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Hope the USians among you had a lovely and quiet Thanksgiving last week. I did, but I POINTEDLY don’t deal with my blood family these days. Like, last saw most of them a decade ago when I married the Fabulous Publisher Babe™ and some of them came. Not all. Try to talk to my sisters on their birthdays. Couldn’t tell you when I last talked to nieces and nephews.
You are not required to go hang out with horrible people. Honest. I’m not their cup of tea and vice versa. That’s fine. I have Donna’s family and Leah’s and both generally like me.
News: She spatchcocked and smokered a turkey. Holy shit did it turn out perfect. I made Stuffing Balls (a new to me recipe that’s extremely adaptable to sweet as well as savory). Made Graham crackers so I could make a pie crust with them to make the French Silk Chocolate Pie recipe you saw last month. Made her mom’s recipe cinnamon rolls with an overnight rise in the fridge to bake for breakfast Thursday morning. Mashed Sweet potato. Cranberry/Orange stuff.
Really good and just the right amount of leftovers.
Already sent out a newsletter and a lot of emails, so keeping this brief.
Third A’Zedi Survey Corps book is ¾ done. Finish it this week. Dunno pub date.
If you are in that series as a character, I would like to track you down IRL and get you to sign my copy. Or have you mail me a bookmark or something with your sig to include. And I’ll sign your copy when I see you. Will be at Superstars in Colorado in Feb. Probably will be at Norwescon (haven’t gotten confirmation on programming yet). Live Seattle-ish. Check in.
Also finished a villain story for Zach and Redlance, introducing a character I have described as a Gender-swapped Joker who lets me get inside her head and revel in chaos crazy. Those are the most fun, because she does weird shit for reasons that make perfect sense to her and not to anybody else.
Known too many authors who only write Lawful Evil, regardless. I enjoy dabbling in Chaotic Evil from time to time. More than one GM has regretted giving me permission to do that, but that’s a later story.
Also rereading Kincaide, because writer-brain might finally be ready to conclude that epic trilogy with ‘The Ships Of Heaven’ going back more than a decade to the original ideas that I wasn’t skilled enough to pull off at the time.
More next week. Not a lot of brain this morning.
Cheers.
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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