Shannon

I went to lunch with a friend at Pok Pok today–my first time there, though it’s walking distance from my house, and I’ve tried to go there several times, but it’s always been too crowded, and I lost all my patience for waiting in line for restaurants when I lived in San Francisco. Restaurants certainly […]

Alas, Mark has gone back home…but I will see him again in a few days. It was an awesome weekend–this weather is marvelous! Today we walked down to the Reed College Canyon (after sleeping in most ostentatiously). But now, back to being responsible adults. Oh well, that can be fun too. 🙂

Busy, that’s all! Good stuff–Mark came down on Thursday and we went to dinner with a fun group of people; then we’ve done a jillion things around the house; then tonight another dinner out; so, lots going on and nothing much to report. He will go home tomorrow and I will get back to my

I donated the old Subaru to the Oregon Humane Society; they picked it up today. Done! I just didn’t want to deal with trying to sell a car that had so many wonky little problems. Of course I told the Humane Society everything that was wrong with it, and they were still thrilled to get

I’ve dove (diven? dived?) fully into the edits of Nightcraft Mother Queen and Tower, and it’s going very well so far–I’m already well into chapter 4. Of course this doesn’t surprise me in the least, because chapters 1-4 were written anew in my last round of edits, and they’re pretty clean and solid. Between chapters

My Brilliant Editor and I have finally settled on new titles for the books of the Nightcraft series, which is now called The Nightcraft Quartet. They are: I. Queen and Tower [formerly known as Nightcraft Mother] II. A Sword in The Sun III. The Lovers Three IV. The Empress and The Moon And yes, the

Two days ago, I read Seanan McGuire’s blog post about some idiot asking her What’s the matter with you, why aren’t your characters getting raped like they should be? It was shocking, and disturbing, and dismaying. What an idiot, I thought. Why would anyone ask such a thing? What planet do they live on? And

Post-book malaise has come and gone: I’m all better today. As I knew I would be. One of my first readers is already reading, which is awesome. And I spent the day doing Not Writing A Book things: gardening, freelance work, reading for fun. Cleaning things. I even did my Ashtanga practice, which I haven’t

Finished my reread of Hobgoblin…and hit that wall, where the whole book is stupid and pointless and doesn’t say anything, and why did I waste all that time on it again??? But I went ahead and sent it to first readers anyway, because you can’t trust this post-book voice. Mostly I just feel empty. Tomorrow

So there’s a few volunteer tomato plants in the yard, which didn’t surprise me, because last year I planted tomatoes, and sometimes the tomato fruits fall off the tomato plants and land on the ground, and they have seeds in them, and you know. But this? I… didn’t plant anything that looked like this last