Whew!

We have arrived safely home again. The flights were uneventful, as they should be. On the train we were sat in front of 3 teenage girls who were being horrid in the way that only 3 teenage girls can be. (More or fewer mitigates the horror. Three is the perfect number for true awfulness.) So for two very tired adults, that was somewhat trying. I tell you what, though, there’s nothing like being ...

quick post from SeaTac

I am bereft of ice cream–SeaTac doesn’t appear to have an ice cream parlour of any sort, which seems to me a terrible oversight–but am possessed of a beanbag chair and a wifi connection just a few yards away from my gate, so that’s not all bad. :) A few minutes ago a man walking by said, “How are those beanbags working out for you?” and I gave him two thumbs up and said, “Pretty good!”, ...

All I want for Christmas

... on the Atlantic shore (I'm partial to the Outer Banks) and invite all my writing friends to come join me for a retreat. We'll put suricattus in charge of stocking the wine cellar, ask mizkit to supply fudge, and jpsorrow would be in charge of hiring a houseboy who would pick up after us and look decorative while doing so. Make the jackpot big enough and we'll make the ...

The sister-creature and I did a very self indulgent road trip to see mizkit sign books tonight, we had fabulous weather, I-5 was decent and we got home safe. Because I had all the books already (and forgot the damn comix!) I instead did a bit of bookery in the Ancient History and Myth sections. I stopped after that, because I did more than enough damage there. Tomorrow I will catalog ...

yay fun!

Booksigning in Seattle was fun. Several people brought big stacks for me to sign (including Dermody books and comics! Yay!). Although I have piles and piles of my own books at home, somehow it’s different when somebody pulls out a 12-book-tall stack of well-loved books for me to sign. It looks like a LOT that way. :) Saw many people, old friends and new, and had a very nice evening indeed. I’m...

Seattle signing!

A reminder that I will be signing at the University Book Store in Seattle Washington this very evening, from 7-8pm! I hope many of you will be there! This is an event taking place downstairs on the far side of the cafe, rather than in the regular event area upstairs, so look for us there! (x-posted from the essential kit )

Busy busy days!

We saw a bunch of friends throughout the remainder of our visit in Fairbanks. Sunday night we were like, “….why exactly is it we’re not staying longer?” Well, because Ted’s mom had said she’d be off work the 19th-30th, and we could come those days, and, well, we didn’t really *think* any further than that, darn it. We didn’t think, “We could stay longer, see a few more people, do a few more ...

here we are!

Running slightly late, due, we claim, to living too long in Ireland and nothing is done on time, but now we’re at the Kaladi Bros next to Title Wave on Northern Lights Blvd and will be here until…later! (I’ll update when we leave!) (5:30pm and we’re leaving now! bye!) (x-posted from the essential kit )

saying no is hard!

Maaaaaan. I’ve been invited to two anthologies in the past week, and it’d be so fun to do both of them, but I swore to myself I wouldn’t accept any more anthology invitations until next October. And I was wibbling on one, at least, because I’d been told about it before my No More Anthologies rule, but I remembered I had to do a proposal (for more Inheritors’ Cycle books) between writing ...

that went well.

The book signing went pretty well, I think. Sold around 20 books, which isn’t bad for Fairbanks, and saw one friend from the North Road where I grew up whom I hadn’t seen in probably 20 years, plus another one who had no idea I was writing for a living, and did a wonderfully classic double-take when he saw me. :) And a third whom we had no idea was living in Fairbanks, but who is in fact ...