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1) Did you see my happy cover reveals for HEART OF BRIAR and SOUL OF FIRE? If not, checkit! http://www.lauraannegilman.net/first-look-heart-of-briar-and-soul-of-fire/
2) The Skiffy Internet is in an uproar because some white male readers got ewwwww!cooties from all the female and non-white (and non-white females!) on the Nebula ballot. All I can say is: cootie-fearing fandom, grow the FUCK up already. And if you can't, then stay in your own cootie-free playpens and leave the adults alone. Sometimes there are more guys than women on the ballot(s). Sometimes there are more women than men. Genders and nationalities and skin tones shift. This? Is all GOOD. It means we have a vibrant and expanding genre with lots of good work to choose from. If you think this is something to moan about, please see above re: playpens.
3. There are a lot of new books out from Book View Cafe this week! Go checkit.
4. 2013, in addition to being the year of Being Really Damn Busy, is also the year I let myself work ALL the hours... M-F. And very few hours S-S. So far, this is... working extremely well. Workaholicism With Limits. It's the hot newreligion cult philosophy.
Status Report:
Today I: wrote 2k words. Edited someone else's story. Signed on for a long-term freelance project. Mended a coat.
All four of those things filled me with the same level of competent accomplishment. Or accomplished competence. Whatever.
The daily darling:
The boss never forbade them anything stronger, but Marie frowned on the girls drinking while they were working, saying men could make themselves foolish, but a woman never should.
2) The Skiffy Internet is in an uproar because some white male readers got ewwwww!cooties from all the female and non-white (and non-white females!) on the Nebula ballot. All I can say is: cootie-fearing fandom, grow the FUCK up already. And if you can't, then stay in your own cootie-free playpens and leave the adults alone. Sometimes there are more guys than women on the ballot(s). Sometimes there are more women than men. Genders and nationalities and skin tones shift. This? Is all GOOD. It means we have a vibrant and expanding genre with lots of good work to choose from. If you think this is something to moan about, please see above re: playpens.
3. There are a lot of new books out from Book View Cafe this week! Go checkit.
4. 2013, in addition to being the year of Being Really Damn Busy, is also the year I let myself work ALL the hours... M-F. And very few hours S-S. So far, this is... working extremely well. Workaholicism With Limits. It's the hot new
Status Report:
Today I: wrote 2k words. Edited someone else's story. Signed on for a long-term freelance project. Mended a coat.
All four of those things filled me with the same level of competent accomplishment. Or accomplished competence. Whatever.
The daily darling:
The boss never forbade them anything stronger, but Marie frowned on the girls drinking while they were working, saying men could make themselves foolish, but a woman never should.
