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Dec
12
Womanthology
This is the cover for the 5th issue of Womanthology Space which should be out on Feb 13th. I’ve got a 6 page comic story in there called Comet, which is a slight retelling of The Little Mermaid with steampunk robots. (and genderbent – so the “prince” is a girl and the robot is a boy. I actually found this pretty hard to do – I’m not a short story teller and I don’t know if I was able to pull it off the way I wanted, but hopefully you guys will like it! (It’s got a very whimsical Wizard of Oz feel to it, thanks to the artistic talents of Chrissie Zullo.) I don’t have a pre-order link for it on Amazon yet, but I’ve seen it around at a couple of online shops (Things From Another World, Westfield Comics, etc.) I’m guessing it will be on IDW’s site…
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Dec
11
Meringue Mountain
I spent most of the weekend baking cookies. My yearly baking of meringues takes a very long time to complete – and this year I did a triple batch, plus a single batch of standard chocolate chip cookies. Some of these are being sent out as gifts, but most will probably end up in my belly. Because, duh. They are awesome. Especially with ice cream. I sorta suspect I have too many still, though – so I’ll be bringing in some to work to give out. I’m oddly stingy about that, though – as much as I like it when people enjoy the fruits of my labor – after you spend about 6 hours baking the things, (and 70 minutes of that is stirring in the sugar, thanks), I want to make sure they’re appreciated. Or something. (And meringues are an acquired taste, I think – too sweet for many,…
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Dec
7
Friday Updates & Sundry
First off, I want to give a shout out to the World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto (and specifically Jessica Strider) for setting me up with a very nice display! (And go here for the matching interview, which can also be read at the display.) And again, sorry for not blogging as much recently. Sorta taking this month as a bit of a break, but I’ll be back on the ball starting in January. By the way – I owe some contest winners their books – I should be getting all those out on Monday. Got a ton of stuff to mail out, just gotta put it all together. I was over at Word Whores yesterday talking about how you know when a story is “done.” (Ha ha – if only it were that easy. Sometimes it really is a gut thing.) Fox & Willow was updated yesterday as well –…
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Dec
3
Cleaning House
I ended up doing a lot of house cleaning this weekend. I’m not close to being finished, but I’m an indifferent housekeeper at best, so there’s an awful lot to go through. (I can walk into my laundry room now, so yay for small victories.) I’ve had a lot on my mind anyway, but the holiday season always ends up stressing me out for various reasons. So, cleaning it is. Or really, throwing stuff away, which is just as cathartic in some ways. Though somewhat painful too, since I decided I was going to go through *everything* – and that includes a number of boxes that I haven’t touched since my mom died. So, yeah – cheery thought, I know, but I’ve been oscillating back and forth the last few days between something like relief and a mega shame-spiral over the book thing. (Which I realize is silly, but there it…
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Nov
30
Sayonara
So this is one of those things that’s lousy about being an author – having to deal with disappointment. But rather than drag it out, I’m just going to mention that due to publisher disinterest, there will be no more Abby Sinclair books. (That’s the simple explanation, anyway. Not going to get into the more complicated one.) Now, the Melanie short story is still coming out in August 2013 – so things aren’t completely ended just yet, but otherwise? That’s all she wrote. The thing is, I still have stories I want to tell in this world, so once I figure things out a bit, I’m hoping to look at self pubbing some shorter Abby-centric stories to help fill in some gaps. (Or perhaps via additional anthologies.) Melanie does have a story to tell, as does Talivar, so I may look look at self pubbing separate books for them as…
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