over on her LJ about when you only like one (or, if they're prolific, two or three) of an author's works and bounce off the rest. So far...
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News! News!
My local paper came through with a lovely interview just in time for the upcoming release of A Little Taste of Poison on Sept....
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The diagnosing of cats is a difficult matter
... I don't have a cat icon. In fact, I now realize, I have NEVER had a cat icon. This seems like a totally bizarre oversight given my lifelong love of kitties, but anyway...I've noticed over the past...
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Good News!
First, thanks to all who weighed in on my earlier post about my cat possibly having arthritis. I did call the vet to make an appointment, but the receptionist recommended that I buy a package of...
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My Year of Not Writing, and What It Taught Me
At this time last year, I was worn out. I'd just finished substantive edits on my latest book and was cautiously pleased with how it had come together, but creatively I was exhausted. I’d written nine...
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Of Mondegreens and Mottoes
As you may or may not know, I'm a big fan of singer/songwriter/producer Matt Hales, otherwise known as Aqualung. renisanz introduced me to him some years ago, and I've been eagerly buying up his...
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Yeast is yeast and west is west...
And the twain shall meet in my kitchen, apparently. Or at least they have been since last fall, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.I am making another wholegrain loaf from the recipe in James Morton's...
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The state of... well, everything
It's hard sometimes to know what to write in a post like this. Add too much detail and it sounds like oversharing (or worse, whining); not enough and it may come off as maddeningly cryptic and...
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I regret almost everything. Except the part where we own a snake.
Things I wish I had known before we bought a ball python* from our local pet shop last year:1. You don't need an expensive glass tank. In fact, that expensive glass tank with mesh top that the pet...
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Get ready, get set... BAAAAAAKE!!!
Having now binge-watched all seven seasons of The Great British Bake-Off, S2 and S3 of the Australian, 1x01 and 02 of the Irish, most of the Great Holiday / American Baking Show and half of S1 of the...
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Congratulations on your long-term planning, Steven Moffat
Having finally seen the reveal of the new 13th Doctor, I will reserve my judgment on how well this particular regeneration is going to work until I've seen Jodie Whittacker's performance and her...
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Shoulder Mountain
I've been having weird pain issues since last Christmas, starting with an aching tension in my cheeks and jaw and then nerve pain radiating around the back of my shoulder and down my arm into the...
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SHRIEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKK!!!
I don't know why it possessed me to check Catherine Fisher's website today, but I was curious to know what her next project would be and... and...I am also thinking seriously about a third Incarceron...
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A word (or a few hundred of them) in season
[Crossposted from Facebook, feel free to ignore if you've already seen it there...]Well into the second week of working on a new short story, and enjoying the writing process more than I have for a...
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Reading and Re-Reading
[Crossposted from Tumblr, because I never seem to post anything here otherwise...] Never mind all the books on your To Be Read shelf, because who knows why you’re reading them or if they’re going to be...
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I wish I could take full responsibility for this, but the truth is they get...
It's a snow day (well, technically an ice day) so all three boys are home, and the two youngest are playing Lego in their room. My 13-year-old is cheerfully singing his own set of modified lyrics to...
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Zootopia (!!!)
I never imagined I was going to even feel compelled to see this movie, let alone enjoy it. The trailers looked cute, but gave so little hint of the plot that I really didn't know what to expect, let...
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A Pocket Full of Good News!
I just found out that A Pocket Full of Murder has been shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association's 2016 Book of the Year for Children award, given to the best books for age 12 and under. Out of...
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Whoops!
Sorry for the confusion this morning; I finally managed to sign back in to LiveJournal so I could copy over a few old posts that hadn't made it in the switch to Dreamwidth, and I thought that...
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Narnia = Traumatic?
Today an unsuspecting soul on Tumblr reawakened one of my old pet peeves by reblogging a post about the supposed psychological trauma of the Pevensie children after their experiences in Narnia, a...
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Chicago Bound?
So it's looking more and more likely that our last-minute family vacation this summer will take us to Chicago. My husband has driven through the city any number of times but never actually stopped for...
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