Random Stuff

Monday, Monday, Monday. We've had cold rain and temps around 35 but luckily no ice. I was feeling mostly crappy toward the end of the week and all weekend, but it's probably allergies. (It's still allergies.) I had two doctor's appointments last week so was really afraid I would get a virus or cold or something from someone in the waiting room, which is how I usually end up getting sick.

One of our goddaughters is in the middle of the application for vet school, so please send good vet-school-acceptance vibes.

I really really liked Agent Carter.

Broadchurch is on Netflix and I highly recommend it. Make sure you have eight hours or so free before you start watching the first episode. It moves fast, is very intense (but has no onscreen violence). It's about a small vacation town on the coast of the UK, where an eleven year old boy is found murdered on the beach. Alec Hardy (David Tennant), a recently arrived DI and Ellie (the DS who should have had his job) have to investigate the case, and the town is so small Ellie finds herself having to investigate her own friends and people she's known all her life. There's going to be a sequel series in March, but this first 8 episode series is a complete story. (ETA: I've just remembered, they do show the murder at the end, but that's about it, I think.)

I really really like the new cover for Stories of the Raksura II: the Dead City & the Dark Earth Below

There were some cool useful links for writers going around on Tumblr, and I added them to the Publishing Information Sites for Beginning Authors section on my web site, at the end of the Craft of Writing Section under "Handy Sites."

I think that's it. I'm at 93,700 words on the book I can't tell you about yet. I'm expecting it to be between 120,000-130,000 words total.