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January 20, 2014
birthday day!
Today is my husband’s birthday, so I’m baking a German chocolate cake and we’re going out to dinner at a really good restaurant tonight. Mmmm. :)
I turned in the copy edits for SHAMAN RISES last night, which means the Walker Papers directory is one final edit pass from being moved into the Finished Projects folder. Pretty strange, after 14 years of working on them. Just, wow.
I note that the 28th of January is the 201st anniversary of the publication of PRIDE & PREJUDICE. This may be relevant t...
January 19, 2014
an unexpected gift
I’m doing copy edits, which is the least fun part of anything, on SHAMAN RISES. They’re actually very light this time; the only real issue is that the copy editor and I have a violent disagreement over the Oxford comma (I am pro; she is con).
Anyway, so I was reading along and suddenly something TOTALLY UNEXPECTED happened in the book!
And then something else TOTALLY UNEXPECTED happened! And–it kept happening! I had completely forgotten all of the revisions that I’d done last summer, and I was...
January 17, 2014
Kitsnaps: Golden Tree
Golden Tree
Golden Tree
I took a walk through the Botanic Gardens this morning, where the sunrise caught the light on a gold-leafed tree above the pond.
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January 16, 2014
Recent Reads: Lust for Life
LUST FOR LIFE is the fourth & final book in Jeri Smith-Ready’s WVMP Vampire Radio series. I have a conflicted relationship with these books; something happened in the 3rd book that I really did not want to happen, but I read the interstitial novella and book 4 because I wanted to see if Jeri (who is a friend of mine) did the only thing with the end of the series that I felt would justify the thing I really didn’t like.
The answer is that she sort of did, which means I’m not quite at the place...
January 15, 2014
Kitsnaps: Gray Wolf
Kitsnaps: Gray Wolf
Kitsnaps: Gray Wolf
Gray Wolf: the December picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar.
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& it’s off!
STONE’S THROE is off to Evil Hat, which means, barring edits on it and SHAMAN RISES (which are due Monday) I’m out of contract.
Normally this would be a terrifying time in a writer’s career, but I’ve got some irons in the fire; my Guildmaster Saga, the YA novels I’ve been working on, are being shopped around, and I’m looking at Patreon to do a MAGIC & MANNERS crowdfund. So those are cool things, and we’ll see how they go. Everything else is longer term (like, y’know, stuff I’m planning for Fe...
January 14, 2014
Kitsnaps: Red Panda
Kitsnaps: Red Panda
Kitsnaps: Red Panda
Red Panda: the November picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar.
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GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 5-8
Guys, I have totally not re-read the next four chapters. #embarrassed to death
However, just because I haven’t re-read them lately is no reason for other people to have to wait on discussing them, so I’m going to open up the comments (ideally on the mizkit.com site) for discussion for those of you who ARE keeping up. Spoil away, since I have, after all, *read* them, if not for some time. :)
I should, I hope, be back on track next week, but I’m doing revisions on a book that’s due tomorrow and...
commissioned short stories!
I have a burst of short story writing coming up, stuff I’ve owed people for some time, and along with it there’s a distinct possiblity I’m going to be offering up to five commissioned short stories for a fundraising campaign my sister will be running soon.
These stories will be about 3000-5000 words and can, within reason, be anything the patron wants: I’ll write in any of my established universes (albeit nothing with Walker Papers spoilers), or I’ll write something new; retold fairy tales, a...
