The only way in which I am prepared for leaving for America tomorrow is that I have finished the latest chapter of HANDS OF FLAME and have a printout of the entire manuscript as-is so I can work in a journal rather than on a computer. Well, that and Mom’s made me a perfectly awesome dress : I suppose if I have those, passports, and plane tickets, in the end, pretty much anything else can be dealt with. It would, however, be helpful to have the laundry finished so I…
books in the wild!
sent a photograph of HEART OF STONE in the wild! Accompanied, as you see, by the Walker Papers (and, somewhat startlingly, a bit of Robert Newcomb thrown in). Yay! :) (I have a bunch more in-the-wild pictures people’ve sent me over the last couple years. I need to get all of them posted one of these days.) After I walked up and down Blarney Street nine hundred times on Friday, came over and made me go for another walk, so I did five or six miles Friday. My feets were…
Catie’s Very Busy Day
I’ve walked up and down Blarney Street hill three times today, which is one or two more times than I usually do. I’ve bought a lamp and an ironing board and an iron, but not tape or a ruler, which it also turned out were needed; I’ve bought food for dinner and … no, nevermind, I don’t have enough brain to even remember everything I’ve bought, but there was a brass band playing in the city centre, and I’ve been busy. World Fantasy Con (eta in Saratoga Springs, NY) is…
Life is good.
We have gotten rid of the car on jumbletown, where it will make somebody’s wife quite happy at having a car and makes us *extremely* happy at not having to deal with it anymore. I have gotten *paid*, which is the first time I’ve been paid since, uh, May (welcome to being a professional writer). My parents are down for three+ weeks, house-sitting while we’re in America and then hopefully staying through Thanksgiving. I have gotten my hair trimmed (by a hairdresser who guessed my age as 25, maximum. That’s…
GOBLIN QUEST
A month or two ago, ran a contest to send out copies of his book GOBLIN QUEST to people who hadn’t read it, all for the price of reviewing it in their blogs. I got one of the copies, and I read it tonight. GOBLIN QUEST is the story of Jig, an unfortunate goblin who–to summarize wildly–ends up on the wrong end of a D&D adventure party. Only it is much, *much* better than that. I mean, we’ve all taken a moment to wonder what it must be like to…