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Major Life Change

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...

Know What You're Doing?

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...

The FM Wand

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...

On The Writing Of Half-Vampire Puberty

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...

Almost Ready To Tango With The World

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...

Skill vs. Talent

It's Friday again. How on earth did that happen?

First, if you want to read a damn fine piece of writing, you can look at the Selkie's Grief Is A Color. The Selkie has a very fine eye for detail and observation. Also, one other announcement: Irene Goodman is auctioning off 25 critiques between December 1st and the 10th! Yes, 25! All proceeds will go directly to the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Deafness Research Foundation. It's a tremendous opportunity for any writer, and you get...

Drying the Wings

I feel like I'm out of the chrysalis, sunning my wings. New hair, new shoes, fitting into clothes I haven't fit into in at least a decade…I'm not quite ready to fly yet, but I'm getting used to the bright colors and the sunshine. Admiring those wings, and stretching them. We'll see if they carry me in a little bit. Right now it's enough that they're there.

I was supposed to take the past week and a half as a celebration of just how far I've come. Instead, it feels like I accelerated the...

Link Salad, and Stealing

I was up at 6 this morning (don't ask) and haven't slowed down since. So, my brain is tired and you get link salad instead of coherence. It's barely noon and I can't wait to crawl back into bed tonight. I was not made for mornings, guys. I just wasn't.

So, link salad!

* A great NYT article on female desire. (Hat tip to Violet Blue.)

* Falconesse with the math behind Harlequin's vanity press: how many books you'd have to sell to break even, hidden costs, and the like. Recommended reading for...

Another Bite At The Apple

The Authorfest last night was a ton of fun. Thanks to everyone who came out–new faces and old! I got to see Aimee A., Marne O., Jay S. and his lovely wife, and Kristin B. (otherwise known as the Bravest Woman In The World) as well as lots of new fans. I got to sit next to the amazing Nina Kiriki Hofman, who was very very kind to the Little Prince. (She also had her Nebula with her, which was awesome to see.) Big thanks to Powell's for hosting us, to Saint Peter Honigstock for putting the...

Authorfest!

I didn't make OryCon this year, but I will be at the SF/F Authorfest at the Cedar Hills Crossing Powell's this afternoon from 4-7PM. It promises to be a smashing good time, what with Timothy Zahn, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Barb & JC Hendee, fellow Dame Devon Monk, and yours truly as well as plenty of other awesome authors there. The 501st is also putting in an appearance.

Now I've got to bash at a short story before I have to get ready to go. Wish me luck.

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