SCENE: Morning, sunny, Seattle. Two intrepid WRITERS and the PARENTS of one of them prepare to drive to Anacortes, for a ferry to Orcas Island. MARK: Here is my small backpack for our two-day trip, and two bags of groceries for our lunch and dinner. ME: Here are my several bags for my five-day trip […]

Mark and I are in Seattle, with my parents–today we did the Space Needle lunch again (like we did with my other set of parents), had a great time again–and then this time the Chihuly glass exhibit was open, so we got to do that too. Gorgeous! Here we all are, inside (and no, I

Busy times! My parents left today for Seattle; Mark and I will drive up tomorrow afternoon/evening to join them Thursday morning for further festivities, including a trip to Orcas Island on the weekend–something we’re all looking forward to, having been there before, each of us, and loved it. Today I spent some time helping out

Hey look what’s in the latest issue of Locus! 🙂 🙂 In other news: having lots of fun with the folks–today we met up with a friend of theirs and hiked the Eagle Creek trail up in the gorge. The weather was spectacular! I didn’t take any pictures, but Dad did, so if I can

Can’t sleep, might as well get up, I have a novel I’m almost done editing, OH MYGOD I FINISHED EDITING NIGHTCRAFT MOTHER did I really? yes really it’s done! SENT IT TO EDITOR WHO’S BEEN WAITING SO PATIENTLY FOR IT pack up get ready time to go, late but oh well, Mark and I head

Having a wonderful time, it’s all rushing by! We went to a reading Tuesday followed by dinner with Scarlettina and a new friend (alas, continuing a disturbing recent trend of bringing people to favorite restaurants only to experience service and/or food fail big time). But the company was fabulous. Yesterday, we caught the Men in

Well here I am in Seattle. I failed to bring Perfect Sunny Goodness with me the entire way–it’s a bit cloudy–but I did manage to bring it all the way to about SeaTac! So maybe it will clear a little more. I think I used the rest of my weird weather luck to conjure up

Well, actually, they don’t; but I did get up to what is now chapter 14 in Nightcraft Mother–I hit a patch that needed very little editing, after having moved rather more slowly over the last few days. So that felt good. I’m more than halfway through now. I’d hoped to be even farther, but, well,

Ooh tired today. That’s what a long day and a late night will do to you…so I got a late(ish) start today, but I still got good stuff done. Made more progress in Nightcraft Mother; it’s so satisfying to keep making it feel more genuine, less constructed. But that’s kind of exhausting work too, in

Today I was an extra again, for a TV show which films here, and maybe it even takes place here, but we sign very fierce forms about not disclosing anything, so I am not disclosing anything. But I can talk in a very general way about the general experience, which was generally very fun, and