Last week I gave Young Indiana the new Pokemon Z-A, which came out the week before. The next morning shortly after he got up, I said, “Have you emptied the dishwasher?” and he said, “I don’t know, have you run it again this morning?” I opened it and it was empty and, as I’d filled it at about 11:30pm the previous night, I said, “Oh! When did you empty this?” Indy, mumbling: right before i went to bed at 5 Me: What did you say? Indy, slightly more clearly but…
HEART OF STONE returns! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome (back) to the world of the Old Races as NYC lawyer Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn’t just wanted for murder – he’s also a gargoyle! HEART OF STONE is available in e-book at Amazon, and will be available in print by the end of the month. (Sorry, dropped the ball on that one.) Very excited to have this back out in the world and very much looking forward to bringing the rest of the series…
LAUGHS I have, for years, been telling the story of asking my then-editor Betsy Mitchell whether my upcoming book could have a woman with a HEAD on it, because the fashion of book covers at the time was for them to not. I knew the logic was that readers can identify better with women they can kinda sorta imagine themselves to look like (Betsy also added “at least on their best day, back in high school, while wearing an unnoticeable all-body girdle and just having come from the best hairdresser…
After last session’s demon cat episode, which only took up the morning, we went back to the hotel and drank heavily until all hours of the morning. This at least had the effect of rendering the shock cards on Evelyn and Teddy moot. It also involved Teddy and Somerset down at the docks, shooting into the water while wearing nothing but socks, and Evelyn cutting bangs. Somerset’s player: yes, right, because a haircut is mentally stabilizing All three women players: you are clearly not a woman We concoct an elaborate…
In a recent chat with my husband about what I wanted from this art project, I said, “let’s face it, in terms of influence I’m—” Ted: starts laughing Me: What? Ted: I’m waiting for you to say ‘landing somewhere between Wendy Pini & Jim Lee’ and…well… I mean… o.o Me, vaguely indignant: well i was GOING to say Elfquest and X-Men, not Jim Lee specifically, but…yes……. I mean, I’m never going to be as good as either of them, but still, it was both funny and spot-on. But so anyway,…