Well! It’s been a day of much busy and many things to report. First of all! My ARC has arrived, of Our Lady of the Islands, and lo, it is gorgeous! I mean just look at it! It’s a real book! Hefty, too. Somehow, this makes it all seem just that much more real. And […]
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I learned this morning that I’ve been accepted into the cadre of Space Unicorns for Uncanny Magazine–launching later this week–as a Submissions Editor. The impolite term for this position, if you don’t know, is slush reader. 🙂 But I’ve read, er, open submissions before, and I know that there are jewels–JEWELS!–in the flood. (not to
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So: this is a thing, let me tell you: Sweet tomatillos! Desperance, did you know about this? You pick the pinkest ones (yes, they continue to ripen there in the bowl), and you coax them out of their paper, and you eat them, and they are SO GOOOOOOOOD, and sweet, and crunchy-juicy, and unlike anything
Do you like to have stories read to you? Sure you do. It’s a cozy and comfortable thing. Sometimes Mark reads to me, and it’s so cozy and comfortable, I often fall asleep. Wait. That’s not where I meant to go. I’m just terrible at this promo stuff. What I’m trying to tell you is
Ahh, I actually hear the sound of crickets. Because I’m sitting here, downstairs at my computer, doors and windows open to let in the cool, comfortable evening air. No one else is in the room. No one else is even downstairs. Chirp, chirp. So peaceful. Don’t get me wrong. I really enjoyed all our company
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It’s publication day for Being Small–the first book I’ve edited for Per Aspera Press! Here’s the press release. Go forth and buy this amazing book and read it! It’s gorgeous, and smart, and delightful, and it isn’t even very long, so you can totally read it, even if you’re like busy and stuff. Yay book
Despite all the busy and the too-much-social, we are trying very hard to get/stay in shape. So yesterday we rode our bikes to the gym, as we do. And when we came back out, not quite an hour later…Mark’s bicycle had been stolen. They cut through a supposedly-unbreakable lock (a $99 lock) and left it
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Apparently, the end of August is the time when All The People want to visit Portland. (And I can hardly blame them: it is very lovely here now.) We had houseguests last night (to whom we are about to serve breakfast). We have a different set of houseguests coming tonight, and then yet more next
Remember how we had this nice windowseat in the greenhouse, for lying-upon and whatnot? Well the Brandywine tomato has…grown. Mark did manage to sit on the bench today though! Yeah. Despite all that stems-and-leaves business, there are only two actual Brandywine tomatoes underway: small and green. Lots of flowers. Fortunately, the Celebrity, Chef’s Choice and
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I’m the one who needs a new computer (my MacBook Pro is coming up on 5 years old, and that’s…old), but Mark is the one who got a particularly pernicious virus today. I mean his computer did. It was actually very hateful–it got in through Skype, masquerading as an update; and came complete with a