last chance salon

February is rapidly coming to an end, and with it approaches the end of the Old Races novella “Hot Time”‘s availability. Somewhere around 5pm Eastern time on Sunday the 28th I’ll be taking it down, and it will not be seen again until I sell it to a traditional publisher. That’s likely to mean it won’t be available again for years, rather than months, so get it while you can! And if you’ve read it–or just adore me on general principles–you can go to the Crowdfunded Creativity site and vote…

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A Day Off

I got up and swam this morning, which I think was Quite Noble, given that it’s a real proper true day off. When I got home, Ted declared it was Moving Day, and so, er, I sat in the living room and read a book while he moved the computer room up to the Back Forty and moved my office down to the original computer room, and did a vast amount of tidying and vacuuming and cleaning associated with those actions, and indeed has now gone off into the wilds…

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done done DONE

WAYFINDER is signed, sealed and delivered. Or more like revised, spellchecked and delivered, but it’s DONE. Done done DONE. One book left to write, and then half a year OFF*. thinks to do: Feb 19: WAYFINDER due Apr 15: SPIRIT DANCES due Jun 30: New book proposals due *You people keep disbelieving I can take half a year off. For the record, I define “time off” as “not writing a book to contract”, which obviously it doesn’t include having to do revisions or creating proposals for new books, because hey,…

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interactive Kit is interactive

I seem to be doing a Spontaneous Interactive Author Day, as I declared an #askawriter thing on Twitter, and I just got a note from the fine folks at Bitten By Books that the Inheritors’ Cycle books are being discussed today, so I’m going to hang out there to chat and answer questions, too. So since Interactive Kit is being Interactive, if you want to play Ask A Writer here, too, well, go for it. :) The Road Home: miles to Isengard: 147.4 ytd km swum: 25

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I need a hymn which could potentially draw someone back to himself as he fought a great darkness. I’ve already used “Amazing Grace” for something else. :) Ideas, suggestions, places I could look? A song of some sort which references/relies on God’s strength would also do, but it pretty much either has to be a hymnal or something of Clear Channel radio station popularity, and a hymn would be better since it’s unlikely to run into copyright issues. :) ETA: Oh, wow. and absolutely nailed it with “Eternal Father, Strong…

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