Friday

Yay, Friday. I'm behind on everything, especially getting ready for the holidays. Partly it's because I've been doing some necessary house stuff when I'm not writing, like painting bathroom trim and a couple of doors, caulking the outside downstairs windows (the house was built in the late 60s and has been showing its age probably since the early 70s), and stuff like that. We had a minor issue with the garbage disposal clogging up but finding the directions to reset it plus using the plunger got it working again.

So I'm behind on answering comments and sending cards and presents, and right now we have an unornamented Christmas tree and one string of white lights in the living room. But the lights do look really good, they're actually my favorite part of this season.



I've got some books in the pool of prizes for the Worldbuilders Heifer International Fundraiser. They're pictured on that link and are 1) one of the hardcovers of Wheel of the Infinite with the beautiful Donato Giancola cover (shown above), a set of the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy (The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods), and a set of The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea. They're all autographed.

Worldbuilders raises tons of money in the SF/F community for Heifer International each year. You donate to be entered into the contest for hundreds of randomly drawn prizes of signed books and other cool stuff, or you can bid on individual cool items or things like manuscript or query package critiques. The main post telling how to donate is here, and the goal for this year is $500,000.