• Mood: fabulous
• Music: The Last Five Years, 'The Schmuel Song.'

A few fabulous things for a Monday.

The first fabulous thing: note the icon on this entry. Is that an icon for An Artificial Night? Why, yes. Yes, it is. And was it made by the amazing noelia_g, who made my Rosemary and Rue icon? Why, yes. Yes, it was. She has also kindly made an icon for A Local Habitation which is just gorgeous. So now I can tag all my Toby posts accurately. Or at least all my Toby posts about the first three books, and right now, those are what matter, right?

The second fabulous thing: I think I get, quite possibly, the funniest mail in the world. At the end of an inquiry I recently received:

Thank you for your attention (and please don't engineer a flesh-eating bacteria just for me).

I have the best correspondents in the world. Also, they have amazing faith in my ability to synthesize flesh-devouring bacteria without a lab or access to trained support staff, which is actually seriously awesome in and of itself.

The third fabulous thing: I'm still basically floating from knocking out ten thousand words on The Mourning Edition over the weekend. Yeah, I know, it's just the beginning, but y'know what? It's my beginning. And even if the book runs to 200,000 words, which seems rather unlikely, it's 5% of the full text. It's a good beginning. I'm happy.

What's fabulous in your world today?