RIP and WIP

I’m all done with copy edits on Rites of Spring (Break). The next time I see it, it will look like a book, not a manuscript. Which doesn’t mean the work is done, but first proofs are always so…. final-looking to me. According to a lot of book contracts (mine, certainly), after your book has [...]

Nothing to See Here

I’m so swamped. Hence the lack of blog. Because not only is there a ton of work-work to do, but my brother-in-law got Rock Band for Christmas, and that needs to be seen to as well. We’re quite the band, SB, SB’s brother, and I.
Just kidding. It’s mostly work. Interesting discovery of the day. Sometimes, [...]

What I’ve Been Up To

1. Spending QT with family and friends in for the holidays.2. Copy editing Rites of Spring (Break).3. Judging Golden Heart Entries.4. Preparing to Leave for Europe.5. Making my own petticoat, because the one at the store was highway robbery and I needed a petticoat for the masquerade ball. It turned out great!6. Rampant. Many Chapters.
What [...]

Are those hoofbeats on the roof?

May you all have very happy and killer unicorn-free holidays.

More on Chemistry

I am fascinated by yesterday’s comment thread. We were discussing chemistry, and the variety of the responses were so intriguing! Some people said they liked the idea of Andie from Pretty in Pink ending up with Duckie, but others thought Duckie was merely annoying and couldn’t picture it. Some people loved the idea of Buffy [...]

The Ninja Flu, and Veronica Ringwald-Mars

So I was minding my own business on Sunday night, when suddenly and with no warning whatsoever, I was attacked by the Ninja Flu. Within the space of two hours, my throat was completely closed up, I couldn’t speak, I was hacking up a lung, my sinuses were blocked, and I felt like someone had [...]

It Hurts to Laugh

So I spent way too long the other night reading a blog post with a comment thread that got totally out of hand on account of the fact that the blogger made a passing crack at a very popular author with legions of die hard fans. I found the thread especially amusing because any discussion [...]

New Year’s Eve

So this is what I’m doing on New Year’s Eve.
I’m so excited. This is one of our favorite bands, and when we usually see them, we’re in an Irish Pub somewhere, drinking Smithwicks out of a plastic cup and wearing jeans and t-shirts, so I’m super excited to see what a black-tie Scythian concert is [...]

You Want To Know What’s "Repulsive?"

This is Repulsive.
The fact that the Hillsborough County School Board (the county I went to high school in, I might add) could make such a comment, the fact that TBO.COm could then use that word to describe the book, and the fact that all those parents making comments at the end of the article could [...]

The Food to Come

So after posting about parapets yesterday, I had that Decembrist song “Infanta” in my head all day.
“And all across the parapets a multitude of coronets…”
Grrr… not exactly the music I was looking for. Though I do love that elephant trumpeting.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here, not least because the lobby of [...]