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The Promo, the Good and the Readable- Free Range Oyster

*Yes, yes, yes, Royal Blood, the second to Sword and Blood will be coming out in May. Might be mid-may instead of early, because of other obligations and the round of house viewing, but it will come out. Then Eternal Blood in June, come h*ll, high water, comicon OR moving.)

The Promo, the Good and the Readable- Free Range Oyster

J.M. Ney-Grimm Hunting Wild

Young Remeya – fosterling and maid-in-waiting to King Xavo’s sister – worships the forbidden horned god alongside the princess. A worsh...

All the Greed

Yesterday I posted a meme on Facebook about those who call themselves children of the Earth being welcome to stay here, while the rest of us went to the stars. I did it mostly because the million face book memes had made me pissy with the bathos and environmental pieties of city dwellers who wouldn’t know nature if it took a raw chunk out of their left buttock. It annoyed me in the exact same way the constant evocations of religion by people who are clearly non-believers do. And in the end th...

Happy Human Diaspora Day

I think the first time I became aware of Earth day must have been right at the beginning of it.

I don’t remember precisely, you see. It’s not just that as you get older the days before about fifteen get really fuzzy, it’s that they were fuzzy at the time. These were revolutionary days in Portugal and the essence of a revolution — as I tried to capture in Through Fire, which in its very final form and fully proofread (mostly I added a word here and there to shore up the romantic element, as I...

Post Later

Okay, you reprobates. There will be post later, but I’m not sure when. Someone neglected to tell me we had an errand this morning that required me to be in a place without this computer till early afternoon. I have alternate arrangements. If they work, post very soon. If they don’t work, post in the afternoon.

Till then ABSOLUTELY no rotating the Earth on its axis, and NO running slaloms around the sun again. Are we understood? Beta Centauri has complained about you kids….

Slide In All Directions

Me? I’m a homebody. I like having my routine. Without serious provocation or enticement, I will get up at the same time, shower in the same water temperature, have the same thing for breakfast and sit down at the desk at the same time to churn out words.

It’s not so much being boring, as getting the little decisions out of the way, so I can sit down and face the big decisions: what is motivating this character? What does she do now?

Or if you prefer, I’m a sorry little woman who lives only vi...

Liberty and Safety, a Blast From The Past Post, August 24 2013

*Sorry about the unholy lateness. The short form of this is we were putting an offer on a house, when someone got there first by hours, again. ARGH.*

Liberty and Safety, a Blast From The Past Post, August 24 2013

It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is a bad thing – a very bad thing – to make Sarah berserk out over breakfast, which is why most sentient species, some invertebrates and some single-cell life forms have learned to avoid it.

No, this doesn’t mean Dan and the boys are in...

Messy Day

Back tomorrow. Started the day going over finances, trying to figure out the 3 years when we’re still responsible for both boys.

I haven’t been able to work in a week, and before you send me remedies for the block, I’m NOT blocked, I’m just not at home, due to looking at houses, or if at home we’re doing stuff like cooking and eating, or sleeping.

Inspiration still hits, but I’ve been deviating it to art, because I’m way too busy to write stray stories that just appear. And this one, I don’t...

Tribal

Human beings, whether you believe they were created “out of” or evolved out of creatures of the Earth are built on a frame of great apes. This is good when you think in terms of chipping flint or building moon rockets. But when you think in terms of “why aren’t humans angels?” that’s the answer too. Because we’re uppity apes.

Me, I’m not a human hater. I’d like us to be better in many ways, but I don’t expect us to be perfect, because we’re great apes. It’s a relief we no longer physically fl...

Harbingers

UPDATE: Great, another word press improvement! Now you have to TURN COMMENTS ON. They’re off by default. Sorry about that.

Perhaps it is because we’re looking for a house to buy that I’m very sensitive to the signs of economic downturn and economic “never got very well.”

This is actually the equivalent of being a middle school girl trying to figure out whether a boy likes you, and all the contradictory signs would drive you nuts.

I mean, we never had a summer of recovery, at least not here, a...

This is NOT a post

I was out all day looking at houses, and came back fairly late for us. Yes, the deal fell through. Yes, I’m all out of spoons on the house front. Now the only question is “to buy the first thing that’s not horrible, or not.” The idea of a forever home or anything more than 5 to 7 years is QUITE gone. Yeah, the house might surprise us. Anything is possible. But what we’re looking at now is JUST buying SOMETHING. Which is not the frame of mind I wanted to be in.

OTOH a) if we’re not fully moved...