Possibly the Best Fanmail Evar: I was in line at Borders Bookstore, waiting with the horde for the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” I decided to buy a book to read as I waited… [and] “Urban Shaman” called to me. I got though the first 4 chapters before I had to stop to complete the original task. I was hooked!! I had the latest Potter and “Urban Shaman” at home the next day. I started Potter, put it down after about 150 pages, picked up your book…
*beams*
THE QUEEN’S BASTARD is officially done. It’s 580 pages long, which is well and away the longest book I’ve ever written. I wrote a paragraph today that I am totally, completely, utterly happy with. It does everything I want it to. I think it’s elegant. It’s got a little of that GGK chocolatey doom feel to it. And no, I won’t quote it here, because it would more or less spoil the whole book. But I’m very happy with it. :) And there we go. It’s submitted. Bwah! :) (Holy…
neeeeeeeerow!
All right. I’ve gotten through chapter fourteen, leaving me four to do, and while I suspect I could do another one tonight, it would probably be better for the book if I didn’t. There are things I want to address that my editor did *not* make note of, and at this point it’d be much easier to just let those things go, and I don’t want to do that. If I stop now with any luck tomorrow morning I’ll feel more like tackling them, and the entire end of the…
great groggy tortoise
Our bedroom was extremely freezing last night, and because 1. getting heat in this house requires far more cognizant thought than I had at 3:20 in the morning when I had to get up to use the bathroom (I was aware that I was so cold turning the heat on would be a good idea, but I honestly was not functional enough to do so, as you have to go to the boiler, choose from “you can have hot water or you can have heat, but you can’t have both.…
harry potter and the geeks of cork
It is 2:30 in the morning. Three hours ago, we began standing in line to buy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which we had no intention of reading tonight, so, as the man behind us said, “We could’ve done this at five after nine in the morning without any queue at all.” This is what the line looked like at 11:30pm: It kept going way, way way around the block. There were easily a thousand people, and very likely twice that. They cheered when the fire engine drove by,…