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…
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?
Last week’s went up as usual, but I didn’t manage to post links, because honestly, shoving all the furniture in the two bedrooms of our house made me OMG, Holy Crap, that tired. So this week’s essay is on “Something Blue” and it’s called “A Prelude to Spuffy.” And last week’s was, appropriately enough, the Thanksgiving episode, and I called it “You Made a Bear!”
I’m up to “The Initiative” in my BtVS rewatch.
In related news, I was on a Whedonites Assemble! panel this past weekend at VCon, and one of the Gentlemen showed up. His real name is Doug Jones and he wanted to thank all the fans for keeping him employed.
Tomorrow, as I’ve mentioned a dozen times already, should see the release of my novelette “Wild Things” into the, um, wild. Eeee! I am very excited.
photo by Kristy Boyce
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