requests a list of forthcoming books. I think I did this recently, but I’ll do it again ’cause she asked. :) Real quick-like, by series rather than publication date (I have confidence people can figure it out from there): The Walker Papers: COYOTE DREAMS, May 2007 CAULDRON BORNE, ~May 2009 WENDEGO HUNTS, ~a long time away RATTLESNAKE DANCES, ~even further out The Negotiator Trilogy: HEART OF STONE, Nov 2007 HOUSE OF CARDS, Mar 2008 HANDS OF CHANGE, Sept 2008 Untitled series from Del Rey: THE QUEEN’S BASTARD, May 2008 THE…
A bluebird just landed on his shoulder!
After 500 words and a lot of increasing sullenness, I told Ted I really needed to get out of the house and do ANYTHING, even go to a movie neither of us much wanted to see. However, before we actually got that far, I realized the real problem was that the house was disgusting and filthy and that I didn’t want out of the house, I wanted a CLEAN HOUSE. The downstairs is now sparkly. The upstairs wasn’t so bad to begin with, so all is well. After all that…
attack of the adverbs
I had one of those wretched back-to-college dreams where you realize it’s halfway through the semester and you’ve only gone to the first week of classes, and you don’t actually know your schedule, much less what’s going on in any of the classes but you’ve decided that by God you’re going to pull this semester together somehow so you’ve nerved yourself up to go to a class. Only in this case, first off, I thought I was going to a history class, and instead it proved to be a math…
nothing much, really
is reading THE QUEEN’S BASTARD. It’s fascinating to listen to his comments, because TQB is totally different from anything else I’ve written. Among other things, it has a cast of thousands, and will, consequently, have a cast list at the front of the book, because I’m the only one who can keep them straight, and even I needed a list for the first several chapters. Not so much for the characters as the countries, but still. Anyway, listening to him reading it makes me eager to do the revisions on…
~o early one morning o~
I gotta say, this waking up early thing is getting out of hand. o.O OTOH, it’s 10:30 and I’ve gotten 1200 words written (and I’d have had more if I hadn’t spent the better part of an hour playing solitaire. I really should remove that quicklink to it.), so there’s obviously something to be said for the waking up early bit. Yesterday’s thinks to do list was so successful I feel like I should make another one, but yesterday’s was so successful that I don’t have anything left hanging to…