We have gotten rid of the car on jumbletown, where it will make somebody’s wife quite happy at having a car and makes us *extremely* happy at not having to deal with it anymore. I have gotten *paid*, which is the first time I’ve been paid since, uh, May (welcome to being a professional writer). My parents are down for three+ weeks, house-sitting while we’re in America and then hopefully staying through Thanksgiving. I have gotten my hair trimmed (by a hairdresser who guessed my age as 25, maximum. That’s…
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GOBLIN QUEST
A month or two ago, ran a contest to send out copies of his book GOBLIN QUEST to people who hadn’t read it, all for the price of reviewing it in their blogs. I got one of the copies, and I read it tonight. GOBLIN QUEST is the story of Jig, an unfortunate goblin who–to summarize wildly–ends up on the wrong end of a D&D adventure party. Only it is much, *much* better than that. I mean, we’ve all taken a moment to wonder what it must be like to…
argh.
TQB is a 588 page manuscript. It’s flipping huge. It weighs six and a half pounds. And I know people who write mss twice that long. (Actually, if we hadn’t decided to cut TQB where we did, it would be at least 200 pages longer, so apparently I’ve got it in me to go long too.) But I reel in awe and fear of people who write 1K+ page manuscripts. Anyway, the monster has been shuffled into an envelope and shall at some point later today wing its way off…
Tommy Murphy’s Exciting Trip To The Store
Mom just related this story of Dad’s Exciting Trip To The Store. Dad went to buy some milk and a treat for Mom and happened upon a young woman, two early teen boys, and a bike at the edge of the road. Thinking someone might have fallen or been hit, he asked what was happening. It turned out the young woman, who was Polish, had fallen and the boys stopped to help her. …she’s been in Ireland a year, and has been married for less than that to a black…
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done. actually done. will photocopy the ms in the morning and send it off in the afternoon (pickup is arranged, at a horrifying €106.58, for arrival on Friday, a day later than it’s supposed to be, but nobody could guarantee it on Thursday for any price). *splat*