I’ve had LA Confidential from (the Irish equivalent of) Netflix for about two months now, and so, because Ted is going off to watch the new Punisher movie, which I’m sure is too violent for me, I’m going to have A Night In. It will involve popcorn and orange juice and hopefully a kitty snuggling up with me, and possibly a viewing of Stardust after I’ve watched LA Confidential, but probably not because there’s some kind of international dance competition thing on TV at 9 that I kind of want…
a good mail day
Well, this has been a good mail day. I got an Amazon order *and*, utterly unexpectedly, a copy of DRAGON IN CHAINS, by Daniel Fox/ for review & potential quotage when it goes back to print. Having read some of Daniel’s work before, I’m pretty confident of liking this, and looking forward to reading it. Yay! (If I keep it up at this rate I’m not going to have to buy any books this year. I got Juliet McKenna’s splendid IRONS IN THE FIRE earlier this year (must send her…
eke eke.
I have eked my way back past 40K on the book again. By about seventy words, but hey. miles to Dunharrow: 183.6 ytd wordcount: 38,100
many random things
This is a post of many random things. :) First! My friend and co-writer at Magical Words, Misty Massey/, is running a contest in conjunction with the release of her new novel! Go check it out! :) Second, Ted and I are most of the way through 4th season Stargate: Atlantis. And last night we watched “Trio”, with the foreknowledge that Rodney McKay leaves the show at some point. As the story took a turn toward the potentially alarming, we both sat up straight and went, “HOLY *CRAP*, are they…
*beams*
Here is the utterly wonderful story of how S.C. Butler/ met Stan Lee.