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Which I'm not even doing yet, because I like to leave it to the VERY last minute doncha know… But that reminds me: If you're thinking about Greywalker books for your friends or family, you can order signed, and personalized copies from my lovely local independent bookstores:
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
or
University Book Store and be sure to [...:]

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I'm utterly over the moon: the German book site Das Lituratur-Cafe has put up a German audio translation of my Christmas werewolf story "The Werewolf Before Christmas" today. This free download is a promo for the German version of the anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe that I contributed to in 2008. The anthology was [...:]

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This is another of those topics that comes up with horrifying frequency when published writers go out in public (or open their email). The (often dreaded) question "where do you get your ideas?" And related things, like "where do you get your characters?" Or my personal favorite (cribbed from an interview with Charlaine Harris) "where [...:]

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OK, using the magic of Random.org, I have a list of numbers, which equals a list of winners for the Pizza Party invite! Yay!
Jeo
Ross
Robyn
Tara
and Alexandria!
Evites will be going out to the luckies in a few minutes! Congrats and looking forward to seeing you at the party! If for some reason you can no longer [...:]

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Wanna come to a party in Seattle? Well you can! Maybe, sorta. Here's the deal: I'm throwing a party on December 12 from Noon to three in downtown Seattle–very informal–and I have space for five (that's 5) fans plus one guest each. No transportation or accommodations are provided and you must be over 21 to [...:]

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Ok, so I'm off to San Francisco for Writers with Drinks! this Saturday. Here's the press relase:
When: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30, we swear!
Who: Javier Grillo-Marxuach, S. Bear Bergman, Mary Robinette Kowal, Naomi Quiñonez and Kat Richardson!
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, [...:]

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And now I am done with draft 1 of LABYRINTH after 5,500 words Tuesday. The ms is off to my editor at a slightly bulky 110,600 words. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Sunday and Monday I hated it and wanted to kill all the characters off. Today I cried over what I [...:]

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I crossed the 100,000 word mark on the LABYRINTH manuscript today. Still two scenes and an epilogue outstanding, but I'm finally on the last leg.
Progress has been slowed by several things and that's been frustrating when The Deadline is this Wednesday. I've been down with a 3 day headache–very unusual for them to last [...:]

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This is something most moderately-successful commercial authors get asked about frequently. In fact, I think it's the thing I'm asked about most frequently after "where do you get your ideas?" and "are there going to be more books in this series?" Even more than "will you read my book?" and "Why don't you have a [...:]

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Because I am a truly silly person and because I have friends who, like me, love words, I've started a seriously silly (and sillily serious) Face Book group called Writers for the Advancement of "Kerfuffle" (and other marvelous words). So, if you like odd words and want to see them spread around, come and visit.
(Yes, [...:]

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