MOST GORGEOUS DAY EVAR I was barefoot! For hours!! And had the back door open!!! And put the top down on the Miata when I went out driving!!!! Yeah it’s been a long winter. But I wasn’t the only crazy person out there relishing the sun and warmth, oh no. Not by a long shot. […]

Wow, two pretty days in a row….not sure what to do about that! 🙂 So of course I puttered in the yard. In addition to tidying the house, repotting my new orchid, making more progress in Nightcraft Mother, doing some freelance work, and about a jillion other things that kept me busy all day. No

Oh the sun came out today, and oh it was lovely….I (of course!) worked in the yard, which makes me so happy. The ferns are returning! (for comparison, here was my front yard last year): And some tulips are blooming in the other bed up front: And the primroses are going crazy: Spring is awesome

Heh, funny story. So a friend called and asked if I could do a favor and drive someone to the airport. As it happened, I could. Along the way, I realized the car needed gas–my gas light came on. “That’s okay,” I told my passenger, “there’s enough to get to the airport.” There was; I

Springtime comes to Portland, however tentatively. It got me thinking about my life decisions, and how I got here. I love flowers, and I always thought I could have been a florist if things had gone a little differently. Nowadays if I need flowers I need to go to a florist and get them there.

So I am still pretty exhausted from the con. It probably didn’t help that I had to get up early and go to work today…but, such is life. I spent a good deal of time on my drive yesterday thinking about energy, and exhaustion, and cons, and the whole introvert/extrovert thing you hear so much

I am back in Portland, after driving all day today from my folks’ place in California…basically an 11 hour drive, give or take. I’d hoped to be home rather earlier, but I got a sort of late start, and then the drive-length was increased by Other People Having A Very Bad Day: a propane tanker

I’m having a marvelous time at FogCon–in fact rather too much marvelousness, such that I had to have a bit of a lie-down this afternoon to recover from excess marvelousness. 🙂 I will just say, Desperance is a bad influence. But here he is with his lovely fiancee Karen, both of them looking so adorable

Here’s the official release from Morrigan Books, copied shamelessly from their site: Morrigan Books to publish Shannon Page’s Eel River by Mark Deniz Morrigan Books is pleased to announce the addition of Shannon Page’s novel, Eel River, to our eBook line in 2013. Shannon has worked with Morrigan Books with stories in both Grants Pass

It gives me an enormous amount of pleasure to announce that Morrigan Books is going to publish my novel Eel River! I am just cross-eyed with excitement to be telling you this…I was trying to write this post up all cool and sophisticated and all that but actually all I want to write is HEY