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This probably isn’t rocket science to any of you…

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But since I started reading a lot of e-books, I stopped posting a lot of text fragments. It has taken me this long to figure out that I can highlight the good bit, hit SHARE, choose Twitter, and DM myself the frickin’ text I want without having to retype it.

So here, the successful experiment, from Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl:

I am not interested in being set up. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal.

I chose it because it’s like the humor, and because it reminds me of the state a friend was in some years ago. She’s engaged now, so ha!

As I rebuild this prose-collecting habit, you’ll be seeing more of these. With longer notes. In the meantime, happy weekend.

Free for the reading from @tordotcom: “Wild Things”

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A couple weeks ago I told you all that this novelette, which is set in the same universe as my books INDIGO SPRINGS and BLUE MAGIC, was available for pre-order at the usual big e-retailers. Today it’s officially out, and you can read it on the Tor site.

“Wild Things” takes place between the events of the two novels, but is mostly set here in British Columbia rather than in Oregon. It’s a little picture of the mystical outbreak as it plays out in Canada, in other words. Here’s the opening.

My swamp man wasn’t what you’d call a sexy beast, though I found his skin strangely beautiful. It was birch bark: tender, onion-thin, chalk white in color, with hints of almond and apricot. He was easily bruised, attracted lichens, and when he got too dry, he peeled.

And the thoroughly gorgeous Allen Williams cover:

A #BuffyRewatch link from a crazy busy Alyx

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Yesterday’s Buffy Rewatch is about “A New Man,” the S4 episode where Giles gets all demonic.

I am just back from Orycon and the pile of stuff to be dealt with is simply immense. But by day’s end if you’re waiting on an e-mail from me, you’ll have a reply. If you’re waiting for me to check your homework, it’ll be done. If you’re a pear sitting in my kitchen, you’ll be chopped and cooked to perfection. Mmm, pears.

I suspect you’re all watching politics on TV and I’m the furthest thing from your minds, so that’ll let me stealth in and catch up. U.S. friends, I am thinking of you.

Latest #BuffyRewatch, Orycon 34

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First, this week’s Buffy essay: “You say potato, I say Doomed!!”

I will be at Orycon this weekend, sitting on panels, connecting with people and celebrating the launch of M.K. Hobson’s thoroughly awesome THE WARLOCK’S CURSE. It’s a terrific convention, one of my favorites, and if you are around I’d love to see you.

I’ll be signing books on the Sunday, with so many other wonderful authors–list below!–at the Authorfest 6 at Powell’s Bookstore. Note: Ten percent of total proceeds will go to benefit the Beaverton Education Foundation.

Here we are:
Alma Alexander
Kevin James Breaux
Alyx Dellamonica
Ru Emerson
Mark Ferrari
Barb & J C Hendee
M K Hobson
Louise Marley
Michael Martin
Todd McCaffrey
Devon Monk
Peter Orullian
Shannon Page
J A Pitts
Phyllis Irene Radford
Deborah Ross
Ken Scholes
Mike Shepherd/Moscoe
Dave Smeds
Brent Weeks
Daniel Wilson
Matt Youngmark

Wild Things hits the Eeee! bookstores today

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My novelette “Wild Things” will be up on the Tor site soon where every any anybody can read it, but the eBook version is available for preorder today on the MacMillan site, on Amazon, on iBooks and at Google too. (All versions are DRM-free, and the prices aren’t identical so do shop around). Eee!

“Wild Things” is set in the same universe as my first novel, Indigo Springs, and its sequel, Blue Magic. Timewise, it happens between the events of the two novels, and it’s set here in the Lower Mainland of B.C. and in the wine country around Oliver and Osoyoos.

Here’s the cover:
wild things cover art

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…