…the year of shameless self-promotion. Or at least that’s how it’s going to start out. Tis the season for pre-ordering: SPIRIT DANCES is up for pre-order at Amazon (but not Indiebound, or I’d link there too). SPIRIT DANCES is book 6 of the Walker Papers, just for the record. By popular request (okay, one person asked), I went ahead and did a sort of late Ireland 2011 calendar. The biggest advantage to having done it late means that the week it becomes available it’s also on sale, because Zazzle’s got…
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begin as you mean to go on
Oddly enough, I only ever heard the phrase “begin as you mean to go on” in relation to the new year (or at all) last year, but I kinda liked it. And I have, perhaps not entirely through my own free will, begun as I’d like to go on. Less sugar, more fruit, which is a perennial … “goal” is overstating it. Vague intention. :) Not so much with the 1K a day that’s the Necessary Goal to get RAVEN CALLS done on time. So far I’m only 1K behind…which…
Apparently…
Apparently 2011 is the sort of year in which I re-discover the cool hats I own, and decide to wear them. (And then take self-portraits in car windows.) It is also the year I’m going to try to do and post more photography in general. Small in the Large I have hopes of writing a revolutions post sometime soon, but I’m not actually very confident of that happening. Oh well, happy new year anyway! :)
Er.
I have done something phenomeonally stupid with “Year of Miracles”, which is to say, I have not updated the mailing list with the addresses necessary, and gmail usually takes a few days to clear them when you’re adding a bunch at once. So although the damned story has been done for three days I may end up delivering it late, because I’m a *moron*. So sorry. :P ETA: Screw it, I’m just going to do half a dozen blind CC mails. Half have now been sent and I should get…
oh, wow.
Oh, wow. A few weeks ago I did several Skype interviews with some 9th grade English students in MA–their teacher reads my books, and she’s been using the Walker Papers short story “Rabbit Tricks” in her curriculum. She and I both thought it would be fun to have the kids talk to the Real Live Author, so I spent several hours talking with several of her classes. They’ve written me thank-you letters. They just arrived in the mail, and I mean dozens of them. I’ve only read a few so…