This one’s mostly for Ursula. :) Baby moorhen, and my recollection of taking the picture is that it involved practically lying down in the mud to get on the right level with the wee little creature. :)
Picoreview: The Breakfast Club
Picoreview: The Breakfast Club holds up stunningly well. Even most of the hair isn’t too egregious, and there’s actually surprisingly little music in it to be dated by. The most unexpected thing in terms of dating is that it didn’t seem to have been filmed in stereo, and hearing the sound pretty clearly coming from only one side of speakers was startling. Oh, and there are a couple of language things–the use of “fag” and “retard”, particularly–that threw me considerably. So that was a dating thing too, I suppose. I’d…
well & truly birthday’d
I had a lovely birthday yesterday. Friends came over for our BBQ Housecooling Party, we ate lots, I was given lovely stuff (homemade marmalade! sugar scrub bath stuff! cheese!), I got my hair cut into a cut that I’m not certain I like any better than the previous one, and probably other good stuff I can’t remember right now. :) Happy slightly belated birthday to all my birthday twins: Esmerel, Silkblade, Novella, Fahri, Marilyn, Morgan, and Superman! :)
WFC awards
Ah. I have once more totally missed the boat on World Fantasy Award nominations, for which BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER & OTHER TALES OF THE OLD RACES is eligible as a single-author collection for the publication year 2012. Today, as it turns out, is the last day for nominations. If you happen to be a WFC member, and you care to make a last-minute rush on nominating BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER, http://www.wfc2013.org/wfballot01.html :) I am really not very good at this awards pursuit thing, which is kind of too bad in this…
Recent Reads: STONEMASTER
Okay, this one’s kind of a cheat, I admit it. STONEMASTER is the (working title for the) second book I’ve written for my nephew, out of a planned quadrology, and about 25 people in the world have read the first one. That’s about the number that will read the second one, too, until I acquire an agent and a book deal, but the reason for reading it was to prepare myself for writing the third book in the series. These are (from an admittedly biased point of view) pretty rollicking…