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Over on the Samhain blog, one of our new authors, Maria Zannini wrote a lovely spirit-of-the-season post that will make you kind of teary and give you a warm glow at the same time. It’s a quick read, go take a peek.

But so busy I can hardly breathe (been doing a lot of blogging in my head, though). It happens this time every year for most of us, I think, wondering if things will ever slow down. That’s one of the reasons we’ve decided to temporarily close submissions at Samhain (thought I’d just put that out [...]

Is Marianne, thanks to the random number generator! Marianne, email me with your mailing address and I’ll pre-order your copy of Shadow Music. All the rest of you, make sure you buy your copy when it releases and prove your fandom The winner of the download of a historical ebook from Samhain is Samantha, who [...]

added this plugin so I can blog from the iPhone. Very cool. Now I just have to learn to type on the darn thing. I think my fingers are too fat. Edited from laptop to add link to plugin. I also added this plugin, which will optimize the look of my blog on iPhone and [...]

I can post from my new iPhone. Squee! I owe you guys a long random post but as you can see I’ve been busy playing with my new toy. And learning to type on it. Oy. Hmm. Can’t seem to publish, only save. Will have to figure that out.

Yesterday, Sybil, of The Good, the Bad and the Unread wrote a post about the new Julie Garwood book that’s releasing on December 26th. Shadow Music** Sybil wrote about how she didn’t love the book and wondered how it would be received by readers. In the comments, I mentioned that I would be buying it, [...]

I’ve been all sorts of entertaining lately, haven’t I? Um, yeah. But I hear I’m not supposed to share personal angst with you guys, so what’s left? Oh, I know! Cute toddler pictures. Lucky for all of us, there are way more where that came from. One for every day of the week, maybe. So [...]

Sanderson to Complete Final Novel in Jordan Fantasy Series By Lynn Andriani — Publishers Weekly, 12/10/2007 7:13:00 AM Tor Books announced today that novelist Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish writing the final novel in Robert Jordan’s bestselling Wheel of Time fantasy series. Jordan—described by some as Tolkien’s heir—died Sept. 16 from a rare [...]

I’ve been, err, persuaded to start a Facebook (curse you, Lauren Dane). I have no idea what to do with it, other than feed my Fluffdog, Dood. But hey, I needed more time killers in my day. I did start a Samhain Publishing Group on Facebook, so you can join that. And while you’re at [...]

Even though I had time to prepare. I don’t think I ever would have been ready. Bye, fat cat. I’m going to miss you. You’ve been a good friend the past ten years, the one thing I always had to hold onto and make me smile. I’ll never forget that. Thank you.