"Dawn's in trouble? Must be Tuesday.": seanan

"Dawn's in trouble? Must be Tuesday."

Item the first: I have run the random number generator against the latest ARC contest, and

saladofdoom is our winner.

saladofdoom, you have until Sunday, July 4th, to contact me with your mailing information. (This is longer than I usually give, but I'm about to head for Westercon, so I'm not going to be checking mail reliably for a few days.) I can also just bring your book with me when I come up to Seattle next weekend. Let me know your preference, and it shall be done.

Item the second: Yesterday morning, I saw a single crow sitting on the telephone pole next to the bus stop, watching me. "One for sorrow," I thought, and followed it up with, "But where's the sorrow?" Immediately, a car drove through a puddle that shouldn't have been there, it being, you know, July, and spattered me with lukewarm water. The message is clear: do not taunt the crow oracle, yo. You will not enjoy the results one little bit.

Item the third: The editorial revisions of Late Eclipses are barreling merrily along, and reminding me once again that there's a reason we do multiple passes on these things. So far, I've found an appearing/disappearing jacket, an appearing/disappearing car, a totally misnamed architectural feature, and a chunk of dialog that seriously read like it had been pasted in from another book. Thank the Great Pumpkin for the editorial process.

Item the fourth: My mother came by last night with my sister and her wife in tow. They have once again absconded with a very large sack of books, because I am the family lending library. I treated them to the hysterical spectacle that is Alice trying to get me to give her wet food, because I am a cruel, heartless lending library. (Their favorite part was when I picked her up, and she tried to swim through the air to the bowl.) It was nice to see them, even if it did mean I had to save the second half of this week's Leverage for tonight.

Item the fifth: I am watching the second half of this week's Leverage tonight.

Item the sixth: I should have some very concrete information about Wicked Girls super-soon, and it's really shaping up to be amazing. I love working with Kristoph, and I love all the material on this album. Both of my cover songs have been approved ("Tanglewood Tree" and "Writing Again"), and since I wrote the other fourteen, I'm not particularly concerned. I'm so pleased with this whole process. Life is good.

Item the seventh: My dreams last night featured a tank of lionfish that wanted snuggles, two connected houses in a suburb of San Francisco that managed to look exactly like Concord, buying new luggage, trying to fly to Australia while balancing on a bathroom railing, taking a nap, and a visit to the tiara store. I'm reasonably sure this was a big ol' anxiety dream about Australia and the Campbell Award, but I woke up going "awwwwwwwww, cutest lionfishes ever." This proves that not even my own brain is very good at upsetting me.

What's new with you?

scifantasy

June 29 2010, 14:41:01 UTC 7 years ago

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I just got back from a weekend consisting of Conterpoint, a plane, a wedding, and not enough sleep. Making that a roughly accurate description of both Conterpoints I've been to, amusingly.

seanan_mcguire

June 29 2010, 16:20:05 UTC 7 years ago

Awesome.

7 years ago

hms42

dornbeast

June 29 2010, 15:47:46 UTC 7 years ago

I'm trapped between the part of me that insists that the parody must be written, and the part of me that says, "But 'Sycamore Tree' sounds so complicated in that part, and besides, Seanan might kill you!"

No idea which side is winning.

June 29 2010, 16:20:23 UTC 7 years ago

What parody?

tikiera

all_ephemera

June 29 2010, 15:54:29 UTC 7 years ago

Leverage I love you Leverage! *ahem* I still need to check out Jon Rodger's blog and see the Q&A for the 4 episodes I have seen. Then - woe! they're taking a week off. WTFuckery is that?? *pout*

June 29 2010, 16:20:40 UTC 7 years ago

We'll still have been given four episodes in three weeks. I'm good with that.

kittikins

June 29 2010, 16:07:06 UTC 7 years ago

I always love books when the world as we know it ends and it's a Tuesday. I like to think it's a Buffy homage, even when it's not.

My English Angora rabbit, Jane (who incidentally wears an invisible tiara, just ask her) absolutely HATES the food cup in her cage. Hates it so much that when I want to entertain guests I stick my hand in it and chase her around her cage with it, making monster noises as she kicks and tries to rip it off my hand. ...The things a girl has to do when she can't cook and therefore every dinner party is more alcohol and rabbit taunting flavored than food.

June 29 2010, 16:20:59 UTC 7 years ago

...yeah, but now I kinda wanna come to one of your dinner parties.

July 3 - Sunday?

murphy73

June 29 2010, 16:15:06 UTC 7 years ago

In checking my calendar, it appears that July 3 is on a Saturday. Sunday is the day for celebrating the 4th with firecrackers that drive my dogs crazy.

Re: July 3 - Sunday?

June 29 2010, 16:21:09 UTC 7 years ago

Math is hard. :(

inkedhistorian

June 29 2010, 16:20:53 UTC 7 years ago

The pool's opened at the apartment so the rest of the family can actually do something enjoyable while I write instead of looking at me with sad puppy eyes and hanging on to my feet while I try to get away. (Ok, that last part doesn't happen, but I do have a lot less guilt when my son's off being happy). I got a rejection letter and a revised novel outline in the last 24 hours, so I know what I'm working on this week.

My dream last night involved meeting my husband for the first time and doing all the flirty things until he finally kissed me. Considering the last few nights of dreams have been dead people and gore, I take this as a sign my brain is sorry and trying to be friends with me again.

June 29 2010, 16:21:44 UTC 7 years ago

It's always nice when the brain says sorry.

aliciaaudrey

June 29 2010, 16:24:18 UTC 7 years ago

Learning to love your editors is probably the hardest lesson a writer can learn, I think. Hubby told me a notable author who he read an interview with (he seems to recall it was Elizabeth Berg) said that handing your manuscript over to a proofreader and editing group is like handing your baby off to a malicious looking group of people who are going to use chainsaws and sharp pointing things on your precious little baby...to make it better. Painful but necessary.

June 29 2010, 17:00:18 UTC 7 years ago

I love my editors.

Thankfully.

bigherman

June 29 2010, 16:26:12 UTC 7 years ago

Girl, it's still June, don't get ahead of yourself. But I agree with the weather thing. Worst. June. Ever.

Lately it's been fun because if I dress for the weather in Oakland, where I work, I'm just about dead by the time I get to my car from the BART train back in Concord. When I went to TJ's last night, I let the person behind me go ahead of me because I wanted to enjoy the A/C a little longer. (Well, really, she only had one item, but the upside was as I described.)

Started knitting my grandfather's vest, and it's going swimmingly, and the Tour de Fleece begins this Saturday!

June 29 2010, 17:00:33 UTC 7 years ago

Dressing for the weather around here can be fatal.

apocalypticbob

June 29 2010, 17:00:02 UTC 7 years ago

I totally read that as "a single cow sitting on the telephone pole next to the bus stop, watching me."

There would be far more sorrow if it was cows.

June 29 2010, 17:01:22 UTC 7 years ago

Also far more horrible, tragic accidents.

textileowl

June 29 2010, 17:18:45 UTC 7 years ago

Jeff and I finished up the paper work to be legally recognized as married, since we already considered ourselves husband and wife, which isn't enough for both his family and the law....

I emailed you an update on swatches, let me know where to send them and I will get them to you as soon as possible.

July 1 2010, 05:35:36 UTC 7 years ago

Rock on, on all counts.

And the law can stuff it. You looked married to me.

Peanuts, Tricksters, and David Bowie

snowcoma

June 29 2010, 17:44:20 UTC 7 years ago

Re: item the second; you are a Coyote girl. What made you think taunting a Trickster was a good idea? ;)

This is why I keep the local ravens appeased with offerings of peanuts. Rarely do I have less than a mirth, usually it's a wedding, sometimes even a birth or a goddamn that's a lot of ravens. Also, the cats go FLIPPIN' NUTS when ginormous birds lands on the balcony, so there's that.

I finished A Local Habitation this week! It was utterly wonderful, totally lived up to the first, and left me wanting MOAR. And while I picture him very differently, I've "heard" all of Tybalt's lines in the voice of David Bowie since the first time I met him on the page. This in no way helps me avoid shipping him with Toby (not that I'd WANT to avoid it, really).

Re: Peanuts, Tricksters, and David Bowie

July 6 2010, 15:15:42 UTC 7 years ago

Yay!

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June 29 2010, 19:04:51 UTC 7 years ago

I have to ask: In this context, what does "ship" mean?

sweetmusic_27

asthecrowfly

June 29 2010, 18:47:41 UTC 7 years ago

I'm doing a victory dance that a magazine I love will let me send e-ARCs, thus combining magazine I love+boss I adore in one e-mail that will take my inbox out in a quantum singularity of rock.Other than that, trying to remember to stop working long enough to eat breakfast. Though, it's ten to noon. I think it counts as lunch now.

July 6 2010, 15:16:21 UTC 7 years ago

Win!

sylk

June 29 2010, 19:19:08 UTC 7 years ago

If you ever get the chance, I would love to see video of the Alice and wet food game. My cats generally try to kill me so that the plates reach the floor quicker, gravity being faster than me bending over.

July 6 2010, 15:17:31 UTC 7 years ago

I'll need to get somebody else to film it; it takes both hands.

saladofdoom

June 29 2010, 19:24:02 UTC 7 years ago

Yay!
only now I feel guilty...

It seems like it would get here fastest if you just bring it with you.

July 6 2010, 15:17:44 UTC 7 years ago

Why feel guilty? The gods of random chose you!

brightlotusmoon

June 29 2010, 20:03:38 UTC 7 years ago

I love when authors post about the editing process and editorial revisions, because it reassures me that everyone makes the weirdest mistakes and that great editors should probably be worshiped.
I once read a blog entry by Laurell K. Hamilton that convinced me that she had either very stupid editors, very tired editors, or no editors at all.
So whenever a writer praises editors, I get gleefully happy.

July 7 2010, 15:25:26 UTC 7 years ago

My editors are my best friends.

Sometimes literally.

deakat

June 29 2010, 22:18:59 UTC 7 years ago

I just got word that the repair of my smucked car has been delayed, and now they don't expect it to be ready before next Tuesday. Wah! It had best be ready then, because Thursday morning I need to transport the BigDog to the kennel, on my way to cross the US/Canada border and drive to ReaderCon.

I've never driven into/through any states before, and the trip takes me through four in which I've not yet set foot.

July 7 2010, 15:25:37 UTC 7 years ago

Gleep!

deire

June 29 2010, 23:03:46 UTC 7 years ago

They let me draw blood four times a week.

Clearly my harmless appearance has been restored.

July 7 2010, 15:25:45 UTC 7 years ago

idancewithlife

June 30 2010, 02:59:30 UTC 7 years ago

I finished your article in Chicks Dig Time Lords today--really cool. And it made me think I did a pretty good job with your walk-on in my 9th Doctor crossover (except that your cats don't like the Tardis).

Lola

July 7 2010, 15:30:13 UTC 7 years ago

I wouldn't bring my cats on the TARDIS. Well. Maybe Lilly.

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