Happy New Year! Happy Monday! (for post-holiday iterations of “happy” and “Monday.”) For the writers: The submissions window for THE DEATH OF ALL THINGS has closed. We got over 400 (yes, FOUR HUNDRED) submissions, not including the anchor authors (who have until mid-month-ish to get their stories in), so we’re going to be busy little […]
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One of my, mmm, not a resolution so much as a behavior modification, was to get more use out of my Netflix account, now that the membership cost finally went up. Comfort rewatches are all well and good, but I have DVDs for that. So every month, I decided, I need to watch at least
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Any year in which I can say that my father dying – not unexpectedly, but of sudden and unexpected causes – wasn’t the most emotionally gut-wrenching thing to happen is, to put it mildly, a year I have no interest in revisiting. That’s not to say it didn’t have good moments. I’ve written a lot.Â
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Yesterday, and old friend and his family from the east coast was in town, and another former-east-coast friend and I met up them for coffee and donuts (since it is still Channukah, and fried foods are Traditional). And that probably would have been it, except another local friend and her daughter came down with minor
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Some of you following along on FB/Twitter/Patreon already know that Cat of Size had a hypoglycemic event yesterday morning (around 3:30 am, because of course he did), and ended up getting an emergency check on his numbers. I just got off the phone with the vet. CoS’s numbers came back, and they’re awesomely good. I
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Slightly under the weather today (note to self: scallops are tasty but your system really, really doesn’t like ’em), but managed to update the Sightings and Signings page for 2017 with all the most recent, updated, and relevant information! (also: links where you will be able to order signed copies of THE COLD EYE and
The month before a new book comes out is when the author starts to contemplate hiding under her bed until it’s too late to do anything. Therapists suggest gentle, non-spoilery promotion as a way to deal with these feelings of whydidntIbecomeadentistlikeasaneperson.
The Shameless Reminders of NEW BOOK COMING! begins… Read More »
And no, it never, ever gets old, hearing nice things said about your work. :-) [THE COLD EYE is] tale of a young traveler trying to figure out the mystery behind the suspicious deaths and magical undercurrents happening in the Territory…. When [Isobel] discovers that the force of the magic is even stronger than her
RT gives THE COLD EYE 4 stars! Read More »
Ahem. So. Remember a while back I talked about putting together a story collection? And then Life (and Death) happened, and things got postponed? It’s been un-postponed. And is out today (with a gorgeous cover by Elizabeth Leggett!) And priced to be an impulse buy for yourself/stocking-stuffer gift for all your friends! DARKLY HUMAN: currently
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So if that’s where you’ll be, this is where I’ll be! Fri Nov 18 5:00pm – 6:00pm Minor Characters: Talking about the ones who don’t always get mentioned in the cover copy, but are often more fun to write… Brenda Cooper, David Dvorkin, Laura Anne Gilman, Stoney Compton, Tina Connolly Fri Nov 18 6:30pm –
Heading down to OryCon… Read More »