stealing that

I don’t think I’ve felt this generally pleased to face the day in months. It’s not that I don’t still have a lot to do. In fact, I have enormous overwhelming amounts to do, including but not limited to, and more or less in order: – fix any NOTES in HoF, spellcheck, and submit it – do THE QUEEN’S BASTARD proofs – buy Christmas/greeting cards so I can – send out about 1 zillion books I’ve been promising people since, like, September – finish revising THE PRETENDER’S CROWN proposal –…

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nothing else matters

Yesterday when I came home from leaving the house to write, my parents said, “A manuscript arrived for you while you were out.” Talk about words to strike fear into a girl’s heart. *Jesus*. It transpired, after a moment, that it was a manuscript I’ve agreed to read for possible cover quotage, and nothing needs to be done with it immediately, but for one panicked moment there I couldn’t figure out what the *fsk* manuscript I could be receiving–HOUSE OF CARDS, for one impossibly-last-final-this-time-we-mean-it look? THE QUEEN’S BASTARD, with some…

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hsm.

has just made a switch to posting at her non-LJ blog regularly, and is using WordPress and a WordPress plugin to post directly to LJ at any time she makes a post. This, I think, could solve my problem of wanting to be able to customize my look & feel without having to hassle with comments going back and forth in three different places. I don’t care where the comments come *in*, as long as I can have them all emailed to me (which is the problem with the LJ…

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rain & writing

ZOMG, teh rain, it rains like a rainy thing. And our house, it hath sprung a leak. (Boy did the estate agent *not* sound happy about *that* when I called. But he sent somebody to fix it, so it’s all ok.) Ok, I said I was going to do a cover art post, but I lied. I’m too brain dead. I’ll work on it in bits and pieces and try to post early next week. Blee. ytd wordcount: 250,500 miles to Minas Tirith: 365