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Eclipse Reading

Reading taken during Monday’s eclipse. So that answers THAT particular question…

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Release Day: DESIRES, KNOWN

Remember that accountant-and-genie book I told you guys about? Well, now it’s out in the world! A ring. A man. A centuries-old secret. To accountant Emily Spencer, the junky thrift-store ring is perfect for her Halloween costume. A few too many drinks, a slip of the tongue, and all of a sudden, there’s a guy […]

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Feathery Pinhole Shadows

Tree shadows, acting like pinhole cameras during the solar eclipse. The kids went down to a local athletic field with eclipse glasses to see the totality, and came back afterward so I could use the glasses. Man, science is amazing. The birds and squirrels are still not quite sure what the fuck, but I suspect […]

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Alas, Bandit

So, yesterday, our remaining cavy, Bandit, didn’t eat his salad for breakfast. Normally he devours his greens with a good will, but…yeah. There were a couple other disturbing signs, which led to a vet visit and the decision to let him go painlessly. They go quickly, once they’ve decided to, and he was never quite […]

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Creative Irritation

I’m hitting that part of a creative spike where things like eating and sleeping fill me with irritation, because they take time away from writing. Anything that calls me out of the other worlds I’m building tap-by-tap is resented. Well, not quite anything–the kids and the dogs get a dispensation, but even when I’m with […]

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Crumble

When your daughter’s best friend comes home unexpectedly from college, and goes blackberry picking, and generously leaves you a zillion blackberries, there is nothing left to do but make a crumble. I was a little worried, because I just eyeballed the ingredients instead of measuring them. But it vanished over the course of an afternoon, […]

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Protecting Your Work, Part II

I’m a sucker for a good bodyguard story. I pop those narratives like candy, they hit all my kinks. There’s something seductive about the idea of being protected, of someone caring enough to want to keep you safe. I can, black-hearted and stone-faced bitch that I am, be brought to soppy tears by a good […]

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Protecting Your Work, Part I

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “protecting the work.” I ran across the concept years ago, in this essay by Jennifer Crusie. Much like my beloved writing partner’s “it makes me tired,” it’s a phrase I absorbed and had to spend a long time learning to apply. I’m slow, yes, but I can be […]

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Poor Queequeg

I finished Moby-Dick this past week. A common complaint is that the middle part of the book, pages upon pages of whale biology and whaling history and and and, is somehow “boring.” I think Melville deliberately structured the book to follow the pacing of the hunt itself. A whaling voyage, he says, could last two […]

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Shiny New Stuff

Six months of furious activity is beginning to surface, much like a whale rising to breathe. (Yeah, I finished Moby Dick, more about that later. Poor Queequeg.) So the last half of 2017 has some Really Cool Stuff coming for my readers. Like the story about the genie and the accountant! It’s finally seeing the […]

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