C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 191
March 17, 2010
an advisement re book contest
March 16, 2010
A New Book Up in Closed Circle: Lynn Abbey
Lynn's Daughter of the Bright Moon is now available for sale.
March 14, 2010
Deceiver now available for pre-order at Amazon, B/N
Just got my own first look at the cover (Barnes and Noble) and it's nice!
March 13, 2010
The koi pond is frothing a bit…
…and cold. But the temperature has not dropped due to turning on the pump. Which is good. We have a mixed bag of weather today…a few degrees colder air, but sun, which we didn't have yesterday; and when sun hits the black/dark liner, that tends to warm things up. Plus the pump contributes some heat. So…the forecast is to trend toward 60. The pond temp is about 45. Koi won't eat until about 52 ambient. I didn't want a general warming to throw the pond oxygen-poor, due to the nutrients in the w...
March 11, 2010
Ah, me, the life of a blog-mod…
I just deep-sixed about five members for having names like Ilostweightaskmehow and for using the entire alphabet in their usernames. The spamfilter I have only catches our honest members trying to provide links for legitimate purchases, but cheerfully allows viagraseller and internetinfofast to join our merry crew. Honestly, would YOU ingest a pill shipped from whoknowswhere and consisting of whoknowswhat? That's more adventurous than anybody ought to be.
On the other hand, we have nearly 800 ...
March 10, 2010
Feeling a bit better today…behind on everything, but gaining on it.
Reading the current manuscript on the trip—as I did, now and again—persuaded me I have to do a fast re-edit. This is the book I was working on when my mother passed away. I dropped a few stitches, as you might imagine, so I am going to do the things it needs. For some reason I feel less harried now that I have CC as an outlet and Wave as a place to be able to explain things—and things have leapt into focus, items that I want to fix before I send it out. I like this book. It's odd, in some...
March 9, 2010
Son of the Convention Crud…
Glug. No nicer than the RadCon Convention Crud. The best prescription tends to be Benedryl plus Sudafed and Advil. I've tried everything else, but this at least lets me breathe. I'm grumpy when I can't breathe. I can tolerate a headache, but breathing is my basic requirement.
Jane's bravely gone off to the store, doing just a shade better than I am, but I'm worried that she's coming down with it. We had to bow out of a filksing this Saturday.
On a positive note, we're going to turn on the pond ...
March 8, 2010
The route we followed…on the Grand Tour.
We left Spokane WA at about 6:30 am on Wednesday, having delayed a day to let a snowstorm roll over our route. My philosophy is 'chase the weather, don't run from it,' because it will give you spectacular camera fodder.
We drove to the Tricities (Pasco/Richland/Kennewick) and crossed the Columbia, drove to Pendleton, La Grande, and on down to McDermitt—it was dark by then, because we'd stopped for an hour in Pendleton and gotten lost after La Grande and had to backtrack. Cyber Sally needs an u...
March 7, 2010
We're Baaaack…..
Beautiful drive. Jane will have pix…
Snow on all the mountains. We collected rocks from Oregon, Nevada, Eastern California, Donner Pass (CA) and had an absolutely spectacular convention (ConDor in San Diego, CA), in which we were royally treated. I have returned with version 2 of the convention crud, but suspect it's actually from Jane's sister-in-law, who hosted us for 3 days on our visit to San Francisco. She gave us a beautiful bonsai, and Jane had already bought one from a roadside stand, ...
February 23, 2010
I am thinking… [this takes effort, friends]…of a new offering…
I've been doing a simple sword and sorcery story that's kind of sprawling beyond its original intent. Which I don't have time to finish soon-ish.
I am thinking about selling it in pieces—installments, before it's finished. That way…once it is finished, it goes up as a New Book. But until then, I might sell it sort of 10,000 words at a go. With a special area on my blog where people can speculate about where it's going, what they want to see happen—I thought it might be fun. Nothing too heavy, ...
