Greetings from The Land Formerly Known As The Land of Very Little Internet (i.e. Mark’s parents’ home in the Sierra foothills). They have upgraded their internet here considerably, although, ironically, their new provider doesn’t support logging in to LiveJournal, so I’m using my mobile hotspot on my iPhone, which never used to get service here, […]

We had a lovely evening signing books at JayFest at Powell’s tonight, to benefit cancer research (and, of course, Jay). It was a smaller gathering than the big “authorfest” signings we’ve done after OryCon the past few years, but it had the same feeling, and I think we sold at least as many books as

So our new game is cribbage. I played it as a child, but don’t remember a thing, so we’re puzzling over the (inadequate and badly written) instructions that came with the board, supplemented with (crazily excessive and overwritten*) instructions on the internet. I think we’re mostly getting the hang of it, except for the one-point-at-the-end-of-play

And…he is back, I have picked up Mark at the bus station late this evening. Neither of us are entirely finished with our work-tasks, but finished enough so that he felt it was safe to return to my presence. 🙂 We will endeavor to make the next few days productive, despite being together. Speaking of

So I have been so VERY VERY BUSY since I got home…lots of freelance work, which is awesome; and tons of gardening (o my god the weeds); and getting back on top of the exercise/diet efforts; and just general stuff around the house… But no work on Hobgoblin. It’s not that I haven’t done writing-related

The last two days have been a flurry of All The Things, as promised…I’m making progress, to be sure, but oh my goodness there are certainly more Things to be done. But! I’ve slashed my email inbox down to something almost approachable; done a pile of freelance work; began to reclaim the garden; did some

It’s nice to be here. Bed now. 🙂 Tomorrow, I’ll try to make the most of my limited time here and get All The Things done! Heh.

Sorry for the radio silence! We’ve been traveling, with quite a bit less internet and time than I’d anticipated. First we drove down and attended a wedding in Mendocino. It’s pretty there– –but quite remote and there wasn’t any logging in. And from there it was off to see my various parents, which was lovely;

I seem to be constitutionally incapable of packing in advance. Mark and I leave for California tomorrow and I… did everything else today. Or, not even everything else, because there’s always more to do. But I didn’t even get started packing. The good news is, Mark didn’t either, and he has to drive down from

All the contracts are in and I can now give you the table of contents for the anthology Witches, Stitches, and Bitches, from Evil Girlfriend Media! And the stories are: Gabrielle Harbowy, “Blood Magic” Christine Morgan, “Urgent Care” Bo Balder, “The Knitted Man” Stephanie Bissette-Roark, “Spare Parts” Tom Howard, “The Secret Life of Dreams” Kate