I haven’t yet posted about Match It For Pratchett because I’m easily distracted by bright shiny objects, but I have been meaning to. On the off chance anyone reading this hasn’t heard of it, Terry Prachett, who was recently diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, has donated half a million British pounds (approximately $1m USD) to Alzheimer’s research. His fans, within a matter of days, had started the Match It for Pratchett fundraising effort, which has the aim of raising an additional half million pounds, to bring it up to a nice…
Author: mizkit
best friends evar :)
I have the best, and funniest, friends in the world. Trent sent me a care package filled with the things I’d asked for–hairspray, dental floss, toothpaste, ibuprofen, books (oh lordy, the books! Carol Berg’s BREATH & BONE, Jim Hines’ GOBLIN WAR and Jack Campbell’s COURAGEOUS, all of which I want to read right now), chocolate chips–and a bag of root beer candies and a bag of other-flavor-soda candies, neither of which I asked for and which are the second time somebody in the US has taken pity on my lack…
The Great Plot Synopsis Project
A couple of weeks ago I got email from Joshua Palmatier inviting me to participate in the Great Plot Synopsis Project, wherein he was asking a bunch of published writers to post a book synopsis in order to help show aspiring writers how they’re done. (Joshua keeps having good ideas like this and then *following through on them*. I think he’s an alien.) I have blatantly stolen the Synopsis Q&A Joshua posted in the entry that inspired this cross-posting of synopses by published novelists. I have stolen it ’cause it’s…
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It’s been a long busy day here. I spent the morning working on (blessedly uncomplicated) line edits, and then went to the St. Patrick’s Day parade, where I watched just enough of the parade (ie, about 3 minutes) to determine that Military Kit was not amongst the army folk, and then I slipped away from the barrier and spent the next couple hours going up and down Patrick Street taking lots of pictures. A sampling: I took a picture of a guy with a microphone, who…
things i need…
Things I need to write that are not actually words in a book but which are none-the-less work-related writing and which keep piling up not that that’s bad it’s just that I’m feeling snowed under so maybe if I get some of them done I’ll feel less so, and if this is avoidance for the line edits, well, too bad: – quick note to the Dabels – paranormal romance blog – author introduction blog – synopsis blog – comic book blog We went to see the Spiderwick Chronicles movie this…