My novelette “Wild Things
“Wild Things” is set in the same universe as my first novel, Indigo Springs
Here’s the cover:
Here’s what Tor says about it:
Ah, love. A many splendored thing. Here is a rather unusual love story, sweet and strange as could only happen in the post-magical reality of the Indigo Springs “event.” Read More…
Sometimes I can get through a book without ever having to print up a manuscript and make hard notes. Not so with the current book, though. I’ve run it off, divided it into five separate hundred-ish page segments, and am most of the way through a pink pen edit. This is not a sekrit publishing technical term. It just means that the next edit will be a green or blue or possibly orange pen edit. I am hoping to only read it this way twice, as the story came together pretty delightfully once the scribbling commenced.
And speaking of delightful, I am now about 70% of the way through my shiny advance copy of M.K. Hobson’s heartrending steampunk novel The Warlock’s Curse
You loved “Hush.” I loved “Hush.” When Kelly and I rented a local theater in Vancouver for a showing of “Once More with Feeling,” “Hush” was the episode we watched as a preview. It is, I am certain, the S4 episode I’ve seen the most times. And here’s what I said about it.
And, by the way, it includes a handy sample of the tweets we’d be seeing from the Scoobies if the Gentlemen hit Sunnydale today. And it wasn’t a smoking crater.
I read Between Two Fires
The link to my Tor.com review of the novel is here.
The rest of this year’s reading list, so far…
2012 BOOKS
1. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2. Among Others, by Jo Walton
3. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, by Simon Winchester
4. Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter
5. Kat, Incorrigible (Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson), by Stephanie Burgis
6. Remote, by Donn Cortez
7.The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet
8. one awesome draft novel by a dear friend
9. Property of a Lady, by Sarah Rayne
10. Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton
11. Black Blade Blues, by J.A. Pitt
12. Redshirts, by John Scalzi
13. Broken Harbour, by Tana French
14. Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
15. Are you My Mother? By Alison Bechdel
16. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
17. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
18. Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
19. On Conan Doyle or The Whole Art of Storytelling, by Michael Dirda
20. Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg
21. Between two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman
22. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
23. (Reading now!) The Warlock’s Curse, by M.K. Hobson
Short Stories
“Men Who Would Drown,” by Elizabeth Fama
“Six Months, Three Days,” by Charlie Jane Anders
“Nell,” by Karen Hesse (http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/09/nell)
Rereads
Faithful Place, by Tana French
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
And it’s complicated.
LJ used to be the go-to site for my blog and it was where I kept up with a core of my most beloved friends. It was also, at one time, a bustling hive of delightful writer activity. I’m not the first to have noted that it seems to be a bit of a ghost town now, but I still have a glance at my friends list once or twice a day. I start with the short filter of peeps I know and love well, in case they’ve posted. Mostly they haven’t. Then I hit “Friends” and see what everyone else is up to.
The reverse seems to be true, too. There are at least one or two people who still look for me there, and so my posts, which now originate in WordPress from my official site, get exported there. Comments happen. Conversations still occur… they’re just quicker, quieter, and shorter. The party is smaller.
Times change, services get less effective, and people move on. I miss being able to one-click my way to an update on everyone’s life–because hey, that was damned convenient for me!–but I do understand the why.
But I’m curious. Are you still reading LJ these days, if you ever were? Is there anything you’d have me change about my presence there. . . do you want a daily feed of my tweets, for example?
