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Silver on the Tree
Jul. 14th, 2011 11:32 amI review Silver on the Tree over at Tor.com. One more Susan Cooper book to go, and then it's off to Edith Nesbit.
More Tor.com blogging and other stuff
Jul. 7th, 2011 10:51 am1. Trike update: attempts to fix the trike have failed. The new trike is on its way, but by all reports will not get delivered to the bike shop until next week (it's coming on a very very slow truck from California. Well, maybe the truck isn't actually that slow; it just feels slow.) Then it has to be assembled, which takes time.
Not having the trike has left me very cranky and depressed. I've hit the stage where someone can say, "Oooh, pandas are cute!" AND I WILL HATE THAT PERSON AND PANDAS. Unreasonable, it is me.
2. Meanwhile, my post on The Grey King just went up on Tor.com. It's going to get completely overshadowed by the joy and excitement about Jo Walton's spoiler-free A DANCE WITH DRAGONS review - moderate spoiler: SHE LIKED IT! YAY! (This is a relief. I need to hear from happy obsessed fans.) And she said the book had dragons, which -- ok, I guessed that, but still I am all happy. Dragons!
3. So, yes, hoping that by sometime next week, I shall have a trike again, I shall have dragons, and I shall have these two short stories that just do not seem to want to work at all finished. Making me just SLIGHTLY less cranky and irritable and prone to sudden tears. Hope.
I cannot believe how emotionally dependent I've become on this trike. Let me go hug my cat.
Not having the trike has left me very cranky and depressed. I've hit the stage where someone can say, "Oooh, pandas are cute!" AND I WILL HATE THAT PERSON AND PANDAS. Unreasonable, it is me.
2. Meanwhile, my post on The Grey King just went up on Tor.com. It's going to get completely overshadowed by the joy and excitement about Jo Walton's spoiler-free A DANCE WITH DRAGONS review - moderate spoiler: SHE LIKED IT! YAY! (This is a relief. I need to hear from happy obsessed fans.) And she said the book had dragons, which -- ok, I guessed that, but still I am all happy. Dragons!
3. So, yes, hoping that by sometime next week, I shall have a trike again, I shall have dragons, and I shall have these two short stories that just do not seem to want to work at all finished. Making me just SLIGHTLY less cranky and irritable and prone to sudden tears. Hope.
I cannot believe how emotionally dependent I've become on this trike. Let me go hug my cat.
The Dark Is Rising/Clarkesworld podcast
Jun. 16th, 2011 10:24 amBack to discussing Susan Cooper today, with The Dark Is Rising over at Tor.com.
And Clarkesworld has just released a podcast of Trickster. This is the first time since my brief time in second grade that I've ever heard someone else read one of my works out loud. It turns out to be both odd and exhilarating -- odd, because I write, more or less, to mental dictation, hearing the voices and conversation in my head, and hearing those words in someone else's voice is initially disconcerting, exhilarating to hear the new voice infuse emotions into your words, to hear the new voice try entirely different voices for your characters. Kate Baker did an excellent job here, creating different voices for each character which is no easy task, very much getting across the fury I wanted to have seething from the webpage. So, awesome. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
And Clarkesworld has just released a podcast of Trickster. This is the first time since my brief time in second grade that I've ever heard someone else read one of my works out loud. It turns out to be both odd and exhilarating -- odd, because I write, more or less, to mental dictation, hearing the voices and conversation in my head, and hearing those words in someone else's voice is initially disconcerting, exhilarating to hear the new voice infuse emotions into your words, to hear the new voice try entirely different voices for your characters. Kate Baker did an excellent job here, creating different voices for each character which is no easy task, very much getting across the fury I wanted to have seething from the webpage. So, awesome. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
