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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 new religion 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.

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The meerkat is recuperating.  Slowly, but steadily. Also: writing.  Which is the best recovery-therapy of all.

Tonight, there's an unseasonably warm, wet and windy night gathering force outside.  I've tucked in the cats and pulled up the covers (or was that pulled up the cats and...) but I figured I'd leave you with this:

http://suricattus.tumblr.com/post/41923092003/one-ring-to-rule-them-all-one-ring-to-find

Because geeks really do rule.  

(and remember, tumblr is where you DO read the comments!)



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 Some of the amusements and thinky-things I've been linking to elsewhere, in one place for your clicking.
 
 
No, you're not a geek if you recognize these characters. That just means you're reasonably adept at the culture. You're a geek if you immediately start arguing over the placement of most, and discussing who would have been better in that slot...
 
 
 
io9 explains why I was tweet-flailing Thursday night...  RT @io9 Person of Interest delivers a dark, weird, soon-to-be-cult-favorite ep    God, I love that show.  A lot.  With Leverage gone, it's my only "I need to see the new ep!" show currently airing.
 
Wonder what "zero tolerance" means?  This might help explain it.  
 
and, if you were hiding under a rock and issed it:  The Geek-in-Chief approved this message....   
 
(some friends have taken offense at a warmongering etc government having a sense of humor, however geeky. I prefer to think of this as a pro-ISS campaign, and heartily approve.)

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