Lynn Kurland’s Star of the Morning

When Patty Briggs was kind enough to cite Lynn Kurland in her blurb for With Nine You Get Vanyr, I was flattered.  I loved Lynn’s RITA-awardwinning novella “To Kiss in the Shadows” and interviewed her for Crescent Blues based on the strength of...

Suddenly Christmas

Could’ve knocked me over with a feather.  Suddenly, in the last nine days to the Big Red-n-Green, I’ll be going to two (possibly three) holiday parties–not including an invite for self, spouse and the maternal unit for Christmas...

Techno-Dummy Needs Help…Again

I give up.  Memes hate me.  You’d think it would be easy.  Enter the required information into the generator, paste the resulting text into the LJ, and presto, funny pictures, fractured holiday songs.  In a word: Fun!But noooooo.  I...

What’s the required apology time…

…for taking the cat to the dentist?  The Duz went to the vet’s for a routine tooth cleaning and wound up getting an extraction.  He had an abcess, and he’s such a sweetie, neither I nor the vet even guessed.  There are always surprises...

Today’s Winner

Since 50 percent of the book is dedicated to him, I thought it only fitting to let my dh pick the winner of the very first WardSmith contest.  And he did.  A download of With Nine You Get Vanyr is winging its way through cyberspace to Tehya.  Three BPAL...

We have achieved web site!

And it took us long enough too.  LOLAs SJ and I were working to the wire on the WardSmith web site November 7, we noticed something that scared the bejeebers out of us.  The updates SJ posted were only intermittently going live.  Then they vanished...

It’s Here!

Tonight’s the big night!  The electronic version of With Nine You Get Vanyr is now available for download from Samhain Publishing.  There are so many people I need to thank.  My husband Greg and Teri’s husband SJ for never...

How do you say goodbye to your best friend?

  Hail to thee, blithe spirit!Bird thou never wert–That from heaven or near itPourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art.Higher still and higherFrom the earth thou springest,Like a cloud of fire;The blue deep thou wingest,And singing...

Light a Candle

If you have any good thoughts, healing wishes, prayers, juju or anything else that might help, please, send it to Bethesda, MD, today.  qnotku suffered a major heart attack while on the road to a pre-surgical seminar early Sunday evening.  (Yeah, the irony...

Halloween Party Meme

Gakked from Ellen_Kushner.  I think she’ll like the results better than the party where she’s dressed in pink.  LOL<lj user=”jmward14″>’s Halloween party: <br><br><lj-raw><B>agentobscura</B>...