Lili St. Crow's Blog, page 193

AGENT ZERO Cover Reveal!

So, I do this thing–I sometimes write books expressly for my bestie and writing partner Mel Sterling, and then when they’re done I send them to my agent, and somehow or another they sell. (Hedgewitch Queen, I’m looking at you.) So if you’re wondering how I came to write a book about a virus-soaked superspy […]

Swearing Sotto Voce

I started the day by dropping a measuring cup onto a wineglass, causing an explosion of shards all over the kitchen and into the bowl that held two-thirds of the makings of my breakfast. The floor also received a peppering, which meant the dogs came running, thinking the sound meant GOOD THINGS TO EAT. As […]

And By Golly

It’s hard to sleep in an overly-warm room, especially if you still can’t hang your foot off the edge because you know the things that live under beds can squeeze beneath even a futon frame. Then, when there’s a huge furry animal who loves to cuddle and shed heat on you, and it’s too warm […]

Common Fellows

Someone’s writing a book with mushroom hunters (not me, not me) and so I am taking pictures of whichever ones I come across. Spring’s the best time, with the rains coming in, but you can find them in damp spots all summer long–if you know where to look. Anyway, these fellows are pretty common, they […]

Hurry Up, Wait

Now that we’ve successfully painted two rooms, I can’t wait to get my bedroom done. And the hall, which will probably be next. And the living room, which will require a ton of prep–moving bookshelves away from the walls and stuff. The big headache will be the dining room/kitchen–I’ve been looking at the wall spaces […]

We painted. Nobody died.

So, yeah. Remember that huge hole in my bathroom wall? The one that was a result of extensive water damage, the one we found all about when it was leaking down to the basement? Yeah. That. Well, we finally got actual greenboard in there–the Chez’s former owners had tiled directly over drywall. Just…regular drywall, and […]

Rabbit Run

When I can’t run, B and I walk. This park is one of her favorites, full of interesting smells. The fence runs along a majestic bank of blackberry tangle, parallel to a highway. The traffic drone is soothing, I imagine, to the rabbits who have made the tangle their home. I have not seen a […]

No Perspective

Spent the last half of last week feeling progressively more physically run-down, culminating in actually succumbing to the Princess’s post-AP-exam cold. She got better just in time for me to get walloped. Saturday afternoon was the worst of it, and I couldn’t take my long run yesterday, which means I’m twitchy as fuck right now […]

Await Developments

Eighty degrees and sunny one day, fifty-eight and raining the next. If you don’t like the weather here, just wait a day or so and something new will come along. (It’s more often fifteen minutes than a whole day, but the principle is the same.) Today the plumbers come to move everything back a bit […]

Rubik’s

The Little Prince has grown addicted to Rubik’s Cube. His greatest wish was for a 4×4 one to match his 3×3, so I made a special trip–and when he took it out of the package, we found out it was already broken. Luckily, a local toy shop had one 4×4 left, and I snagged it […]