Sarah Monette's Blog, page 81

General G. A. Custer, he was a mighty handsome man

75,000 words! Only 35,000 to go, and that uneasy mutter of there sure is a lot of STUFF left to cram into this novel is getting louder.

Also today I finished the foreword for the Chinese edition of Mélusine. (Really, you should read that with a bunch of extra exclamation points: the Chinese! edition! of Mélusine! Because mere words cannot express how geeked I am about it. !!!!!) And fixed what I hope are the last few fiddly bits of "On Faith" for Shadow Unit .

Yesterday, mirrorthaw and I went to...

Storytellers Unplugged for December

The last of this round of Q&A.

I now have three virtual snowflake cookies.Thank you, Sec...

I now have three virtual snowflake cookies.

Thank you, Second Anonymous Virtual Gift Giver and musicianatheart !

ETA: Four! Thank you, alice_montrose !

Thank you, Anonymous Virtual Gift Giver!

Thank you, Anonymous Virtual Gift Giver!

following up on a couple of things

1. Pursuant to this, SFWA posts the MWA's statement disqualifying Harlequin from its list of Approved Publishers. The MWA's statement makes it clear that, yes, as I suspected, Harlequin still intends to use its rejection letters to point people toward DellArte Press.

2. from the Department of "Do You Know What Irony Is, Baldrick?"--it only figures that posting about the Mirena and its peculiar effects (thus far) on my menstrual cycle would goad my body to pony up and demonstrate that it does, ...

on the third hand

John Scalzi and Cat Valente have been talking about short fiction rates (as an outgrowth of John's muck-raking posts about a market which pays 1/5 of a cent per word), and since my experience as a short story writer has been quite different from either John's or Cat's, I thought I'd weigh in with the view from here.

I should say three things up front:

1. I am both a novelist and a short story writer (whereas, in the grossly over-simplified version John is a novelist who sometimes writes short s...

Female troubles

CAVEATS--PLEASE READ

1. This is going to be TMI for a lot of people, of both the XX and the XY persuasion. If you don't want to read about menstruation, DO NOT CLICK.

2. THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL. My birth control decisions are none of your business, unless you are mirrorthaw . If you are, you already know more about this issue than you want to; if you aren't, rest assured that I have made careful, responsible, and informed decisions about same, none of which are (a.) under discussion...

Worldbuilders

Here is the main post for Pat Rothfuss' Worldbuilders auction/raffle/thingy for Heifer International. (No, before you ask, I don't know which section he's planning to put my books in. We'll all have to wait and see.)

If you want to participate, in any of the possible ways, please make Pat's life easier and, as he asks, read the instructions carefully before you make your donation.

71,500 words. Twenty-three chapters complete, without any...

71,500 words. Twenty-three chapters complete, without any ?s left in them except as punctuation. WIKTORY!

Now I am going to go exercise. mirrorthaw bought me the EA Sports Active--for those who are interested, I like it much better than the Wii Fit. It's more flexible, more responsive, and it provides a much more balanced workout. Also, it does not NAG me.

Meanwhile, Pandora is providing Cab Calloway. There was Mississippi John Hurt earlier. Life is not too shabby.

Happy birthday, papersky!

Happy birthday, papersky !