Fell down on the job yesterday. Neglected to note Gia Dawn’s post on the endlessly fascinating subject of what’s hot and what’s not, explored from both readers’ and writers’ perspectives. Fortunately, you can still check...
Three cons and two book signings in two weeks. Yes, I’m crazy. You had to ask?Not only that, I’m crazy enough to post about all three. With pics! (At last, you say.) Technically, RavenCon, Richmond VA’s very new science...
Yes, I know, I owe you all the infamous Strawberry Pic, not to mention my long-delayed con reports. I meant to post them too. But there was a slight change in the schedule at Samhain’s Fantasy & Enchantment Blog. I found myself up at...
This might not seem like a big deal, since With Nine You Get Vanyr has been in print since February, but actual bookstore sightings have been few and far between. But the Pentagon Centre Borders persevered and, thanks to Samhain’s new relationship with...
RavenCon was a wonderful, wonderful con. Big thanks to Jana Oliver and Tee Morris for letting me play in their sandbox. Ditto for the con organizers who did such a superb job. RavenCon is turning into the little con that could, growing from 450 to...
Congratulations, yourstrulee and sweetchibihentai! You’re the grand prize winner and runner-up, respectively, in WardSmith.com’s first contest of 2007. Yourstrulee will receive the crystal egg (suitable for containing wishes or...
At long last the revised version of Highway from Hell is done. All except for two small descriptive paragraphs I’ve decided to change tomorrow–er, later today. I plan to let it sit while I finish a copyediting job to die for (another Kate...
Very briefly–to remind everyone it’s Thursday Thirteen over at the Fantasy & Enchantment Blog. Today it’s fantasy names, and as a bonus, you’ll find introductions to writers Dayna Hart and Melissa Lopez.Yeah, I need to become a more...
That pic of the Japanese maple on our deck wasn’t taken last fall. It was taken twenty minutes ago. If you squint hard enough you can even see the budding azalea budding behind the fence at the far right.Told Greg it was his fault for getting...
Sending a big thank you with smoochies to Store Manager Tracy McPeck, her colleagues Stephen and Susan, and all the staff of the Landmark Mall Waldenbooks in Alexandria, VA. The Landmark Waldens’ is my neighborhood bookstore. ...
