Where Personal and Professional Life Collide...

Or rather, I'm an excellent social media correspondent, but it's not always hitting here.  And I've yet to figure out how to connect this blog to my main one... 

Lawless Lands is On the Loose!


Changements de latitudes, changements d'attitude


A little Devil's West Updatery


Meanwhile, my sister and brother-in-law and his mother were in town for a family member's 90th birthday party, so it was good to see them and all the mishpocha (extended family of blood and marriage) from his side.  The weather was warm (HOT, by Seattle standards) but they seemed to be enjoying it.  I took one day off to play semi-local tour guide, and then hid in the tasting room all weekend.  You have to keep wineries/tasting rooms cool, to keep the wine stored in back (much of it in barrels) cool.  A useful hint, next time you get stuck in a heat wave....

Busy week ahead.  Thankfully, temps are supposed to drop 15-20 degrees back to Seattle-normal by tomorrow.  And not a moment too soon...

okay guys, today's the day to do it. My Reddit/f AMA is now officially (unless I screwed up the opening steps) LIVE.




Go on, do your best. Rock the forum so hard they think AC/DC's in town.

Juliet McKennna (jemck) invited me to take the mic today… talking about writing a western, against all plan or intention.

Cool and drizzly and dreary on the lovely spring day. The birds are twittering, the cats are snoozing, and the foghorns are speaking to each other again.


I had not been aware, previously, that foghorns could convey exasperation and rudeness quite so clearly as they do.


Slogging along on many thing that need to be written and re-written and rewritten once again.   Meanwhile, it's my turn in the "whatcha reading?" hotseat over at Book View Cafe.

that Ms. Kornetsky was up at XOXOAfterDark yesterday!


(I'm blaming the old and the new fridge for me being...distracted)

to my fourth and final Magical Words post this month, on "Rising from the Ashes..."

Fresh coffee, sleeping cats, and work to be done. There's my morning sorted, then.

Meanwhile, for you, I'm doing a guest stint this month at Magical Words....

I've posted the Tuesday Tease, for those of you interested in such things.

And I'm submitting myself to the Wendig Inquisition over at Terrible Minds....

And... it's D-11 for Gin & Tonic #3.  So that's where I'll be, if y'all need me.

For things Fannish, Silly, and otherwise reblogging Neat Stuff, there is: the meerkat's window

For things book/wrting related (and a fair amount of silly, because hello, have you MET me?), there is: writer. editor. tired person


I have no idea how much overlap there will be between here and w.e.tp.  There's not a hell of a lot of overlap of anything in the window - that's mainly me being goofy, with occasional flashes of serious....

But now you know.