A few of ’em, anyway. Fat ravens, Books My Friends Wrote sighted in the wild at B&N, a layered turtle cheesecake, sunset, stuff like that. :)
dry alaska is dry. and dark.
Agghlg. Dry Alaska is dry. I could sleep in a tub of lotion and I would awaken with all the lotion having schlucked into my skin and I would still feel dehydrated. This is not an aspect of Fairbanks that I miss. Nor is the early dark, though that’s not so bad right now. The sun’s gone down in Barrow and won’t be up again until late January, but Fairbanks still has almost eight hours of light. It won’t be until the solstice that it’s down to three. Still, when…
first e-books, now vanity publishing
Last week (the week before? very recently, anyway), Harlequin Books–the parent company which publishes my Walker Papers novels–decided to try to take a chunk out of Ellora’s Cave profits and open Carina Press, an e-book-only press for…well. Smut*. This past week, Harlequin has decided to jump on the vanity press wagon. They’ll edit and publish your book for the bargain price of something like $6K, and then they’ll take 50% of the royalties on a book that’ll never go into the bookstores. I could rant, but author Jackie Kessler does…
greetings from the fwozen north!
After the longest Thursday in history (it lasted something like 33 hours, thanks to the time change), we arrived safely in Fairbanks, where one inhalation of the brisk winter air reminded us why it is we don’t ever want to live here again. Not even a deep inhalation, you understand, because the dry cold air makes you start coughing before you can pull in enough for a *deep* inhalation. :) I’m awfully glad to be here, though. Today was clear and (cold, obviously) utterly gorgeous. I had forgotten, kind of,…
pack pack pack
clothes are packed. toiletries are packed. netbook is packed. kitchen is clean. laundry is done. sheets are changed. reservation sheets are printed. passports are packed. stack of books is increasing. camera is packed. shopping list for parents is written. *thinks* arright, well, we have the passports and the reservation stuff, anything beyond that can be replaced. hidey ho! miles to Minas Tirith: 64.6