OK, yeah… they aren’t my publisher, but they are my beloved friend Cherie Priest’s publisher and they are giving Cool Books Away for Free! Want neato-keen Tor stuff including an electronic copy of Cherie’s fab first novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds, fabulous computer wallpaper (like incredible Boris Vallejo designs!), other peachy-cool stuff? Then haul [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Stuff You Must Have
Posted in other people's books on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I Wish to Return This Head….
Posted in Personal blither, Writing on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Flargh… I got through the revision of the front 19,000 words, which then had become 21,500. Go me. But today is “start writing new bits day” and I have… yes, The Headache.
The Sinus Headache is my bane. Damn those fluffy bits of bone in my skull. When we have [...]
The Last of the Guest Blog
Posted in Kat Litter, Personal blither, Stuff about the book(s), Writing, guest blogging on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today is my last day blogging for Penguin. Here’s the beginning of the final Kat-Blog (click the excerpt to read the whole thing):
“Where do you get your ideas?” There’s a question many writers dread. Not because they order them wholesale from a warehouse in Schenectady, as a famous SF writer once quipped, but because [...]
So Very Busy!
Posted in Personal blither, Stuff about the book(s), Writing, guest blogging on April 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Good heavens I’ve been busy the past 24 hours! Lemme see:
Ran an errand for the fabulous Richelle while she’s out of town–props to Express Mail and Ballard mail-guru, Guy (that’s his name, not his variety.)
Took ferrets to the vet and discovered all sorts of little problems that need meds–many thanks to the incredible staff [...]
Again With the Pengui-Blog
Posted in Personal blither, Writing, guest blogging on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“There is a saying that if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Which is very embarassing if you’re the parent of a small child with a plastic duck bill squeaker. If the child in question were a book, he’d be relegated to the “duck” shelves [...]
Many Conga-rats!
Posted in Cool writerly people, tagged other people's books on April 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Holy Macaroni! Three of my friends on NYT Bestseller lists this week (that I know of)! Congratulations to Jim Butcher (Hardcover #5), Richelle Mead (Children’s Chapter paperbacks #7) and Pat Rothfuss (mass-market paperback #11–nearly tied with The Other Bolyen Girl for #10)! Such fabulousity!
Pengui-blog #2
Posted in Kat Litter, Writing, guest blogging on April 22, 2008 | Comments Off
A couple of my writer friends really hate used bookstores. Some of them even hate libraries….
And so begins my second day blogging at the Roc/Ace blog. Read the whole entry, if you can stand it.
Happy Ferretness!
Posted in Personal blither, tagged ferrets on April 21, 2008 | Comments Off
I’m so pleased to discover that the cause of California Ferret Legalization now has a non-profit-status education group ready to go do the sort of work LegalizeFerrets.org and Ferrets Anonymous have been trying to get rolling for a while now. Now I can give them money without having to argue with the tax-monster about [...]
First Pengui-blog Post
Posted in Kat Litter, Personal blither, Stuff about the book(s), tagged guest blogging on April 21, 2008 | Comments Off
Thus begins my first guest-blogger post at the Roc/Ace SFF blog:
I never would have expected it, but the most common question I get about Harper’s world is “why doesn’t she have a cell phone in Greywalker?”
To read the whole thing, go here.
Penguin Blogging
Posted in Just Plain Weird, Personal blither, Stuff about the book(s), Writing, guest blogging on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No, this is not a plug for the Linux operating system. Just a note that I’ll be the guest blogger at Penguin’s Roc/Ace SFF blog all next week. And since I take the blogging so very seriously–as you know–I’m writing up my fabulous bloggeries right now! Be sure to check ‘em out!
Recent Reading
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged other people's books on April 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Has been updated.
Bass-Ackward
Posted in Personal blither, Writing on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Leave it to me to be all bass-ackward and roundabout with stuff. I’ve been struggling with a revision to the novella. I have the ideas and bits, but it just wasn’t happening. I thought since I was so close to done, I should finish up the word count with the ending I wanted, [...]
