Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to announce that I have signed a contract with Egmont USA for my novel The Demon Catchers of Milan and its sequel.  In other words, WOOHOO!  I have a book deal!!!

So I haven't posted since September, and besides bein' married for over a year there's a bunch of other stuff I should write about.

Instead, I am going to celebrate the arrival of the First Tomatoes from our garden with this recipe:

1. Chop and throw in a bowl:
     Tomatoes
     Basil leaves
     Bread ends
     Cheese ends
     A bit of garlic or green ( Read more... )

...And we are back home in Madison, slowly returning to work rhythms.  I very much want to write all about the wedding and direct friends to photo pages etc., but first things first--let me get the novel rewrite and queries out of the way.

Big big hugs!

More soon; hands hurt--more hugs though.

Kat

I know I only touched on my mom's illness in the last post, but I'm crying plenty.  It's just hard to post that, y'know--"Day 23. Bawled my heart out again."  But more than one of the good folk who read this blog have experienced a grief of this kind, and worse, so you know what's going down ( Read more... )

So, the bad news first.  I haven't posted about this here yet, but here we go: my mother has metastatic kidney cancer ( Read more... )

I had an illuminating conversation with a young transgendered fellow up in the Con Suite just now.  I had no idea that testosterone was the biggest obstacle to changing from male to female--that its strong influence can keep a new-made woman from "passing" as one.  I messed up the pronoun on Friday with someone who may not realize that she didn't ( Read more... )

Full of ideas; couldn't sleep well because of new light on the novel and new stories, mostly shed by contact with other minds.

Also coming up with other ideas--at the "real multiculturalism" panel I began to wonder not only about where to start educating myself about sf/f authors of color, but where to find out about fandom around the world.  I am ( Read more... )

LJ tells me my last post was 15 weeks ago.  Silly blogger, post more!  So much has happened, but let's put that to one side for the moment--I'm at WisCon, glad to see the folks that could make it in these iffy-money times.  I've done my panel (only one, thank heaven and earth, though I love them), "The Story in the Object, the Object in the Story ( Read more... )

I have the icky cold that's whacking Mad Town this week. Yesterday I was mourning the work I hadn't done ( Read more... )