Where did this Tuesday come from again?

Since committing to the Write-A-Thon, I’ve gotten to the 10K words mark on the new novel, and the official starting date for the Thon (and for Clarion West) is still about a week away. I started early because I have a couple travel obligations that will cost me a few days of writing time, and I wanted to get into the swing before the 18th in any case. It’s sort of like doing a warm-up lap.

In other news, the latest Buffy rewatch is up–it’s on “The Wish.”

Azure Dwarf has written a short review of Blue Magic, the gist of which is he likes it better than Indigo Springs.And… that may be it, this week.

Three links make a very short chain…

On the Buffy rewatch, I’m up to “Revelations.”

Second, J.A. Pitts says this about Indigo Springs and Blue Magic in a thoroughly lovely review:

This is a book about the real world and how magic affects those who deal with it. Everything has a cost. The story is in how each individual deals with it.

Finally, my Clarion West Write-A-Thon page and a question: how many of you would donate if it qualified you for a chance to name an island on the world of Stormwrack?

Bug Wars, Wars of Bug

I seem to have finally won a long, frustrating, anguish-inducing war against the hackers who kept slipping malware onto my site and trying to infect people with same as they came in to learn about my books. I had to bring in mercenaries: specifically, the fine folks at Sucuri Sitecheck, who run a service that scans your site for you for free, and another service that keeps it uninfested for $90 bucks a year. After weeks of flailing attempts at DIY and instructions from my site host that were so simple they required a computer programming degree to comprehend, and promises from same host that now the site really was clean, honest, when it just friggin’ wasn’t, Sucuri had me squared away within twelve hours.
Now that I’m not dumping my non-existent free time into fighting the malware wars, I have taken the advice of a couple extremely savvy friends (writer Matt Youngmark and artist Racheal Ashe, if you must know) and started a newsletter. The Join button is on my site and my plan is to issue chatty notes that you’ll all enjoy reading–the sort of stuff that goes into the letters I write, all too infrequently, to all the lovely peeps I aspire to keep up with. Plus, also, whatever photo I’ve taken lately that I’m most proud of, exclusive sneak peeks at works in progress, bragging about my UCLA students who’ve sold fiction and links to the latest courses and me stuff. Try out the join button or just let me know if you’re interested.
And when I get an issue out, if you think it’s missing something, let me know that, too.

Rambling on the Internet

If it’s Tuesday, Bring on the Buffy Rewatch: Became, Besaw, Beconquered!

Blue Magic Virtual Tour Stops
Last week, Edmonton’s Wayne Arthurson interviewed me for Gigcity. And Janni Simner asked me about my deep deep love for Vancouver, so I blogged about that very happily indeed.
Finally, Muppet asked a question about all the court proceedings in my fiction, so I wrote about that for the Women in SF&F Spotlight at the Fantasy Book Cafe.