I am not all that neurotic, as writers go. I mean, yes, I certainly have my quirks, but I don’t do many, many, *many* of the things that lots of my writer friends do, things which all seem to be deliberate behavior to make them crazier. I do, however, have a Thing about my workspace. I like it to be not just tidy, but symmetrical. (“Kate,” the story says, “adored symmetry, although she wasn’t particularly orderly.” Yes. Just so. Some things don’t change.) So I’ve just spent the last hour…
Irish SF/F convention scene
I hope to do an actual P-Con writeup tomorrow, but for the moment I just want to say it was a lovely weekend, and that every time I come away from one of the conventions here I find myself saying, “I really do like,” where the name that follows the phrase could be any one of dozens of people. I’m very glad to have become a part of the Irish SF/F convention scene, and inevitably wish I had more time to spend with everybody who attends.
experiments in pincurls
We are experimenting in pincurls. Wednesday night Mom dry-pincurled my hair and I slept in the pins, then took them out. The curls remained for about three hours and then I went outside and they disappeared, fwoomp. So this morning I wet-pincurled it and spent some patient time with the hairdryer and after several hours took them out: Then I brushed them and pinned them back, achieving what my mother, who Knows These Things, feels will be very suitable pinup girl bhair fbor btomorrow. Assumn bing, of course (young indiana…
World Book Day
(meme nicked from ) The books I am reading: JUST MY TYPE: A BOOK ABOUT FONTS by Simon Garfield, SHADOW GATE by Kate Elliott/ The book I am writing: RAVEN CALLS by CE Murphy, YEAR OF MIRACLES & OTHER STORIES OF THE OLD RACES by CE Murphy, ALPHABET ADVENTURES by CE Murphy, BOOK ONE OF THE ILLIALIAD by name yet to be determined, LEGION: BOOK ONE by CE Murphy & Sarah Palmero/ The book I love most: TIGANA by Guy Gavriel Kay The last book I received as a gift:…