Monthly Archives: April 2008
Stuff You Must Have
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 … Continue reading
I Wish to Return This Head….
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 … Continue reading
The Last of the Guest Blog
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 … Continue reading
So Very Busy!
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 … Continue reading
Again With the Pengui-Blog
“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. … Continue reading
Many Conga-rats!
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 … Continue reading
Pengui-blog #2
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!
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. … Continue reading
First Pengui-blog Post
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 … Continue reading
Penguin Blogging
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 … Continue reading
Bass-Ackward
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 … Continue reading