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Adding to the To Do List
Clean the house -- in particular, pick up little titchy things that kittens like to nibble ( Read more... ) -
But wait -- there's more!
My short story "A Touch of Ginger" is now in the specfic anthology The Ladies of Trade Town (ed. Lee Martindale, HarpHaven Publishing), on sale here for the low, low price of $16.50. Did I mention that I did the cover art, as well?
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Hello, pumpkins!
Sorry for the lack of posting, but I've been a seriously busy camper for the last couple of months -- I really do need to be better about regular updates, however ( Read more... ) -
SCORE!
So the Bodacious Brit wanted to see the next-to-last shuttle launch. Since I handle all the travel arrangements, I hopped online and duly booked hotel, car and flights for us through Travelocity. Two hours after I do this, NASA announces that they're moving the launch back ten days. Damn spit dirty socks ( Read more... ) -
Yay for Zazzle!
After consulting with Madame Editrix, I've opened a Zazzle store where interested folks can get the cover art for THE LADIES OF TRADE TOWN on t-shirts, mugs, mousepads and so much more (aka when people say, "Gosh, Mel, it would be really cool if you put the artwork on X..."). I'll also be using it to sell my other original designs and to promote ( Read more... ) -
Can someone clone me, please?
Okay, this is my schedule for the next few months:
April: Make three Sherlock plushies for a fundraiser gala being thrown on behalf of the Undershaw Preservation Trust; due by May 1 ( Read more... ) -
Yes, Virginia, sometimes Macs go boom, too...
Okay, so, a couple of weeks ago my iMac slowed down to the speed of a drunken dingo. After much research, faffing about with recovery apps and such, the Bodacious Brit and I determined that the hard drive was probably on its way out (the iMac was showing bad block sectors, and I've been hammering that puppy with big-ass graphic and sounds files ( Read more... ) -
The temperature is WHAT?
Okay, so we're not as badly hit here in the Clavicle of Texas as y'all are up north, but still, we're not used to temps of 15° F (with a wind chill of 6° F and that's at 7:30 PM -- they're predicting lows of 11°F with wind chills of -4° F tonight. I'm having flashbacks to my dad's funeral -- brrrr ( Read more... )