aww gone

My bwain is aww gone. Mostly from spending a lot of the evening doing grunt-level work on website redesign (almost done, but I don’t suppose anybody’s got some kind of nifty code thing that would strip HTML from 30 separate files and combine them into a reasonably manuscript-formatted .doc file? Anyone? Anyone? I might not need it, I haven’t checked to see if I’ve got the book in a .doc form already (or more like ‘still’) or not, but y’know, hope springs eternal). I have narrowly broken 25K on WORLDBREAKER.…

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Jane Yellowrock-Joanne Walker Crossover Fanfic

Faith Hunter has given me permission to go ahead and post the story snippet I wrote up a couple days ago. She and I are now discussing the possibility of sometime in 2010 actually collaborating on a novella which would be set outside both characters’ timelines/real worlds–in other words, pure fanfic, except written by the authors themselves–to put up either as a commission like I did with “Hot Time”, or simply sell as a direct market piece. People should respond to this post and let us know if you’d be…

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good books

I have, over the past couple days, read Faith Hunter‘s Jane Yellowrock books, SKINWALKER and BLOOD CROSS. They’re the most enjoyable urban fantasy I’ve read since I started writing it myself, so basically they’re the best urban fantasy I’ve read in ten years. This is not *only* because Joanne Walker and Jane Yellowrock would get on like a house on fire, although that doesn’t hurt. It’s not just that they’re wonderfully well-researched–which, given that Jane is a skinwalker (ie, shapeshifter) of Cherokee descent, was exceedingly likely to run up against…

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

It’s a white Christmas here in Ireland, and I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. And Ted got me my very favorite Disney movie ever, so that makes me happy too. All is well in Kit World. *beams* Merry Christmas, everyone! *beams more*

a contest!

Over on Magical Words, the group writing blog I’m a part of, we’re running a book give-away contest this week. Head on over to participate in my contest–for which the prize is a signed copy of one of my books, or a copy of “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, the Old Races novella I wrote this summer which has only been available to subscribers. While the novella will be available again to buy in February, this is your one and only chance to possibly win it for free.…

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