Sarah Monette's Blog, page 80

Worldbuilders--again!

Pat has put up a plethora of signed books in the ongoing Worldbuilders fundraiser for Heifer International. Amongst that plethora are a complete signed hardback set of the Doctrine of Labyrinths and a signed copy of The Bone Key.

five things make a post

1. heresluck is here! Yay!

2. Ergo, there was bookstore trolling yesterday. "How wrong is it," I said, "that I am COMPLETELY PSYCHED to find this book about the Hitler Youth?" heresluck and mirrorthaw thought about it for a moment. "Wrong," they agreed.

3. Aside from many books on the Nazis and the Holocaust (which are closely related and intertwined subjects, but not synonymous), I found another book on witch hunts in New England in 1692--this one about the trials in Stamford, Connecticut whic...

this is the sort of thing writers talk about all day

truepenny : Cats here say they are traumatized by the vacuum balrog. TRAUMATIZED.
matociquala : The Dark God Wakuum!
truepenny : Cthulhu's little known but much more dreadful younger brother.
matociquala : JUST ONE TENTACLE BUT IT REALLY SUCKS.

???

WHO was I talking to about sushi restaurants in the Twin Cities?

Whoever you are, the restaurant I was trying to think of is Sakura. If you still need to know. For whatever reason. Whoever you are.

Happy birthday to the fabulous coffeeem!(Also, happy birt...

Happy birthday to the fabulous coffeeem !

(Also, happy birthday to matociquala 's Giant Ridiculous Dog, whom I love.)

let the festivities commence

Over in Pat Rothfuss' crazy fundraising world, the four ms Booth stories (along with many other cool things) are on the block.

Current bid is five pounds, fifty pence.

goblins to the left of them, dragons to the right of them

77,400 words, the end of Chapter Twenty-Four, and no ?s except as punctuation.

Chapter Twenty-Four was hell on toast to write and it's probably going to need considerable shaping once the draft is done. But this is why first draft != final draft, and that's okay.

Not a very good day health-wise, so I'm pleased that I've accomplished as much as I have, even if most of it was just typing in what I wrote yesterday. We take our victories where we find them.

In other news, Elise struck like lightning...

a friend of the devil is a friend of mine

Despite the best efforts of winter, I did not have an accident today while driving first to the doctor's office to get the Mirena checked (all fine, hang in there, being the upshot) and to get my new glasses prescription. Also, because winter made me late, I got rather more done on The Goblin Emperor than I had expected. (This is why I carry a notebook with me. It saves me from doctor's-office magazines--or Nothing At All To Read which, as you know, Bob, is a fate worse than death.)

Every once...

Orwell in Port Huron

Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border.

This is a nightmare scenario (seriously, I have refrained from pinching myself only because I know I'm awake). Please spread the word and donate if you can.

*ahem*

LiveJournal seems to have decided that I do not need comment-notification at this time. Evidence indicates it may have decided this a while ago. I went back through the posts that seemed to have collected more comments than I remembered, and I hope I caught the important new comments--particularly, my misrepresentation of Cat Valente, for which I apologize again--but I'm now feeling a little paranoid, hence this post.

I don't answer every comment, but I do read them all--if LJ will TELL ME ABO...