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tolerance for blasphemies against nature an advantage
Currently wading through copy-edits for book six. They are depressing. (Especially when they point out how often I start a sentence with "But" or "And ( Read more... ) -
for some things I'm a poor audience
There ought to be a term for a second reading of books where there's an important revelation near the end, which casts a different light on multiple conversations and encounters when you actually know what's going on behind the scenes and what X really means when they say something or do something which you totally fail to mark as important the ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision comes but once a year
Well, watching it comes technically three times, I suppose, if you count both semifinals as well as the final. Which was Tuesday and Thursday this week - the semifinals, that is - and Saturday for the final ( Read more... ) -
Library book 6 - The Secret Chapter
... okay, so The Secret Chapter is now up on UK Amazon. Is it not pretty? -
Eastercon coming up
All - well, mostly - packed, and off to Eastercon tomorrow and over the weekend, and hoping that the tickle in my throat is the result of nice weather and a high pollen count rather than anything else ( Read more... ) -
the ankle so nice she fell on it twice
I apologise - it's been a few weeks. I've had my head down in edits (and in day job work, to be fair ( Read more... ) -
The eve of the new year
It's been . . . A mixed year. Yes, there have been fantastic things like _The Mortal Word_ being published, and planning for books 6-8, and Barcelona, and Florence, and a lot of other things that made me happy at the time. And yet there was also Brexit, and Trump (I consider him a worldwide minus), and issues that my friends had, and an office move ( Read more... ) -
jingle bells, jingle bells
Okay. Last-minute shopping done, bag mostly packed, train ticket purchased, first part of laundry done (on the principle of leave everything washed that needs washing), perishables mostly emptied from fridge, audiobook giveaway completed, electronics charging ( Read more... ) -
there came both winds and rain
Wandering round York in the rain today while doing my Christmas shopping and at the same time recovering from a cold was perhaps not the smartest thing I've ever done - except, in my defense, it hadn't been certain that it would rain (is it mitigation to plead that the weather forecast had actually suggested it might snow?) and that it's very hard ( Read more... ) -
some sales are good sales
Let's see if I can try to get back to better journalling habits ( Read more... )