*gone*!

*laughs* To my delight, the artist for the Dublin Laydeez Do Comics drew the aftermath of the cookies I made: I like how the plate says “gone!” :) Apparently having an artist do the, er, meeting notes, is standard for the Laydeez Do around the world, which is pretty nifty.

the essential kit

signal boost

So I have a reader, a woman whose name I know from the occasional email and several crowdfunding campaigns and chatting here and there over the past few years. Nice lady. Someone I think of in that fuzzy “friend” territory that the internet creates, you know? Acquaintance, however, is probably more accurate, since I didn’t learn that her oldest daughter is affected by something called Smith Magenis Syndrome until a few days ago, when Eleri cautiously announced she was doing a fundraiser. For their daughter, SMS causes behavioral issues, developmental…

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the essential kit

Well, shit.

I, despite several warning signs to the contrary, managed to be *so certain* that the Meat Loaf Farewell Tour concert that I bought tickets for in _December_ was tonight, May 19, that I did not check the tickets until I got to the concert venue tonight and nobody was there. The concert was on Friday, the 17th. Fuck. And we didn’t get the house we were hoping to. I’m going to go watch Sherlock and drown my sorrows now. *sigh*

Ring Road

Kitsnaps: Ring Road

Taken in the west of Cork, on the road to Bantry. Or rather, on a side road that we followed up into the hills because they claimed there would be a standing stone ring up there somewhere. There was–the cover of NO DOMINION features them in the background–but Ted was the only one brave enough/wearing the right shoes to actually get over to the stones to take pictures. However, looking back over the road there lent itself nicely to my Road Home series. :)

Mountain Echoes by CE Murphy

& that’s a wrap

Aaaaaaaaaand that’s a wrap: SHAMAN RISES went off to my editor yesterday afternoon, and now it’s all over but the revisions. I have one book left under contract and then I’m unemployed. :) I vacillate between relief and panic on that topic, of course. It does rather help knowing that if push comes to shove, I expect I could run a Kickstarter (perhaps for the 3rd Inheritors’ Cycle book) to cover my bases for a while. In the meantime, however, I do have a number of projects lined up–3 short…

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