a good mail day

Well, this has been a good mail day. I got an Amazon order *and*, utterly unexpectedly, a copy of DRAGON IN CHAINS, by Daniel Fox/ for review & potential quotage when it goes back to print. Having read some of Daniel’s work before, I’m pretty confident of liking this, and looking forward to reading it. Yay! (If I keep it up at this rate I’m not going to have to buy any books this year. I got Juliet McKenna’s splendid IRONS IN THE FIRE earlier this year (must send her…

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many random things

This is a post of many random things. :) First! My friend and co-writer at Magical Words, Misty Massey/, is running a contest in conjunction with the release of her new novel! Go check it out! :) Second, Ted and I are most of the way through 4th season Stargate: Atlantis. And last night we watched “Trio”, with the foreknowledge that Rodney McKay leaves the show at some point. As the story took a turn toward the potentially alarming, we both sat up straight and went, “HOLY *CRAP*, are they…

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extremely eclectic post

Ted was morally superior this morning and got up and went to the gym. I, on the other hand, slept until the cats came and lay on me, and then slept some more. I’ll go do my pilates in a minute, but I feel kind of guilty. Especially since it’s not actually raining this morning, and I fear I’ve lost my only chance for getting outside when it’s not miserable. …I wish people would put their twitters behind cut tags. I do not care about twitter. If I wanted to…

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cannot post

Cannot post. Must finish THE SUN SWORD. *reads voraciously, and wide-eyed* ytd wordcount: 12,200 miles to Dunharrow: 130.8

bits, bobs & real books

I have to say, a daily word goal of 1500 words until the book is done is a whole lot less stressful than trying to write 3 or 5K or whatever a day in an attempt to get it done Faster. It’s possible I should consider that in the grand scheme of my career…. I don’t know if it’s the low-key wordcount goal or if it’s that I’m Very Determined to finish reading this series, but I’ve been reading Michelle West’s Sun Sword books. I read the first three a…

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