happy2. Amy Mebberson made a thing and you should all go admire it. I ordered mine so fast when it went up for sale that I actually got #1 of 50. That is love.
3. If you don't have a budget line item for Amy's art (which, let's face it, is a weird line item to have in a budget, and yet), take a look at Renee Nault's incredible watercolor mermaids. She has prints and calendars for sale, and has an incredibly diverse undersea world waiting for you to dive in. So pretty. So cool.
4. Starting Christmas Day, and continuing all the way through my birthday festivities, I will be doing a chain of twelve giveaways, for everything from ARCs and printed books to cover flats, posters, and special surprises. Each giveaway will have its own rules; watch this space for details.
5. Omnivoracious posted a super-fun thing about books at San Diego Comic-Con, including a picture of me in my Umbrella Corporation blue dress, standing in front of the Umbrella Corporation red cover for Parasite. I look very smug. You would, too, if that were your cover.
6. Alice and I did the Macarena this morning. I enjoyed it more than she did.
7. The year is almost over, but there are still some fun surprises to come: watch this space for details, and watch the sky for alien invasions. Darn those alien invasions.
8. Zombies are love.
9. I will be making my last pre-Christmas stop at Borderlands Books this afternoon. At this point, anything ordered won't reach you before the holidays, but you can still get signed and personalized books if you contact them before 2pm PST. After that, I don't guarantee another swing-through until sometime in January.
10. Finally for right now, Jill is still accepting donations to fund her surgery. As I said when she first started this campaign, we could buy her a future for Christmas, and that's amazing. If you've been looking for a tip jar to shove a couple of dollars into as a karmic investment for the year to come, please swing by and take a look at her plea.
I hope that you're all having the merriest holiday possible; I hope you're warm and safe and content, even if you're not in a place where you can be happy; I hope you're taking care of yourselves.
Let's get through these holidays together.
December 20 2013, 19:49:05 UTC 3 years ago
2. My family had a Maine Coon cat once upon a time, back in high school. I miss him.
3. Remember, even if we have all your novels, we can still buy more and slowly convert our collections into exclusively signed editions. That's my plan, anyway. :) I don't have all the anthologies and short story collections, though ebook versions are helping fill that gap.
4. I just snagged "Raygun Chronicles" this afternoon in the Kindle edition. Both you and my friend Kaolin are in it! Sadly, e-versions cannot yet be signed by pen and ink on the actual electrons...
5. I do not know about you, but my comic book collection is *out of control*. I regularly donate shelf/floor spillage to the library bookstores, but it occurred to me last night that the local Children's Hospital might like donations, too. For people reading this blog who also have this problem, consider whether local hospitalized teenagers might like to share the adventures of Jean Grey, Scott Summers, and Emma Frost, too! (Though I do realize there are other comic books besides the X-Men and this love triangle.)
Mack
January 20 2014, 23:45:36 UTC 3 years ago
February 6 2014, 10:47:33 UTC 3 years ago
P.S. Re: Indexing -- I am glad I remembered that A) there is an official way to reach you for author contact matters and B) I actually used it recently. Glossing over the details, now Borderlands will have my fresh copies of Indexing to be signed whenever you stop by there next. I am quite happy to wait until whenever your logical next trip would be, incl. the other regular March 15 signing. (Opening packages from Borderlands of your books basically makes me just squeal with delight.)
P.P.S. Yes, I know it's already been published once in a medium, but now I can give paperback copies to my friends!