Lili St. Crow's Blog, page 189

Smoke

The smoke pall has lifted, which just makes the fires more dangerous. Acres and acres of burning. We’re not coughing and tearing up every time we step outside–one of the Princess’s friends, who just returned from China, remarked that it was only half as bad as Beijing–but everyone is still unsettled. The dogs can probably […]

Thinking Tree

On our (sadly infrequent) woodland rambles, Miss B and I pretty much always pass the Thinking Tree. Like Jenny Anydot’s house, it’s just one of my little names. The tree in itself is not a huge thinker. However, it’s a lovely facilitator. The trunk is at just the right angle for climbing, and one can […]

Familiar Fear

I mean to blog more. Really, I do. It’s near the end of summer and the scramble to get kids ready for school has reached a fever-pitch, and Gallow 3 is alternately eating my head and stubbornly refusing to move on alternate days. Every book is different, every one takes a slightly different route through […]

Critical Mass

Gallow 3 is spiking towards the finish. Which means all other projects are put on the back burner while I choke out the last third of the book all in a rush. After a book reaches critical mass, it starts demanding instead of having to be dragged. So it’s double coffee in the mornings, the […]

Heavy Branches

Walks with Miss B often lead to rambling in tangled bushes, her nose busy among the roots and me keeping my arms well away from clinging thorn-branches. The blackberries are heavy with fruit, and no few of them have turned soft and semi-alcoholic. Backyard and streetside plums are both dropping their fruit, and wasps crawl […]

On Blurbing

I get mail. And sometimes it isn’t hatemail! Okay, okay, often it isn’t hatemail. I do get more positive and constructive letters than angry, nasty screeds. Well, most weeks I do. All part of being a woman on the internet, right? Ahem. Anyway, this landed in my contact form queue, and after I replied I […]

STEELFLOWER News

I promised a big announcement yesterday, and I can no longer put it off. Not that I wanted to, but…you know. Big things make one nervous. The gracious folks at Samhain Publishing are going to help me bring out another Steelflower book. *winces a little at the screaming* Now, I know you have questions, and […]

Harvest Approacheth

Got up this morning, ran–Miss B tried to kill me twice, but both times I won my agility roll–and lifted weights. (Very slow, very light weights, with good form.) I am bracing myself for the huge announcement tomorrow, but for the rest of today, all I have to do is write on the third and […]

Odd Fellows

Portland had Odd Fellows. And still does.

Neither Hans nor Franz

Yesterday, partly because of release day nerves, I put the new weight bench together. The Princess helped, as is her won’t with any assembly. Sometimes the only thing keeping me from taking a sledgehammer to recalcitrant Ikea furniture is her soothing presence. I know, I know. This is just another way for me to hurt […]