Yay! Contracts!

Contracts in the mail! Yay! Maybe I’ll walk to the post office instead of the store! :) -does a little dance- Also, final cover copies in the mail! With the Charles de Lint quote! And my name is definitely bigger! Yaaay! Also, DRESDEN FILES in the mail! YAAAAAAAAY! Thank you, ! This is a Good Mail Day! Yaaaaay! Yaaaaay! Here! To celebrate, have the opening chapter of COYOTE DREAMS! :)

on cats & pirates

After several days of feeding the cats separately, I have concluded pretty conclusively that Lucy is not interested in overeating for food’s sake. She was clearly overeating so Zilli didn’t get the food. She’ll still charge in toward Zilli’s food if she’s near it when I set it down, but if I pick her up and take her into the other room and feed her, she eats a very moderate, even tiny, amount, and then is finished. Of course, she’s on ordinary cat food now, instead of the easily digestible…

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-breaks down down laughing until i cry-

, who is what I consider to be really truly American, ethnically speaking, is participating in this ongoing discussion regarding racism. Right now the discussion is focused on racism in the publishing industry. One of her debate partners feels strongly that anyone who has any black genetic material in their makeup is by default black, and that claiming to be anything other–like, multiracial–is selling out and so on and so forth in that manner. Now, what I can remember of Sarah’s ethnic background off the top of my head includes…

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bibs and bobs

Every time I go outside it starts to rain. Ok, sometimes it starts to rain when I don’t go outside, too, but it’s a bother to go out for a walk and discover doing so is an invitation for the skies to open up. But I walked! And now I only have 20 miles to go to Dunharrow, and 12 days before the end of the month, so hopefully I shall get there before April. Revisions proceed apace. I actually got a decent amount of forward motion done today, and…

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jez’ a reminder

My monthly two week writing challenge starts today and goes through the end of March. Participants can keep track of what they’re working on and how far they’ve gotten in their goals over at ! thinks to do today: – fold the laundry – exercise, which is not the same as – go for a walk – see how far I can get with HoCH …and not that this has anything to do with anything, but I want the ability to create more ‘current moods’ and assign new pictures to…

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