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June 29, 2014
Recent Reads: Pegasus
Somehow I missed Robin McKinley‘s PEGASUS when it came out in 2010. (Oh. 2010. I had a baby. That’s how I missed it. Heh. Anyway.)
I spent the first part of the book kind of feeling like I’d outgrown McKinley and that probably my 12 year old self would have died of the happies reading this book but that it (unlike Judith Tarr‘s magnificent LIVING IN THREES) wasn’t actually speaking to my 12 year old self.
I did notice, though, that it was…more like Damar…in its writing than…anything else I’d re...
June 27, 2014
death of a thousand paper cuts
So my strawberry jam didn’t set up, I got a new toy storage unit for Young Indiana and it didn’t have the screws with so I had to go back to town to get them (and then watched them open another identical unit to take the screws out of it, which helps me but compounds the problem), on the way home I stopped and got strawberries which then got crushed in the bottom of my backpack which is now coated with strawberry juice, it turns out the person I sent a sneak gift to moved since last time I go...
gchat problems
Does anybody have *any* idea why the in-mail Gchat would abruptly stop showing my online presence to someone? I accidentally turned the stupid hangouts on the other day and when I turned it off, my mom couldn’t see me online anymore, and still can’t. This morning she tried sending me another invite to chat and it started not even letting her see my chats when I talked to her–it wouldn’t pop a window up.
Now I’ve turned the stupid hangouts back on and if I chat her, she can see it, but she stil...
June 26, 2014
Joanne’s Story
So the postman knocks on the door and I’m all “postman, huh, weird, I wonder what he’s delivering, I’m not expecting anything,” and he hands me this thing that says “art” on the customs slip and I’m all like “art? art? i don’t think i ordered any art? what–oh, from Eleri? Oh, she must have seen something that made her think of me, how sweet of her,” all this while I’m opening the package, and I open it so I’m looking at the back and it says “Joanne’s Story” and I’m thinking “huh interesting”...
June 25, 2014
Recent Reads: The Great Way
As I may have mentioned in the past, one of the great advantages to my job is that I’m often offered the opportunity to read books early (and one of the disadvantages is that I don’t always have time). In this particular case, I got to read Harry Connolly‘s The Great Way trilogy a little while before the Kickstarter crew and then the world in general. And I was, to put it modestly, chewing at the bit for the chance.
It lived up to–I hesitate to even say expectations. I like Harry’s writing, so...
Shaman Rises SPOILERS thread
Okay, just in case people desperately need to discuss SHAMAN RISES, I’m starting a spoilers thread on my blog. I would ask people on G+ and Facebook, particularly, to pop over to either mizkit.com or mizkit at livejournal to discuss the book, because it’s much too easy to spoil people in FB/G+ comments.
I will summarily delete anything I regard as spoilery from G+ and FB comments, just in case.
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June 24, 2014
SHAMAN RISES!
Know what today is?
Today is the day SHAMAN RISES, last book of the Walker Papers, hits the shelves! Go forth! Buy! Enjoy! Weep!
Um. Well. Um. O.O
Seriously, I’m all big-eyed about this, because it’s the end of an era. I wrote URBAN SHAMAN in the year 2000, although it took me a while to do anything about it, but it means I’ve been working on this series for well over a decade, and to have the last book coming out…wow.
I hope you all like it. :)
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June 21, 2014
comics
My friend Maura McHugh‘s new Hellboy-universe comic Witchfinder launched this week. There was a signing today at the local comic shop, where I had the following conversation with a friend:
Him: Reading any good comics?
Me: I’m really reading more *about* comics than actual comics these days.
Him: Oh, you mean like academic journals?
Me: Un, no, I mean like Tumblr…
*laughs* Yes, well, at least I’m honest.
In other comics news, Leah sent my script back with ridiculously helpful commentary which amou...
June 18, 2014
scripting
Me: I have finished a comic script, the first in ages. If I am brave and smart, now I will send it to Leah Moore* for commentary.
Leah: Dooooooooooo eeet!
Me: But what if it’s AWFUL?
Leah: Then I shall post a gif of me frowning slightly and shaking my head very slowly!
*giggles helplessly* She felt it necessary to assure me that was a joke, after posting it. *laughs more* I love Leah. Funny, funny lady. :)
*leah has volunteered for this, i do not normally just send things to other professionals an...
June 16, 2014
five things make a post
I had things to post about when I opened this window, I swear. Now I’ve forgotten them all.
Well, anyway. Let’s see. There was an early showing of the second How To Train Your Dragon movie yesterday, and the first half of it was good. Ted says the second half was good too, but Young Indiana didn’t make it all the way through, so neither did I. :)
I did see (all of) Belle this weekend, and it was *wonderful*. Highly, highly recommended.
Working my way through Veronica Mars. I’m a little less th...
