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Aaaaand it's Sunday
And I'm debating -- do I want to clean and write, or work on the baby quilt(s) I now owe to two new mothers and write ( Read more... ) -
Yeah, not a good start to the day
Always kind of embarrassing when you come in halfway through a meeting. A big, kind of major meeting. Luckily my liege is very understanding, and it was all over the phone anyway so it's not as if I ran into a conference room red-faced and breathless ( Read more... ) -
Still here
I am sorry about that, kittens -- I keep meaning to post stuff here and never do. Bad Mellie, no new laptop cooling board.
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Bleurgh
So Sunday night, I got a full 7 hours of sleep, maybe a little more, even -- went to bed around 9:30 PM, woke up Monday morning around 5:00 AM. And felt tired all the damn day long, although getting up at Oh My God It's Early meant I got into the office early, which meant I got to leave early so that was a plus ( Read more... ) -
Damn you, Glam Rock!
Ow ow ow. A friend put a link to Sweet's "Fox On The Run" video on his Facebook page earlier, and since I loved that song when I was a kid I decided to pull out the electric guitar and take a crack at it (and may I just say God bless Headjammer headphone practice amps?). As a result, I couldn't feel my left hand for a good few minutes afterwards, ( Read more... ) -
Sale!
Received an email with notice that I sold my PCID universe story "A Touch of Ginger" to the specfic antho THE LADIES OF TRADETOWN, coming out in 2011 from Norilana Books. This is cool on a number of levels -- I get to work with the delightful editor Lee Martindale, I share a TOC with some rocking writers (crazywritergirl, Helen McCarthy and Tracy S. Morris, among ( Read more... ) -
Aaaaand...done.
Finished the first draft of A Most Malicious Murder at a rather slender 70K, but that's okay -- I tend to write mainly dialogue through the first pass anyway, and leave the fleshing out of the scenes for the second draft. I figure I'll leave it to simmer this week while I devour more research materials, then start editing over the long weekend ( Read more... )
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