Stephanie Burgis's Blog
May 28, 2012
It’s my birthday, and I’m sitting on the lounge chair in my warm, sunny garden. The first roses are already out, along with big white, blue, and purple flowers whose names I don’t know. (As you can tell, I’m not the gardener in our family!) There are birds everywhere in the hedges all around, filling the air with chirping and trilling as I sit here and drink my morning latte. Maya keeps wandering over to investigate the sounds, but with a pretty casual air - bird-chasing might be fun for a dog, but even she’s too relaxed to get excited about it...
May 24, 2012
So, yes, this has been a hard week, and last night was particularly hard, since we spent 11:30 - 2 a.m. in our local hospital's A&E (a.k.a., the ER). Thank goodness, MrD is much, much better now (it was a frightening but temporary problem, fully solved by medicine, thank goodness), but we're all pretty tired now...but I could not possibly wait to share the piece of good news that was made public today in the UK, seriously brightening my day and week!...
May 22, 2012
*Warning: Very Whiny Post Ahead! Read on at your own peril...*
Oh, agh. There's so much I'd been planning to talk about the next time I posted here. It was a beautiful, sunny, warm weekend. MrD and I went on an epic, Winnie-the-Pooh-style Expotition in search of the elusive and possibly ghostly ice cream van. (We can hear it all the time, but we can never find it - and neither can anyone else in our neighborhood! It's almost like an urban myth - except that five times a day in warm weather, we all hear the tinkling music floating through the streets...)
May 18, 2012
I've really loved reading Nova Ren Suma's Turning Points blog series, where lots of different authors have talked about their biggest personal and professional turning points. Today it's my turn - and you can win a signed hardcover of Renegade Magic just by commenting on my Turning Points blog entry...
May 17, 2012
I was feeling really proud of myself this afternoon for everything I'd managed to do today. Not only had I written 631 words of my WIP this morning (hooray!) while MrD (who is all better, triple hooray!) was at preschool, but when I'd found out that something had gone wrong with our monthly credit card payment, I'd also hopped on a bus into town with MrD to fix things at the bank. Now we were finally back home with a lovely stack of library books as a nice bonus, and yet, with superheroine-style impressiveness, here I was getting even more done by cooking refried beans and hot chocolate...
...and at exactly that point, I looked down and realized...
May 16, 2012
Over at the Smack Dab in the Middle author blog, I just posted a really personal blog entry on this month's theme, Parents. Mine is called "Parenting and Writing" and it begins...
May 14, 2012
Last Monday I talked about how much I adore Sorcery and Cecilia; or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, and I posted a link to the first letter in the book, from Cecy in the country to Kate in Regency-era London (written by Patricia Wrede as the start to a letter game). As the second part of the Enchanted Chocolate Pot blog tour, here's the letter that Kate (a.k.a., Caroline Stevermer!) sent in reply...
May 11, 2012
My short story "Dancing in the Dark" was published today at Daily Science Fiction, where it's free to read online...
May 10, 2012
I'll be turning thirty-five at the end of this month, and in a nice piece of serendipity, I've seen various online friends posting about their own 35th birthdays lately. 35 is one of those numbers that feels...
May 8, 2012
Not one but two really wonderful MG fantasy novels come out today in America: Caitlen Rubino-Bradway's Ordinary Magic (the start of a fabulous new series) AND Ysabeau Wilce's Flora's Fury (the final book in an amazing trilogy)!...
