1. I deposited a check in my bank account today. A check that was sent to me by someone who published something I wrote. A check in the Middle Low Three Figures. As in, real money! As in, one really fancy or several quite nice dinners out! As in, three weeks of groceries! As in, […]

It’s release day for Green! Jay is holding a contest on his blog for book sightings…since I don’t have a copy of the book yet (and am probably ineligible anyway), this will have to do: I particularly like the ghost-image of the photographer in her yoga braids.

Until it was time to come home, I had a fantastic weekend. Alert readers will remember that Jay was down here for a few days last week, so we were able to fly up to Portland together Friday evening. I snuck out of work a bit early and we had a mostly eventless flight up,

I hate traveling I hate traveling I hate traveling. Boo fail grr boo. For the third time in a row, my PDX-SFO journey was Made of Fail. Got up nice and early this morning and left Nuevo Rancho Lake at 8:30. Jay and I hung around the airport a while till it was time for

Yesterday I spent some time diving into the edits of NIGHTCRAFT MOTHER…it was both better and worse than I expected. Better, in the sense that I’m already totally into the story, it’s moving in my head, I know the things I want to change, and am figuring out how to change them. Worse, in the

As I sit here at my desk with a few extra minutes this morning (because, despite going to the chiropractor yesterday and feeling o so much better, my back is still kind of tweaky, so I left yoga early), I am going over my writing to-do list, with time line. One of the items on

Just in, thanks to Lovely Editor Jen, a new review of the forthcoming Grants Pass. Again, I say, I can’t wait to read the rest of those stories!

I have a large and complex list of writerly projects, sketching out my plans for the upcoming months. This weekend, I’d wanted to work on three of them, plus a big pile of household stuff. I’ve done one, and a few of the household things, and I’m ready to collapse. Part of it must be

After my exciting ER visit of a few weeks ago, faithful readers will recollect that at my follow-up doctor visit, she recommended rechecking my blood work (specifically liver numbers, one of which was slightly elevated) at the end of the month.   So, because of DOT drug testing regulations, I had to take a quick

“In the Emperor’s Garden,” co-written with Jay Lake, sold to Fantasy Magazine. Still batting 1.000 on the collabs. And, woo hoo! 🙂