Monday, August 16, 2010
Dragon Con Schedule
My Dragon Con schedule: I may try for a second signing, but right now this is it. I will be at the kilt blowings on Saturday and Sunday night that Jennie Breeden of “The Devil’s Panties” is hosting, but that will be for fun and frolic. It’s D*Con there should be fun and frolic. An on-line discussion prompted me to say that I don’t read or watch paranormal genre. I don’t, as a rule, but years back when the paranormal genre went from being me almost alone, the lone voice crying in the wilderness, to being more like a suburb with all sorts of neighbors, I did read some of the writers. Charlaine Harris was one of those exceptions. Her background was mystery and the books reflected that making the plots and characters richer and stand out from a lot of the writers who jumped on the paranormal bandwagon. The Sookie Stackhouse series was… Read More
As some of you know I’ve been sick for over a week. First a cold virus hit Jon and myself, then on top of that I became anemic again. The combination has laid me very low. I haven’t spent that much time on the couch, or napping at odd hours in the bed, in months, maybe a couple of years. My constitution score has gone up thanks to exercise, better nutrition, and allergy shots, but at heart I am not the most robust of people. This has reminded me of that. Saturday I put on two of my “doze and… Read More
I woke to the singing of a yellow-throated warbler. Musical, lilting, trilling up and then down; I’ve been hearing it for a few days now. It’s one of the few birds that seems to call in the August heat undeterred by temperatures over a 100, and a heat index that has become simply ridiculous. The yellow-throat is singing as I type this, over and over, in the bright morning light. Maybe it’s singing hard now so it can rest at the heat of the day. I saw a yellow-throated warbler in the spring; a glimpse of bright yellow on throat… Read More
Happy Lammas everyone! It’s also known as Loaf Mass if you’re old school Catholic. For those of us who are Wiccan it’s a celebration of the summer harvest. Most of our holidays are either a celebration of the bounty of the earth, or the return of the light: earth and sun, female and male, Goddess and God. Our religion, at it’s best, is about balance. Few of us live in contact with the earth now, growing our own food, or having livestock. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that not that many generations ago having plentiful food all year long wasn’t… Read More
“One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen.” Leo Tolstoy If the above quote is correct than I’m doing something very right with this latest Anita Blake novel, because it’s tearing me apart. At the end of the day I feel like the office should be a battlefield with my blood splashed across the keyboard, dripping from the monitor. There should be bits of skin and hair and flesh at the scene of the horror like a C.S.I. episode. Why is this book so hard? I woke anxious on Tuesday morning last week. Now, there are always things to be anxious about if you search hard enough, but there really wasn’t any good reason to be anxious. I meditated, had breakfast, tea, but still that fluttery feeling in my gut wouldn’t go away. Then I realized I had to get pages done on the new book because this afternoon is the Mayhem Fest with a lot of bands that I totally love. Carri and I are going, just us girls. Heat index is 105 today, so I’m trying to decide what bands are worth going… Read More
We will have a booth where there will merchanidize and signed books, and contests for giveaways, and all sorts of good stuff. Neither Jon, nor I, will be manning, or womaning, the booth. @thechickenchic will… Read More
Friday, August 13, 2010
Why I don’t read most Paranormal
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Agatha Christie, Alice in Wonderland, and Quality Time
Friday, August 06, 2010
Joy
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Lammas
Friday, July 30, 2010
Bleeding on my Keyboard
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Mayhem and Anxiety