Well that didn’t last long: got a new freelance job this morning. 🙂 It looks very cool, though. I’m not complaining. Meanwhile, however, I did manage to spend several hours working on Queen & Tower this afternoon. Even past when my writing-friend was done with his work. So, yay! I am still mired around 10,000 […]

Okay so perhaps trying to blog at the very end of the day is not a thing that is happening. Or maybe it’s the busy. I turned in a freelance job today, the last one I had in-house. (I mean the get-paid-upon-completion kind of freelance; not my editorial work. I have plenty of that!) The

Oh, negligent blogger is negligent. It was like I told you: dinner guests and house guests and a giant pile of freelance work and a novel to rewrite…and laundry and chores and going to the gym and, you know, life. But I like blogging, I do–I think it’s grounding, perspective-izing. It’s good to stop a

We are home from the Grand Mini-Reading-Tour of the Northern Parts of the California, hoorah! And a fine reading tour it was. SO MANY PEOPLE came out to see me! Including a dear friend from elementary school days who I hadn’t seen in FOREVER. (If you follow me on Facebook, and you happened to log

One more day at home (tomorrow), and then we hit the road again–for my mini-book-tour through Northern California. First stop: Ukiah, California, and the Mendocino Book Company. I’ll be reading and signing there Thursday, January 15, 6:00 p.m. From there, it’s off to Mendocino, and the Gallery Bookshop. My reading/signing is Friday, January 16, at

Busy times around here–as usual! Workity work. I’m making slow but steady progress on Queen & Tower, as well as doing All The Proofreading. But that didn’t prevent us from taking a few hours off last night to attend a fancy party–a launch party for our fellow book-grouper Daniel‘s new app, Mayday! Deep Space. It

Nomination season is upon us! May I suggest you take a look at Our Lady of the Islands, collaboratively written with the late Jay Lake? It is a second-world fantasy novel featuring two middle-aged women protagonists. Though it’s set in an unexplored corner of Jay’s Green universe, you don’t need to be familiar with any

What a year it was! Mark and I feel like we completed the Seven Impossible Tasks, and now we’re sort of looking around, wondering what “normal life” looks like. Hahahhaa. The year began with us in the middle of our three-month stint as replacement innkeepers at a lovely bed and breakfast on Orcas Island, and

I’m going to do my New Year’s Day book tally a little differently this year. Last year, I read 110 books total; this year it came to 98. It’s my first year since I’ve been keeping track that the number went down. I’m not surprised; in fact, I was surprised it hadn’t come down further.

So many days since I last blogged! It’s no longer a daily habit with me, though I do come to LJ every day and read my friends list. More than once a day. I’ve kind of given up on the Twitters again too. It’s just…not my natural form, short-and-witty. It’s impossible to keep up with,