Shannon

Here’s the official release from Morrigan Books, copied shamelessly from their site: Morrigan Books to publish Shannon Page’s Eel River by Mark Deniz Morrigan Books is pleased to announce the addition of Shannon Page’s novel, Eel River, to our eBook line in 2013. Shannon has worked with Morrigan Books with stories in both Grants Pass […]

It gives me an enormous amount of pleasure to announce that Morrigan Books is going to publish my novel Eel River! I am just cross-eyed with excitement to be telling you this…I was trying to write this post up all cool and sophisticated and all that but actually all I want to write is HEY

I was out today with H. doing a thing, and when the thing was done, we happened to be driving past a thrift store neither of us had checked out before, so she suggested we go in, and so we did. And we emerged an hour later with Much Treasure. I got: Two cashmere sweaters;

Hey, FogCon is this weekend! And I’m going! It’s my old hometown con, except it didn’t get started till after I moved away, and now it’s moved to Walnut Creek. But still! Tons of awesome people will be there, and I’m so looking forward to it. And I have programming. And here it is: Friday,

So I took a weekend, sort of; I mean, I still worked (freelance, and editing Nightcraft Mother, plus a few nice hours in the yard), but I didn’t go out into the world and interact with people. Well, other than yoga class, and that hardly counts. 🙂 So I feel rather more human now. Which

It was a lovely celebration of life for Mark Bourne yesterday, and truly nice to spend time with so many good people. Including a rather long time just sitting comfortably and chatting with the most recent ex and his kid. Which, you know, that sort of thing has NOT been happening, and I’m quite glad

So yesterday snow; today sun and loveliness. Must be spring! I had a schedule malfunction (not my fault) and ended up without time to go to the gym–or, rather, without time to go before everyone got off work and crowded the pool all up. So I drove back home after my errands, gym bag unused,

It was a very good day; started with that lovely snow on the ground, and then proceeded nicely to a short story sale, both of which you’ve already heard about; then other good things happened, here and there, which I will tell you about some day. And then boring things happened too, which were also

It gives me great pleasure to announce the sale of the short story “Water Proof,” collaboratively written with Chaz Brenchley aka desperance, to Buzzymag.com. It will appear later this year. Woohoo!

Well, looks like some of it did stick overnight: (that’s the view from my bedroom window, looking down to the deck and back yard below…you can just **barely** see my new stone path under the snow…) Happy spring!