A last-minute reminder that I will be signing books at the Fairbanks Barnes & Noble from 1-4pm today! (God, I hope at least a few people show up!)
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all and sundry! Yesterday we bundled off to see the Forbeses, who are old family friends of mine, and spent a splendid three hours or so talking and being entertained by their 7-month-old son, who was Absolutely Fascinated by Ted. We think it was the goatee. :) And we also ran into another friend when we stopped for lunch, so yay for small towns. :) The house is very warm with the fire going and the oven having been on since about 8am, and I have the…
alaskakaka pictures!
A few of ’em, anyway. Fat ravens, Books My Friends Wrote sighted in the wild at B&N, a layered turtle cheesecake, sunset, stuff like that. :)
dry alaska is dry. and dark.
Agghlg. Dry Alaska is dry. I could sleep in a tub of lotion and I would awaken with all the lotion having schlucked into my skin and I would still feel dehydrated. This is not an aspect of Fairbanks that I miss. Nor is the early dark, though that’s not so bad right now. The sun’s gone down in Barrow and won’t be up again until late January, but Fairbanks still has almost eight hours of light. It won’t be until the solstice that it’s down to three. Still, when…
first e-books, now vanity publishing
Last week (the week before? very recently, anyway), Harlequin Books–the parent company which publishes my Walker Papers novels–decided to try to take a chunk out of Ellora’s Cave profits and open Carina Press, an e-book-only press for…well. Smut*. This past week, Harlequin has decided to jump on the vanity press wagon. They’ll edit and publish your book for the bargain price of something like $6K, and then they’ll take 50% of the royalties on a book that’ll never go into the bookstores. I could rant, but author Jackie Kessler does…