Evening, squiders! I’m going mad but on we blindly stumble. July books: 3/6 (Angel Fire East) If you guys have been here for a while, you know that I attend MileHiCon every October and have for about a decade or so. It’s a lovely convention, specifically focused on science fiction and fantasy literature, and they let me do panels and feel like a real author for a weekend, and I’ve been on…

Good afternoon, squiders. MileHiCon starts in about an hour, and I’m not quite ready, so that tracks. Sigh. I did get moderator questions for all my panels (including the one I’m moderating, so obviously someone else is writing them for all the panels, and if it’s the same person for all of them she should ask for some help) so at least that got done without me actually doing it. I have found…

Morning, squiders. Hey, guess what is this weekend? It’s MILEHICON. Guess what I am not ready for? Also MileHiCon. When we talked on the 8th about getting ready for MileHiCon, I was like, oh, I don’t really need to get going yet. I have time! And that, my friends, was wrong. I forgot that all last week I was off cavorting through New Mexico (we got some rain but were not especially close to…

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Good evening, squiders! I hope your week is going well. So far, this random number generator plan I mentioned last week is working great. I’ve outlined my SkillShare class (something I’ve had on my to-do list for, like, two months), made great progress on my trip book and character drawings, and have finished my edit and sent it off to my final beta. And I’ve actually made a lot of progress on…

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Good afternoon, squiders. Hard to believe it’s November already, isn’t it? Let’s catch up. Saturday and Sunday we did get a foot of snow, but driving home from the con Saturday afternoon was the only bad time (though admittedly it was quite bad), and I was half an hour late on Saturday morning because someone had flipped their car in the middle of the interchange. But Saturday went well–I had…

Hello hello, squiders. I started writing this post on Wednesday before realizing that I was a day late on my promo post and switching to that instead. (Very embarrassing. I’ve been doing promo posts for years but have never been late on one before. Alas.) That was Wednesday, and now it is Friday night, and the bulk of the post, which was about how MileHiCon is this weekend and how, instead of…

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Good morning, squiders. We’re having new trees put it to replace the seven (7! 50 ft or more tall!) trees we lost during the tornado. Only four (my arborist says we have to wait a few years to put trees back where there were ones growing, so the root system can decay enough that a new tree can establish itself), and relatively small (between 8 and 12 feet tall, though taller than we thought we…

Howdy, squiders, how’s your October going? Mine has so far featured two deaths, the failure of my furnace right before it got cold, and yet somehow is still better than September was. My family got me a recurve bow and some arrows for my birthday last week, so I’m hoping to finally go back to my archery hobby some time soon. She said, laughing in her head, when she hasn’t gotten an off day in…