Four fantasy heavyweights contribute original tales featuring intriguing female protagonists to this enthralling anthology. Kelley Armstrong expands her Women of the Otherworld series to include spunky Toronto vampire Zoe Takano, who proves herself a master of “Zen and the Art of Vampirism” as she fends off dimwitted trespassers. Centuries after the events of The Crown of Stars, Quman hunter Kereka struggles against her tribe’s misogyny in Kate Elliott’s strong but staccato “Riding the Shore of the River of Death.” Baba Yaga’s daughter, the beautiful and quixotic narrator of C.E. Murphy’s…
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thinks to do
– buy cat food & cocoa powder – upload pencils for chance #4 – do the )(*&)(# thumbnail sketch for page 1 of chance #4 before ardian flies from indonesia to kill me – do the dear reader letter – email the talent search woman – email lanny – go for a walk – write …for a woman who, for the first time since she started a writing schedule, only has the 3 actual deadlines that are contracted for this year on it, I seem to be putting a number…
first words of the year
Well, the first words of the year have been committed. 1500 down, 268,500 to go. Also, I think my pedometer is under-counting my steps. *grumpy* ytd wordcount: 1500 miles to Dunharrow: 106.8
seedlings & writing
Well, I didn’t get any writing done, but I re-read TRUTHSEEKER, which needed to be done to go forward, so I guess it wasn’t a total wash. And I did the other things I needed to do today. And cleaned the living room. (Now Ted is cleaning the office and making me feel vaguely guilty for sitting here while he works. Not guilty enough to get up and help. Just guilty.) But! The nifty thing is that my Christmas orange seeds that I planted a month ago have suddenly become…
going back to work
Vacation is over. I’m supposed to be going back to work today. So far I’ve turned the heat on in my office. I’m thinking of following it up by making a desktop background with all my book and comic covers. As inspiration, see. thinks to do: – email the comic team with deadline information – respond to matrice’s emails – write for an hour – go for a walk