He’s been having increasing computer woes for months. The new machine he built in June has had problems since the beginning and has now gone through 3 mother boards and 2Gb of additional RAM before it threw a silicon shoe and came up totally lame today. (His screams of frustration as it has [...]
Archive for December, 2008
My husband is morose….
Posted in Personal blither, computer stuff on December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One More Thing….
Posted in Stuff about the book(s), contests and give-aways on December 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I did get a Christmas present of sorts: author copies of Mean Streets arrived on Dec 23. I shall put my horrid mind to some way to tease you guys into doing silly things to get them. Bwahahaha….
Christmas, Christmas… will be late
Posted in Personal blither, tagged Christmas on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After our fun adventure in shopping yesterday during the lull in the weather, we realized it was two days to Christmas and we’d done nothing and now had no time to do anything. Or at least not much. Make that nothing, since we paused for hamburgers at a place we usually love but [...]
Working, working….
Posted in Personal blither on December 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I know I’m the world’s most boring blogger. I just don’t want to say anything that’s going to spoil the book in progress or upset my agent/editor or piss off my husband or… whatever. And I’m snowed in, snowed under, and generally busy as the proverbial one-armed paperhanger in an earthquake. But [...]
White Pre-Christmas
Posted in Conventions and signings, Personal blither, Silliness on December 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Look what happened last night at the marina!
(click on the image to see it large.)
Yup, it snowed like the Dickens. About 6 inches, but it’s hard to tell for sure. There was already some snow from Thursday. We went out on Friday to shop for food, propane, and other necessities of being [...]
A Merry Christmas for Mean Streets
Posted in Conventions and signings, Cool writerly people, Stuff about the book(s), audio, braille, other people's books on December 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Yay! First I have to say "I love Kimberly Swan." Yes I do. She always seems to to say nice things about my books. (I do not know her nor do I pay her, so that’s very cool.) She’s the first non-Harriet to post a review of Mean Streets the [...]
B-fuckin-rrrr!
Posted in Personal blither, Writing, rant on December 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
It’s bloody cold in here! It snowed on Saturday. Snowed! In Seattle! This rarely happens and when it does it usually results in a short term freak out, slush, and then a bit of mud, nostalgia and an increase in sales of tire-chains, rock salt, and charcoal briquettes. I don’t [...]
Knee-Deep in Reindeer Guts
Posted in Kat Litter, Silliness on December 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Best. Christmas. Present. EVER! Someone likes my short story from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe: They Call Me the Oracle!: Knee-Deep in Reindeer Guts.
Yes, I have a “thing” about venison and reindeer…. I am a baaaaad person…
But at least I’m giggling and now… back to work!
Free Books!
Posted in Cool writerly people, contests and give-aways on December 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Who doesn’t need free books for Christmas, hm? Robert Thompson at Fantasy Book Critic is giving away three sets of Simon R. Green’s “Just Another Judgement Day” and “Mean Streets” by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Tom Sniegoski and me! Neat stuff, eh? So go look at see how you can win [...]
Werewolf Contest Winners!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
OK, this was incredibly difficult because all the entries were good and very funny. But since I get to be totally subjective and pick the ones I liked the very best, these are they. If you won, even if you sent me your address, please write again and tell me to whom you [...]
Gothic Redux!
Posted in Cool writerly people on December 2, 2008 | Comments Off
Holy “Had I but known”! Mrs. Radcliffe rides again! If you’re a fan of Regency romances, gothic fiction, Jane Austen, or early forms of mystery fiction you may already be aware of Ann Radclifef–Mrs. Radcliffe as she was known at the time. Mrs. Radcliffe was a purveyor of what was swiftly labeled [...]
Contest Reminder
Posted in contests and give-aways on December 2, 2008 | Comments Off
Entries in the “Ten Reasons Werewolves are Better Than…” contest must be in by midnight PST tonight (that’s 08:00 GMT on Wednesday morning if you’re in Britain.) Send your lists to kat(dot)rchrdsn[at]gmail(dot)com and win a personalized copy of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and a limited edition (ony 100 were made and only 7 have [...]
