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I might post tomorrow, I might not. In any case, all the social stuff is done. I miss my sisters already. I've had a full house for two days and find myself wondering what I have to cook next and then realizing that it's back to the normal schedule.

The kids have settled down to watching Marx Brothers movies and I'm considering getting back on the treadmill. A couple days off is a nice, but I need to get back in the swing of things. An odd thing has happened, though, I'm getting wordcount...

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My sister's here and I'm about to engage in preparations for Cookiepalooza. It's very simple: I invited a bunch of people and will be making sugar cookies. There will be wine, laughing, and a spaghetti feed for whoever wants to stay and eat. That way I get all the fun of making cookies and I don't have to overeat OR throw them away. Plus, my friends get cookies. Everyone wins!

Of course, I would be still fighting off the flu while I do this, but that's academic. I've only got a mild case and I...

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First, the links! An octopus who loves his Mr. Potato Head. Lauren Leto's screamingly funny Readers By Author. And Bitten By Books is discussing the Jill Kismet series today.

And now, for the Friday post.

Not everything in my life centres around writing. It just looks that way.

I've lost a considerable amount of weight lately. Part of that is stress, another part of it is exercising six days a week. Also, a couple weeks ago, I picked up a book about using cognitive therapy to help normalize

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First, the links: I did the Page 69 Test for Flesh Circus. Here's James Scott Bell on What, Writers Worry? and Nathan Bransford on how to respond to an editorial letter. The inimitable Gillian Spraggs has more on the Google Books Settlement and Monica Valentinelli on Plagiarism and Too Much Free. I've been saving some of those links for a bit, things are crazy.

I was on the treadmill this morning (big surprise, I'm up to six days a week on that damn thing and wishing I could do more) and Van M...

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Today is a day for clothes shopping. No, not for me. I'd rather have my skin peeled off in strips than go clothes shopping for me. But I do like going shopping for the kids. We're doing the midyear school clothes basics tour today–jeans, T-shirts and solid sweaters, because they keep growing and this will provide a base for them when they Go To School. It's going to be fun.

Sadly, it must be a banzai run rather than an all-day safari, because I've line edits to keep whaling at. Editing makes m...

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It is my firm opinion that every major life change deserves a major hair change. Therefore, I have gone back to my natural color.

This comes as a shock to anyone who's seen me, but I am actually blonde. Born that way. I got so tired of blonde jokes and the like that as soon as I could, I started dyeing my hair. The dyes grew progressively darker and darker until I was consistently black-haired. You know, most people want to bleach their hair out to blonde, but not me. I wanted to get as far...

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The Friday post is late today, since I made the call to go to Burnside Powell's with the kids and the Selkie. We had an Adventure–lost the car in the parking garage for a bit, but eventually found it before anyone starved to death. I found a Catullus in Latin with the English translation facing, and a lit-crit of Nabokov for $5. Color me happy.

So, first this Friday, the news. Betrayals is on the NYT Children's Paperback List again at #8. That makes three weeks. I'm literally speechless with a...

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YAReads has an interview with me up! I'm pleased and proud to report they've chosen Betrayals as their Book of the Month for December, so I encourage you to go on over there and take a look. I'll also be posting a guest review there in the near future, so stay tuned.

Yesterday, someone brought up a good point: when you've got a school full of teenage half-vampire and werwulf boys, and one half-vampire girl, it's not just the choice of tampons or pads you have to deal with, but also the...

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There's an interview with me over at A Good Addictions, where I talk more about process and what Graves's original name was. I have a couple other interviews to finish and send off today. I have a cup of tea from the bagel shop, my handwarmers are on, and I'm wearing two sweaters. I sincerely hope I don't have to go anywhere else today. I've frozen and thawed about four times already today.

Now, if you're the squeamish sort, or if you feel threatened by the female body, this post is not for...

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This weekend I finished the revisions on Heaven's Spite. Or more precisely, I realized that bashing at it would NOT make it better and that it needed to go live with other people for a while. So I send a reasonable first draft to my agent and editor. It feels good to have that weight off my mind. I had to ask for an extension to finish it, because I wasn't sure I could. There's whole chunks of it written during some of the most intense emotional pain I've ever felt (that's saying something...

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