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February 4, 2014
GGK Book Club: The Wandering Fire, ch 1-4
Oh, God, so many things I’d forgotten that come back with a single sentence…
After the harrowing final chapter of THE SUMMER TREE, it actually came as a shock to me that Jennifer is pregnant in the opening chapters of WANDERING FIRE. That whole storyline tumbled right back into place (and, indeed, I was somewhat surprised I’d forgotten its inception, since there are characters in the Walker Papers who owe heavy, deliberate homage to that storyline), but I was still completely surprised that Pa...
February 2, 2014
Inheritors’ Cycle update
Further to this post, I have some things to report about the Inheritors’ Cycle.
Not irregularly, people ask me if I’ll be doing more of them. I’ve been seriously considering pursuing that, but I just got royalty statements on them, and it’s clear that unless I could be absolutely certain of getting the books into bookstores, it would be a waste of my time. THE QUEEN’S BASTARD has sold about 1800 copies in e-book and THE PRETENDER’S CROWN has sold about 1000. Assuming that at the best I’d match...
GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 13-16
Dammit, I knew I was going to be bad at this, which was why my basic intention was to read the books all at once and set up posts ahead of time with my commentary to autopost on the appropriate days. Life, however, hasn’t been enormously accommodating in that regard (February will, I swear, be better), and obviously I haven’t been very good at getting things posted. I did finish *reading* SUMMER TREE, but oi,
We’ll be starting THE WANDERING FIRE this week, with chapters 1-4 up on Tuesday. Or...
January 31, 2014
Review: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
We went and saw a stage production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers on Wednesday, and the live simulcast of Tom Hiddleston in Corolianus last night. I’m going to wait to post my review of Corolianus because I know several people in America who are going to go see it in the next couple weeks and I don’t want to spoil any of the production stuff for them, and suspect they’d click through the spoiler cut so just won’t post it. Hah. :)
Seven Brides, however, I shall review:
Seven Brides would ha...
January 28, 2014
Magic & Manners: Chapter Four
In celebration of the 201st anniversary of PRIDE & PREJUDICE’s publication, I humbly submit for your reading pleasure the fourth chapter of MAGIC & MANNERS.
Yeah, okay, so I was going to do this as a crowdfund, and I got the project page all ready, and I was going to launch it last night and I had a terrible spasm of “maybe this isn’t a good idea.” So I delayed the launch, and this morning I’m more able to interpret the spasm as “push that button and this becomes work,” which…takes the fun awa...
January 27, 2014
I need a secretary. @.@
Or more hours in a day that are not already spoken for. Or a to-do list so exhaustive I cannot fail to do each tiny step on it (yes, yes, Carl: I’ve read GETTING THINGS DONE :)), except I need either the time or the secretary to create the exhaustive to-do list, so…a secretary would be nice.
This has been an extremely busy month: I’ve written 42K, which has involved finishing STONE’S THROE, copy edits on SHAMAN RISES, and writing more on MAGIC & MANNERS. There have been 3 birthday parties. I h...
January 24, 2014
GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 9-12
The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay
You know how you have those days where you’re sure that you’ll manage to have time to do that thing so you don’t let people know that you’re not doing it that day because you’re going to have time even if it’s at the last minute, and then it’s three days later and you haven’t done it because you kept being sure you’d have time and
Yes, I thought you were familiar with that. This is why the post for chapters 9-12 is so late. I’ve c...
January 23, 2014
Kitsnaps: St Coleman’s Cathedral
St Colman’s Cathedral
St Colman’s Cathedral
St Colman’s Cathedral and the town centre in Cobh. Apparently it was a Cobh week for my Kitsnaps files. :)
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storytelling son
Poor Young Indiana has an ear infection, so I was snuggling with him last night he suddenly pressed up and proclaimed, “When magic begins!” Then he snuggled back down, saying, “A story about when magic begins afwwfl s fllfh sllghh,” and went back to sleep, leaving me lying there going, “NO, WAIT, STOP, I WANT TO HEAR THIS ONE!!!”
This morning, hopefully, I asked him if he could tell me a story about when magic begins, but he just laughed at me. :)
He got about 8 hours of sleep last night and I...
January 22, 2014
Kitsnaps: Blue Boat
Blue Boat
Blue Boat
Blue boat out on Cobh Harbour, which is one of the prettiest places I’ve been in Ireland.
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