Holiday Blog, Part III

I have remembered that the reason I was so fond of biking in Alaskan summertime is that when biking, unlike when walking, I was moving faster than the goddamned mosquitoes. My goodness, Monday turned out to be a 5K day! Tuesday: At B&N for a Writing Blitz. I have no net connection (deliberately) so I shall keep track of my word wars in the blog. And someone is coming to meet me for lunch at noon, so right now I have…37 minutes to write. Starting a new book, no less,…

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Holiday Blog, Part II

I have read TWO BOOKS already. Granted, one was Ursula’s DRAGONBREATH, which is short and has a lot of pictures, but one takes victories where one can. The other is Alethea Kontis’s ENCHANTED. Now, Alethea is this person I met at WFC in Austin several years back. She and Ed Schubert and some others for some reason took pity on me as I was sitting there, pathetic and alone, on the bus to the convention hotel, or maybe at breakfast, or something. I don’t really remember the details, mostly because…

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Internet Fast

Going off-line for a couple of weeks, or at least that’s the plan. I want to catch up on reading, writing, etc, and not obsessively check Twitter and Facebook every four and a half minutes, you know? I leave you with what is theoretically an embedded video but which may not work, so if it doesn’t, you can watch my toddler learn to headbang to hair band rock here. :) Internet fasting commencing in three…two…one…now.

YEAR OF MIRACLES!

We’re going on holiday tomorrow. I’m declaring it an Internet Fast, at least to the best of my ability to do so when I still have actual access to the internet, so I’ve jumped the gun and have published YEAR OF MIRACLES on Amazon et all so I don’t have to do it while on vacation. Revisit the world of the Old Races and discover the pieces that set the Negotiator Trilogy into play… Four hundred years ago, master vampire Eliseo Daisani and dragonlord Janx both fell in love with…

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