I got my hair cut yesterday. The result looks something like you might see on a recovering chemo patient. My hair hasn’t been this short since I shaved my head, and shaving my head is a better look. However, shaving it again would mean going through this stage again at some point, because it’s an unavoidable hedgehog look. I’m relieved, at least, that I got it done now, because by MeCon next weekend it’ll be almost okay, and by the Forbidden Planet signing in mid-September it should be okay. *crossed…
some icons
Yesterday /Lithera pointed out some new images from some noir thing Marvel is doing, so I’ve made up some icons from the images. Not sure I’m *entirely* pleased with them, but I like the banner a lot, at least, and maybe I like some of the others too. :)
tiny bubbles
A while ago I sold my short story “Them Shoes” to Subterranean Press, and it is now up in their Summer magazine! I’m all pleased. :) I haven’t been able to figure out how to start the 5th Walker Papers, despite several attempts. I complained of this last night. Ted said, “Start with a (extremely obvious solution).” Why couldn’t *I* think of that?!? *flails around in exasperation* I’m seriously considering emailing all of those nice “I’d buy ’em if you wrote six books” comments on the last entry to my…
evolution of a series
So back when I started THE QUEEN’S BASTARD, I knew it was going to be a big book. I was guessing around 175K. My editor said, “Glack!” and we cut the book at a place which I actually am *really* pleased with; it allowed me to do a shift for THE PRETENDER’S CROWN that wouldn’t have worked nearly as well if the book had ended where I initially planned for it to. (Plus, where I’d initially expected it to end turned out to be at about the 230K mark, which,…
*happy sigh*
I have finally, after what, nearly two years? read Guy Gavriel Kay’s YSABEL. It’s not my favorite of his books, nor my least favorite, but it was a GGK work, and I am happy. It heartily makes me want to re-read the Fionavar Tapestry, which is inconvenient because I don’t have them here, and it reminds me I should someday re-read A SONG FOR ARBONNE, which I didn’t especially like. It’d be interesting to see if I just wasn’t paying enough attention. Hrm. That wasn’t especially fascinating, but it seems…