The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange, by Mark Barrowcliffe.
Soho Press, hardcover (US edition)
Macmillan, hardcover (UK edition)
288 pages/240 pages, memoir/comedy/let's slag on D&D for several hundred pages 'cause it's fun
US edition coming November 1st, UK edition available now

( What do you get when a humorist and recovering D&D junkie decides to write an accounting of his childhood? You get this, also known as 'the first negative book review posted in this journal.' Click at your own peril.Collapse )

So I mentioned that I wore an absolutely fantastic green and gold necklace made of bugs when I went to visit my publisher, and that said necklace was a gift from the equally fantastic (although somewhat less wearable) copperwise. I don't actually have pictures of my 'Seanan wears the human pants' outfit. But I do have pictures of the necklace, taken by its creator, who was definitely better with a camera than I am. Here go:

* The necklace at an angle.
* The necklace, front and center.
* The necklace, bein' long.

In all shots, it is brilliantly covered in bugs, and the world rejoices. I adore my friends for knowing my tastes -- in both color and creatures -- and I adore my necklace for being long and shiny and covered in bugs.

Life is good.