jpeterman

My J. Peterman order has arrived. To my delight, everything, including the size 8 skirt-trousers fits, except one blouse that I wasn’t sure of to begin with and which not only doesn’t fit, but wouldn’t look good on me if it did. It would’ve been fine if it’d been the kind of material I thought it was, but it wasn’t, so. Anyway, that’s maybe the only problem with J. Peterman’s artistic renderings of their clothes instead of photographs. All I need now is a professional photographer… :) It’s gotten too…

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Choosing the hills to die on

The Old Races deal has been this very exciting saga, and I’m going to use it to illustrate how, as a professional writer, you ought to choose your hills to die on. Also to tell you about how cool my agent is, and the sorts of things that go on behind closed doors while you’re trying to work out a book deal. So this is how it went (cut for length; LJ readers can click through above):

for those of you…

For those of you who do not typically read my main journal, go read it. :) :) :) :) :)

HAH!

HAH! *beams idiotically* The astute among you may have noticed that last week I mentioned Ted and I were going out to dinner to celebrate, and that I’d go into the details of celebration later. Now it is later! I am *button-poppingly pleased* to announce that my publisher, Luna Books, has made an offer on HEART OF STONE and its two sequels (currently titled HOUSE OF CARDS and HANDS OF FLAME). For those of you playing at home, this is the gargoyle trilogy, which is as a whole known as…

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thinks

thinks to do over the next couple days: 1. email about travel routes for the pets 2. call about audi 3. call about corporate housing go over to rent corporate housing 4. photograph & list furniture for selling 5. call carpet cleaners 6. go through boxes & make storage unit run 7. watch more smallville 8. call about student loan consolidations 9. call utility companies 10. add things to this list as i think of them 11. call & see if anybody can recover the mac hard drive for me…

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