Shannon

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! 🙂

And too darn tired–the upstairs neighbors have taken to holding furniture-moving-and-pogo-stick parties late at night. Or something. Last night’s ended about 1am. Honestly, I don’t know *what* they’re doing up there…who runs back and forth across the length of their apartment so many times in the middle of the night, and why? No, don’t answer

Got through all Zombie edits (save the Head Zombie–hey, dude, where are you???), making notes in one master copy of the manuscript. Next step: read through manuscript, noting scene by scene what should be changed, deleted, made scarier, whatever. (1 week?) After that: make those changes. (rest of my life? No–3 weeks?) Then: book is

I’m working on Nightcraft Mother again, getting it ready for query. This is the novel that was the second half of my first real serious novel which was 250,000 words and therefore *way* too long and I cut it in two and I made up a whole new ending for Nightcraft Sister which was the

Home from BayCon, which was the usual con-blend of super fun and super exhausting. Thanks to Apocalypse Girl for being such an excellent Toastmistress, along with a very special extra thanks for the non-literary advice! That worked perfectly. Today Jay and I have a full day of writing and writing-related program activities planned–I’ll do my

Here at BayCon and about to go down to breakfast/etc. So this will be brief–more later, I hope. I finished the story “Home” (3700 words) and first readers report that it is, in fact, not completely insane. Or, if it is, it’s insane in the right way and not the wrong way. I’ll be making

1. I woke up at 2:30 a.m. and couldn’t go back to sleep. So I’m not responsible for anything else you read below. 2. Including this. My current WIP is just over 2,000 words (of a projected 4,000, and due on June 1) and is either the best thing I’ve ever written or a complete

Got the news in class this morning that our beloved Guruji, the founder of Ashtanga yoga, is at rest. Story here. I practice Ashtanga nearly every day and have done so for over ten years, but I only had the opportunity to practice with Guruji once, when he came to San Francisco on one of

Wow, am I tired. It isn’t even dark outside, and I want to go to bed. As Jay points out (and you should go over here and read all about it in detail), it’s a sort of crazy new reality when (probable) liver tumors is *good* news, but hey, that’s the world we’re living in.