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Friday Cat Blogging (Belated Edition)

Friday Cat Nap Event, First Heat



Friday Cat Nap Event, Second Heat



Sunbeam and nip-pad, a powerful combination

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Beta

The SpellCrash Beta is finished and off to those of my readers who take electronic copy. Next I need to print some copies up and drop them in the mail or hand deliver them as appropriate. Then I can be done with this book for a month or so. Tonight, I see a show. Tomorrow, I do nothing at all.[image error]

Local Writing Related Events

Twin Cities National Writers Union

Wed. April 22
Book Marketing De-Mystified: Three authors share marketing tips

On Wednesday, April 22 at 1 PM, the Twin Cities chapters of the National Writers Union will hold a free workshop with advice from three writers about book marketing. Lori L. Lake, Michael Allan Mallory and Marilyn Victor will share their ideas for getting readers to buy books.

Location: Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis.

Lori L. Lake’s books, including the popul

Pat Wrede's Got A Website

The wonderful Patricia Wrede's got a shiny new website. If you've never read her work, you're really missing out. She's written some wonderful novels and "Utensile Strength," also known as the frying pan story, is one of the funniest short stories in the whole genre. Not to mention, she's an all around spiffy person.[image error]

Monday WIP open thread & belated cat blogging

Morning all,

I'm just back from a week in Arizona visiting various relatives and looking forward to editing out the beta draft of SpellCrash. Hopefully I'll have that done by Wednesday and can get it out to my first readers (memo to me: check in with the usual suspects). If that works out, I'll probably call Thursday a delivery day, and take a long weekend before looking into what to do next. Maybe the final draft of Horus, maybe reread Swine Prince and redraft the first three chapters so I can g

Too Nice...

...Went outside.

Which is a rather obscure reference to a great Minnesota Historical Society coffee table book called, "Too Hot, Went to Lake" (which is a photograph of a half-finished paint job of a barn with those words on it.)

Given that the majority of the Wyrdsmiths live in Minnesota, and the weather here has FINALLY turned pleasant, I suspect that's why you're not seeing a lot of blog activity from any of us. For myself, I spent the day on the couch in a patch of sun transcribing a bunch of

Writing and the Recession

Perhaps you've heard? The economy sucks right now.

Apparently, it's even become fashionable to be frugal. I just read about the term "recessionista," which is defined as someone who is ostentatiously penny pinching because it's what all the cool kids are doing.

The good news is that library usage is up. I read the precise statistics somewhere, but I can only confirm it anecdotally. Thanks to warmish weather here in Minnesota (40 - 60F,) my son has rediscovered the joys of bicycle riding. We've be

Guest Blog: The Kindle 2: More Than a Geek’s Dream?

Okay, I'll admit it. I like my books. I like the way they feel. I like the way they smell. I like all the shelf space they consume in my room. Peruse my shelves and you will see rows of paperbacks with near-perfect bindings and others that have been read so many times that even an anal freak like myself can't keep them from showing wear.

So why on Earth would I ever consider -- gasp! -- an e-book?

Well, I haven't. Not yet at any rate. But I gotta admit, the Kindle 2 is piquing my interest.

Now, mos

Brainspace Now Available for Things Other Than Book

Hey folks. Now that I'm done with the alpha draft of SpellCrash I should have a lot more available brainspace to deal with questions about writing and talking about writing in general. I know I've missed a couple of questions that have gone by on various threads--Shawn's question about posting fiction online for example (will get to that soon, btw).

If you posted a question and it got missed, please feel free to post again in this thread. I will probably really start in on this stuff not next we

Friday Cat Blogging

Make sure you get my good side.



I resent being your photo-object, you know that right?



Skinny cat tries to camoflage herself by aligning with the floorboards.



Don't you wish you were as pretty as me?



More pictures. Rapture. How will I survive the excitement.

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