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Friday Cat Blogging Holiday Edition

I'm going to get you for this.



I'm going to get you for this.



I'm going to get you for this.



I'm going to get you for this.

Speaking of Cover Art…

Ooooooooh:



Notice the fancy series title below the laptop screen in the image.

I blame John Scalzi

Ravirn...on velvet...eviiiiiiiil:



I see it:



Me and it:



Recreating the Wil Wheaton pose:


And Scalzi's original eviiiiiiiiil.

Friday Cat Blogging

I'm not posing for any more pictures,
so you better make this a good one.
(taken about 12 hours before she died)



Me and my shadooow…



My surgery scar let me show you it!



Turn the damn heat up already!



Have you ever really looked at your foot…
'cause I find it fascinating.

The Urge to Click

One of the things that often surprises my students is that, until very recently, every bit of editing that happened to my manuscript was on paper. My editor might email me her comments, but after that I was expected to do them and then print out two copies and mail them to New York. (One stayed with my editor, the other went to a copy editor).

Until very recently (like within the last two years), I would get a copy edited manuscript back with post-it notes stuck all over it where the copy edit...

New Writer Badge

So my son Mason has discovered the joys of Pokemon Diamond Version for the Nintendo DS Lite (or whatever... it's that thing that replaced the Gameboy that all you kids are into.) Anyway, he's forever running up to me telling me he got a new badge for winning battles and such.

I think we need a system like that for writers.

You could have a "Completed first short story" badge and one for "First Pro Rejection" badge... the list of possibilities is endless. You could end up with a chest full of me...

Friday Cat Blogging—Ave Leith Edition

We lost our white cat to cancer this week. I'm too heartbroken for captions today. I'm just going to post the pictures. She was a dear old thing and we loved her very much.

Just Checking In...

Since I notice we've all been a bit absent from the blog, I thought I'd just write a quick note to prove that we're still here, still plugging away...

For myself, I caught some nasty cough-thing that's totally wrecked my sleep cycle. Yet, I managed to finish off two proposals for new series ideas and send them off to my agent. I only hope they're as good as my cough-medicine addled mind THINKS they are. And now I'm that strangely happy place where I'm inordinately proud of my own cleverness ...

Industrial Smart Things (with a side of link salad)

I'm home with a sick boy today, so the most imaginative thing I have time for is cut & paste. With that in mind, I provide a smattering of Smart Things, with a (loose) focus on the publishing industry:

If you want to know how your book might be marketed, how sales and advances are determined, and the general nuts & bolts of what goes in to a publisher marketing your book, Pimp My Novel is a gold mine of a blog. A few choicer items I have been reading there of late include:

Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 o...

Monday Morning WIP Thread

Today I've got rewrites for the Aqua Vitae proposals on the agenda. I'm hoping to get those done and printed along with the manuscript for the revivified Swine Prince so that I can send a package off to my agent Tuesday or Wednesday. I'd originally hoped to get both to him in early October, but the combination of Laura's sabbatical and the resultant increased travel schedule have meant that non-contract work is not going apace. It's a small price to pay for all the extra time together that sa...