Once more my blogging efforts have fallen into a deep black hole. This time it is the Black Hole of Vaccination Sickness, Head Colds and Revisions, which are not, if you’re interested, a combination I recommend. The revisions, actually, are quite mild. (The head cold less so, and the Vaccination Sickness not at all, although it was at least mercifully brief.) I am performing what refers to as a commaectomy. Also a semi-colonectomy and a long-sentencesectomy. But both the editor and the agent gave me what are essentially line edits,…
Baba Yaga’s Daughter
BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER & OTHER TALES OF THE OLD RACES has been submitted unto its publishers, the good folk at Subterranean Press, and I am both pleased and excited about this. There are seven stories, four of which are entirely new, and they cover a span starting some 200 years ago up until a little while after the trilogy ends. I hope people will like them. :) I’ll let you all know as things proceed!
How To Write Magical Words
So while I was off having a baby, the people at Magical Words, the writing blog I used to be a part of, did something cool. Editor and writer Edmund Schubert (best known to long-time readers of this blog as the guy who threw himself through a hedge to greet me) put together a writing how-to book gleaned from the posts my fellow bloggers and I had done. It’s called HOW TO WRITE MAGICAL WORDS, and it is frankly awesome. Seriously, that sounds all tooting our own horn (and it…
wow.
I just turned in the final edits on SPIRIT DANCES, which means the Walker Papers series is officially 2/3rds in the can. In celebration, I give you the cover! (Behind the cut, ’cause it’s large.)
How we got here isn’t important.
The Irish government, which has just given up all pretense of sovereignty by acceeding to a prohibitively-interest-rated “bailout” loan from the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and the European Union and by agreeing that all financial decisions will be passed through the EU before they’re finalized, has been insisting that how we got here (by guaranteeing investment returns to the very wealthy, which, I’m pretty sure, is the antithesis of how investing works; the whole gamble is that there *is* no guarantee) isn’t important, and that it is in…