Today – and the next few days – will be given over to the page proofs for SILVER ON THE ROAD. As seen via a series of tweets: I can’t be the only writer who, when faced w/ page proofs, finds it uncomfortable/difficult to read even a beloved book One More Time? Y/N? 2nd-guessing foreign […]
Status report: busy, not-melting Read More »
One short story has been handed in, awaiting editor’s response, one short story under sail – or would be, if there was any wind – and one novel due in 15 days and we’re going to make it, one way or another, by dog. And a client manuscript on the desk, and another one on
State of the Meerkat: Alive, mostly, kinda Read More »
A still, humid morning. I’d welcome a raging thunderstorm, if it would get the air moving a little bit… These are the days I find it hardest to work in: when the air is thick and heavy and anticipation is shivering just under the skin for something to HAPPEN and it never does…at that point
Yesterday’s bounty: 2K new words on the mystery, and a revelation in the backbrain about revisions to be done on the fantasy, plus some long-range promo work done for DEAD MAN’S HAND which you can get your own hands on in 12 days…. and I declutterd the office, which after three days of rain was starting to remind me
this fog will never lift it will always be like rain Read More »
Hah! Work of Hunters/An Interrupted Cry is 51% funded! You know what that means, don’t you? It means I can let myself start writing the first draft. I mean, as soon as I get everything else off my plate.  *drinks more coffee* (51% doesn’t guarantee that the project WILL fund. But it’s where the reins on my story-impatience
Today involved me hauling downtown for a Sekrit Business Meeting (it went well, thanks), and then hauling back home again before the storm AKA Nemo turned to full-on snow. We won’t get hammered the way southern NE will, but da Bronx looks to be taking its fair share. Earlier today there was a beagle doing
Friday’s Finding Nemo Read More »
Mood index: hot RT @annenbcnews: Today is now the 2nd hottest day in NYC history. 104 degrees at 3pm. I have nothing more to say. Except, *melt*. Also, my trip to DragonCon may be in danger of cancellation for reasons totally out of my control, damn it. Everyone clap your hands and say “let the