up at a silly hour

I’m up at a silly hour on a Sunday morning because I got up to make my hubby some lunch before he went off to work (thus ensuring, I hope, that he’ll eat something good for him today), and I find that, like my mother who staggered out of bed semi-consciously to make her daughters breakfast and lunches before we went to school, now I’m up so there seems to be no real reason to go back to bed. (The cats, who were both sleeping on me when I woke…

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there are…

There are, at this moment, five copies of URBAN SHAMAN at the Anchorage Barnes & Noble. Shortly there will be pictures of me dancing around like an idiot at the Anchorage Barnes & Noble. :) I got to sign the copies and talk to a couple of managers and they said that while they can’t cross-shelve them in mystery, knowing that it was a mystery and what kind of mystery readers might like it (Hillerman, Coel, Thurlo) gave them the ability to recommend, so that’s good. Wow. No longer do…

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oot!

WINTER MOON cover! And someone just told me they got an Amazon notice that URBAN SHAMAN had shipped yesterday. Can anybody out there verify that? *Still* haven’t found food. Must do something about that…

home again!

Home again, home again, jiggity jig! Our vacation was *lots* of fun and I’ll do some writeups later today, after I’ve… …found something to eat. Shaun’s gone, too, so there’s literally nothing in the house that can be prepared to eat: no milk for cereal, no bread for toast, no nothing. There’s a pint of buttermilk that’s unopened which might be okay for making quick bread with, but how do you tell if buttermilk’s gone bad? It’s past its open date… Would you like to know how geeky we are?…

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lost in honolulu

We were trying to find the Hard Rock Cafe and instead found an internet cafe (the HRC is another couple blocks down), so we stopped to get online and find directions to the HRC. :) I have been in Hawaii 7 days and I have not gotten a sunburn. *Ted* got sunburned, but *I* didn’t. Hah! We’ve been having a bloody magnificent time. It’s been really laid back, and we feel sort of like we haven’t been frantic enough to be having fun, but we’ve been having an amazing time.…

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