Tag Archives: cats

Why This Is Not A Proper Blog Post

August 12, 2012 – 10:26 am

So this week has been crazy, yes, but it’s the last two days in particular that really did me in. Saturday in particular. It went something like this:   Wednesday   Me: Cazaril, that’s about six too many hairballs. I’m calling the carpet cleaners. Cazaril: Hmmm? Did you know there’s a bird outside this window? [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2011 – 6:18 am

Merry Christmas (or midwinter holiday of your choice), everybody! I’m mostly taking the day off, but I couldn’t leave you with nothing at all on the blog, so I thought I would give you some links. As some of you may recall, back in September I had a three-day visit from a team of video [...]

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Miscellaneous Updating

April 27, 2011 – 6:29 am

 First things first: a bit over two weeks ago, our own Michelle Wood emailed me that she’s done a wonderful video trailer for the Frontier Magic series. I’ve been planning to put a link to it on the website, but I’m in the downhill rush to finish the book and updating the web page is [...]

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Time Travel the Easy Way

July 25, 2010 – 11:07 am

A few days ago, Beth my exercise buddy mentioned that she’d been rereading some of Connie Willis’ time-travel stories, and it inspired her to ask me a question:  If you could go back in time to do historical research, what time and place would you pick? I mulled it over for a few days before [...]

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Finish line…first draft

June 4, 2010 – 12:07 pm

Finished up the last chapter of Circuit Magician yesterday around noon; spent the rest of the afternoon doing final clean-up of assorted things that had been tagged to fix but somehow hadn’t gotten fixed yet, and sent it off. This morning, I had notes from my editor and agent saying they received it, so the [...]

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One down, many to go…

April 14, 2010 – 4:07 pm

I am home again after another four-day trip to Chicago to get my Dad’s taxes signed and meet with the lawyer about family business stuff. I am more than a little chuffed, because this is the first time in at least six years that Dad hasn’t needed to file an extension. (You all did notice [...]

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Cats. Why did it have to be cats?

August 14, 2009 – 8:35 am

Cazaril, my Maine Coon/Tabby rescue cat, has been seriously annoyed with me lately. I think it’s all the travel – he really doesn’t like being left home with just Nimue for company. So he’s been trying to get me up several times a night. To play with him. (How I know this is, I made [...]

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Rain!

June 8, 2009 – 10:09 am

Rain is a good thing, at least right here, right now. We’ve been badly in need of it…and we finally got some this weekend. It’s still wet and drippy and dark out, which means that a) I don’t have to do any yard work today, and b) the cats are curled up in their favorite [...]

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Moving right along

May 8, 2009 – 9:45 pm

So the first round of publicity appearances is over; I have two weeks now before Wiscon and the side trip to deal with pressing family business. When you’re working on a book, two weeks is not as much time as it sounds. I’m hoping to use the time to get back some of the momentum [...]

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