Freebie Jeebies!

Free while supplies last–not one, but two amazing bookmarks!  The first features Anne Cain’s luscious cover art for With Nine You Get Vanyr.  The second–distributed by the Scott County, MN, Office of Environmental...

A big shout out

To Jim Butcher on the broadcast premiere of The Dresden Files on the SciFi Channel.  WTG, Jim!  Major congratulations to you and Shannon–you’re an inspiration to us all.  Three cheers and a round of cyber-champagne for everybody at...

Bloody Awful!

I was minding my own business, reading “Tacky”, Charlaine Harris’s story in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, when a sensory memory I’d repressed for nearly 24 hours bit me on the nose.  Literally.  The smell of blood flooded my mind.  The air seemed to...

Thank you for voting!

The results aren’t final, but they’re still sweet.  With Nine You Get Vanyr made it to #2 in the 2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll.  WooHoo!  Somewhere out there qnotku is grinning her face off.  Thank you!

It’s not a bad habit. It’s an added feature.

Duzell, the amazing rescue cat, continues to surprise us.  In all the time we’ve known him, he’s exhibited only two bad habits.  He scratches one particular ottoman when he’s mad–which is kind of funny because he was declawed long...

Somebody out there likes the book

Enough to nominate With Nine You Get Vanyr for the 2006 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll.  If you’ve read the book and like it enough, please, vote for it.  I’ll make it easy with a link to the polling site.  🙂  But even if...

Freaky Warm

I know, I know.  Usually, this is the weekend I usually start to howl about the weather–how I hate cold, how I hate gray, how I hate wind, and how there aren’t enough kids with shovels for miles to dig out our driveway.  But it’s scary to...

Highlander/Harry Potter/Monty Python Crossover, Anyone?

That got your attention.  Mwahahahaha!  As I mentined a few posts ago, Samhain Publishing has established a blog for its writers.  Through no fault of the editor in charge, I snagged the Twelfth Night slot.  I was thrilled.  Twelfth Night...

Happy 2007!

Wishing everyone, myself included, a much better year than 2006.  May you and your loved ones stay healthy, happy and read lots and lots of good books.And blogs.  *g*  Don’t forget to check out the Samhain blog, live every day except...