Shannon

Wow, being tourists is exhausting! Fun, but whew. Tuesday, as noted, we did the Portland underground tour, then had a lovely late lunch and then spent some time at Powells, then went back home and crashed a while, eating leftovers instead of going out for yet another huge meal. Wednesday, we drove to Seattle, where […]

The parents got here as planned yesterday, and everyone marveled at the fabulous hot weather. Indeed a bit too hot (though I’m not complaining!). We had dinner on the deck outside, on my new table–yay! Grasses and pollens are in the air, and though I don’t generally have a problem with that, I got something

Mark has arrived (and napped); my parents are on their way, looking at a tomorrow-afternoon arrival. All is well! I had a good open house today. The weather is hot and gorgeous. Nothing more to report! 🙂

I wrote another 1,500 words in the new first chapters of Nightcraft Mother this evening, and have gotten Callie well down the road of the thing she needs to do to drive the rest of the story…ooh it’s hard writing, though. I really want to get this right, and have it make emotional sense even

I finally figured out the correct metaphor for Washington drivers (the freeway ones particularly): they’re cats. The ones who get right up behind you in the lane going all I HAVE TO GET BY YOU I HAVE TO GO FASTER GO GO GO NOW MOVE OVER NOW NOW and then you do move over and

Seattle is lovely, the weather is perfect, the drive was marvelous, the reading was spectacular… the only thing missing is Mark. 🙁 It’s especially poignant to be in his apartment without him here. But! He will be home soon, he is in northern California as we speak, and will be in Portland on Sunday or

I forgot to note where I started today, but I’m up to 13,000 words added in the first chapters of Nightcraft Mother–maybe I wrote 2,000 today? I’m into the last major thing that has to happen before I can move into the already-written chapters–well, I’m into the setup of it, the thing itself is still

I’ll be reading in Seattle tomorrow night, at “A Celebration of Anthologies” at the University Bookstore, at 7:00, along with the magnificent authors John Pitts, Brenda Cooper, Dylan Birtolo, Erik Scott de Bie, and, if we’re lucky, Jennifer Brozek! I’ll be reading from “A People Who Always Know,” from DAW’s The Modern Fae’s Guide to

I don’t know how many hours I spent in the yard today–I kept finishing what I was doing and coming inside, only to go back out again for more…I planted the rose from yesterday, and planted a few more things from the nursery (oh yes and went to the nursery), and pulled a bunch of

So, yes, whirlwind weekend, but it was worth it. Even the getting up early. Mostly. 🙂 I flew down Friday morning crazy-early, caught a cab to Gretchen’s, where Krissy S. was visiting. The three of us decided we needed coffee–them because they were just getting going for the day, me because I’d been up for