So I’ve got this marvelous pile of notes from Brilliant Editor about changes to be made in The Queen and the Tower (and in fact the whole Nightcraft series), bolstered by a further deep and insightful phone conversation with Mark this morning, and so today I immediately got busy and set about….doing a bunch of […]

Sorry for not posting yesterday…I stayed up way too late reviewing my editor’s latest round of edits on The Queen and The Tower. Which are brilliant, as always, and I will have some work to do! At this point it’s looking like I need to sit down with the outlines for the three remaining books

Valentine’s Day (Take Two) was lovely–even if we didn’t get to see Cirque du Soleil–and we stretched the celebration through the weekend. As in, we laid very, very low. Didn’t even leave Mark’s room all day on Friday; went out for a little while yesterday. Though I did manage to get another 3,000 words done

So, faithful readers will recall that Mark and I were both sick last week, rendering our planned Valentine’s Day celebration (nice dinner out, Cirque du Soleil) inconvenient and implausible. So a day or two before, I phoned the Cirque, got this nice lady with a strong French accent, explained the situation, and she cheerfully rescheduled

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day–well, in the Page-Ferrari 2013 universe anyway. 🙂 And so I head to Seattle for our (rescheduled) fancy dinner out and Cirque du Soleil show. I have pretty sparkly toenails for the occasion, even though it’s winter and nobody but us will see them. Today I managed another 1,000 words on Hobgoblin–I’d

So: I am feeling better today; did some work in the yard, wrote 2,000 words, had a nice walk to Trader Joe’s (it was sunny!); and I am planning to go to yoga tomorrow, where I will ask the teacher to be easy on me, because sick, blah blah. I know, it’s starting to sound

The antiviral I was prescribed for my shingles has to be taken five times a day–with food. There’s a reason for that…and though I diligently ate every time I took a pill this last week, I also experienced evidence supporting that reason. But it was minor, and I didn’t worry much about it. This morning,

Marginally better every day. Today I spent a very satisfying while in the yard–replanted a rose bush, weeded and pruned a lot of dead stuff, sowed some poppy seeds (hopefully they will come up this year, unlike last year!), also moved one of my rosemary plants to the front, from a pot on the deck,

Oh hey! Valentine’s Day cards are on sale! Perfect for people who’ve postponed their celebrations because sick! 🙂

I’m just a little better today; starting to get stir-crazy, which is a good sign, I think. It was a gorgeous sunny day–our first one in forever–and I actually had the energy to go putter around in the yard for an hour. Nothing strenuous; cleared a couple of deck-pots of their old dead plants; did