Very Short Wednesday
I really need a night off.* So I thought I’d leave you with two Exciting Announcements and a few links.** Peter’s IN THE PALACE OF THE KHANS has been nominated for the Carnegie long list:...
View ArticleDreaming Middle Earth
Bratsche Do you dream Middle Earth, Robin, or is that just Kes? (If you’re willing to tell, of course.) Yes. Absolutely. I was probably ‘dreaming’ the Shire before I got to the end of chapter one...
View ArticleKES . . .
Blondviolinist (And now I have only about a thousand questions, some of which are from earlier but are more pressing now that someone has tried to KILL Kes & Sid in their own (brand new) home....
View ArticleGood and bad. But the good wins.
Hellhounds ate lunch. This hasn’t happened in WEEKS.* And they followed this up by eating dinner**. Almost everything else has gone awry but my priorities are clear. Hellhounds who eat are crucial...
View ArticleAnother day bites the dust
So I’m short of sleep (again). The hellhounds weren’t eating (again) last night so I got to bed later than desirable. And still had to get up in time to sprint down to the mews for the speech...
View ArticleDrums and trumpets . . .
. . . I am taking the night off.* However I don’t want to leave you entirely without reading material. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will already know this because Stephanie Burgis, who...
View ArticleI’m going to try again to go to bed early tonight. . . .
Having signally failed (again) last night. I need either to learn not to fall asleep in the bath or how to keep the water hot and just sleep in the bath. I sleep there so much better than I sleep...
View ArticleHow to ruin my day
Merrilee will want to try to make a book out of it at some point We’ve all mentioned how thrilled we’d be to have this in book form at some point and that touches on another thing I’m really looking...
View ArticleRant revisited
Didn’t get a lot of sleep last night—so what else is new—last night was however aggravated by shooting awake every time a hellcritter sighed or got up to scratch its bed into a more salubrious shape....
View ArticleKES comments continued and so on and so on and doobie doobie do
Speaking of excellent stories, you’re all Octavia E Butler readers, I hope?* Well, looky here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4976-0137-6 And now let the frivolity roll. . . . AJLR I hope...
View ArticleThe horror, the horror
The attic. Moan. The attic. At Third House. Moooooan. The attic . . . moan. August is almost gone and some time in September I have to bring the frelling backlist home from the last storage...
View ArticleThe backlist came home today
All 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 boxes of it. I should know, I shifted all of them. I am a HEROINE. Peter says so. I am a heroine having a nice little quarter bottle of champagne.*...
View ArticleBacklist, addendum
PamAdams ‘Pavlova, drag these boxes of books up the stairs for Mommy, please.’ ::falls down laughing:: Now why didn’t I think of that? She’s got both the legs sprung of extra-supreme-alloy and the...
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An attic full of books
THERE’S TOO MUCH GOING ON* including various bits of news** both good and bad that I haven’t entirely got my head around yet*** although when I do some of them will make it onto the blog. Meanwhile I...
View ArticleThe ebook announcement you’ve been waiting for, with supplementary arrrrrgh
Well of course I knew this was coming. I signed a contract, right? Months ago. But I was fallen on in body by everyone involved and FORBIDDEN to announce the news before time.* And then at the...
View ArticleOh, cool/hot/awesome/slang of the moment!
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/oct/16/neil-gaiman-russell-brand-modern-fairytale-makeover-princess This is a really interesting article anyway full of stuff I need to check out but...
View ArticleAMA link is live
Anyone in England who doesn’t stay up late, or anyone in America who has other plans for the evening, or anyone in [insert other part of the world] who can’t make the official AMA live time for...
View ArticlePub day
Those ebooks you’ve been waiting for? Today’s the day. . . . * Robin McKinley Ebooks YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.** ::Confetti:: Fireworks? Sure. Why not. Also fireworks. And champagne. Definitely...
View ArticleA Little Light Relief
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/the-pop-quiz-at-the-end-of-the-universe-robin-mckinley They had a little trouble with my footnotes for some reason. Do you know ANYONE ELSE who has EVER...
View ArticleNice Things*
HERO won the Newbery thirty years ago. Thirty. How scary is that. Anyway some silly person thought it might be amusing to interview me on the subject. Fortunately they sent me a list of questions...
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