Mara: the September picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. Maras are South American rodents which look precisely like jackalopes; all they lack are the horns. They’re very very shy and extremely sweet-seeming creatures, but I have no idea, possibly they go all vorpal bunny on you if you get in their faces. :)
I mentioned this on various social media yesterday, but I’m still thinking about it now, so I’ll post here with more thought and detail. I’m enormously enjoying writing MAGIC & MANNERS, my Pride-and-Prejudice-with-magic pastiche, and I’ve been contemplating what to do with it. I’d like to keep going, but being a writer, I’d also like to get paid for my words (crazy, I know!). I’m also particularly enjoying the whole no-particular-deadline aspect, which means I don’t know that I want to sell it traditionally right now, or even do a…
Ten days and 35K later, STONE’S THROE can be called a draft. It’s a god-awful mess and needs serious revision, but the draft is done and the rest can be fixed. By Wednesday. @.@ Actually, there are parts of the book I’m happy with, and it came in at the wordcount I was aiming for, so I’m okay with that. And, er, I actually find that having finished it, I’m kind of hoping for the chance to write The Further Adventures of Amelia Stone, so I guess we’ll just have…
O.M.G. I sent my friend Marc some fudge in December because, er, well, frankly, he made it easy by just posting his address on one of the pictures of fudge I’d posted, and it amused me, so, fudge. I just got the same container back in the mail, except now it was filled with Marc’s baklava. Let me explain this to you: Marc’s baklava is to regular baklava what my fudge is to regular fudge. I got the package and was all like “Oh huh, mail from Marc, maybe he…
Zen Master: the August picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. I actually have quite a few good orangutan pictures, almost none of which I’ve posted. But once I’m done with the calendar images I’m going to try to, er, post not-animals for a while, so there may not be any orangutans to show off despite having good pictures of them. :)