Posted in contests and give-aways on November 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ah yes, my dears. Time for a holiday contest! I have 3 “wolfy baubles” left from the Wolfsbane and Mistletoe promotion that need homes.
(Don’t worry: they’re acryclic so they travel just fine and are damn-near unbreakable.)
So I propose this:
I shall pick the three best lists of “Ten Reasons Werewolves are Better Than…” whatever [...]
Posted in Personal blither, ferrets on November 26, 2008 | Comments Off
All right, who made me ferret-slave?
Not only does the ferret’s medication and feeding schedule rule my life at the moment, but he’s now decided that the only way he’ll eat the perfectly nummy ferret kibbles he used to gobble with alacrity is if I carefully hand-feed him the kibbles one piece at a time. [...]
Posted in Stuff about the book(s), Writing on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The fine folks at Amazon have already listed my next book, Vanished: A Greywalker Novel, for preorder. And they seem to know something I don’t: how long it’s going to be. This leads me to believe they have a time machine and if so, I’d like to borrow it and get my own [...]
Posted in Cool writerly people, MWA, Personal blither, Writing, sfwa, tagged libraries on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was recently reminded through the MWA that back in June there was a lot of flooding in Iowa, as some of you may recall. In the rising water, one of the things that was lost was the A-rated Central Library of the city of Cedar Rapids. The building’s still there, but it’s [...]
Posted in Personal blither, family crap, tagged shopping on November 20, 2008 | Comments Off
While I struggle to write a critique for a friend–the problem is not that the book is bad, but that it’s very good under a bad start, which is among the happiest circumstances of critiquing, but often hard to break down in a useful way–I have to start considering what to get my mom for [...]
Posted in Book reviews news and 'zines, Stuff about the book(s), tagged huh? on November 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The first review of Mean Streets is out from the ubiquitous Harriet Klausner.
I have to admit, this is the oddest review I’ve ever gotten and I’m really not sure what she meant to say about mine. I do have spoil this and say that Harper is neither raging, vengeful, nor late. [...]
Posted in Personal blither on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I feel a little sad because it’s Veterans Day–used to be Armistice Day–and even though it’s not the anniversary, it was the first day nineteen years ago that I really “got” that my father had died a few days before. I really miss him.
He was an Air Force vet from the Korean War [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Tonight is the tenth anniversary of Third Place books in Lake Forest Park! I have been out of town this weekend and kept trying to remember what I had going on Monday when I got back… Well this is it! Eep!
Food, Drinks, Cake, Authors, Booksellers! 7 p.m. at the Third Place Books [...]
Posted in Cool writerly people, tagged obit on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok yeah… I know we’re all jumping around like beans over the election, but while we were holding our breathes over politics-as-unusual–Holy Shit!–Michael Chrichton died! WTF? At 66? Los Angeles is full of disasters isn’t it? First Prop 8 passed, now the original king of technothrillers is dead in that [...]
Posted in Writing on November 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I don’t actually have a point here, I’m just thinking, and feel free to chime in and argue with me if you want….
A while ago I got an email from a fan who, just in passing, referred to my protagonist as “a beautiful woman.” This threw me a little because I’ve never described Harper [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was not expecting this, but yesterday I got a treat from my publisher: ARCs of MEAN STREETS.
Alas, only 3 and they are all committed already, but it makes me smile.
So, in honor of the honor, I’ve included an excerpt of my story from the collection, “The Third Death of the Little Clay Dog”–it’s even [...]
