What you need to understand is, I only found out about this yesterday. Some fiber artist or another died and bequeathed her collection to the Eugene Textile Center. The textile center was, in turn, having an estate sale. I, um. I thought we were going just to see what was there. But what happens when [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Acquisition!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fiber, knitting, sheep, spinning, wool on January 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Discovering the rhythm
Posted in writing, tagged books, new projects, WiP, writing, writing goals on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s an on-going process, finding the right balance between one’s interests, because the right balance fluctuates constantly. I’ve been working on the current book for two weeks, this weekend starting week three. I’ve also been working on critiquing a friend’s novella and have a novel coming my way to work on next. I have books [...]
Winners!
Posted in books, writing, tagged eugene, fairy queen of spencer's butte, giveaway, my books, writing on January 28, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Winners have been picked, and not by me! The winners for (my very first YAY) give-away are: Dani and meditativedishwashing. YAY and congrats! Email me in the next week at bluedolfyn at yahoo dot com with your address so I can get these in the mail next Saturday!
Currently Reading and on being in love
Posted in books, eugene, oregon, pacific northwest, writing, tagged books, eugene, my books, reading, WiP, writing on January 25, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Last weekend Beth and I ventured to our local university and renewed our library access there. The ability to do this — for local, non-student or faculty residences to have access to the University of Oregon’s library — is a major factor in our living here and part of why I am hopelessly in love [...]
Book Review: Teeth
Posted in books, tagged book review, ellen datlow, emma bull, holly black, melissa marr, neil gaiman, terri windling on January 25, 2012 | 3 Comments »
For our next review, I bring you: Teeth an anthology edited by that fabulous team Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, with contributions from such genre heavyweights as Neil Gaiman, Melissa Marr, Holly Black, Catherynne M. Valente, and Tanith Lee. (Hey, they’re heavyweights for me, okay?) It’s pretty much assured to be a great book, right? [...]
Finally: Kindle release!
Posted in books, writing, tagged books, fairy queen of spencer's butte, giveaway, kindle, my books, writing on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It took longer than expected, but I’m pleased to announce that The Fairy Queen of Spencer’s Butte and Other Tales is now available for Kindle and Kindle apps. To go along with the release of this, I’ve dropped the PDF price over at Lulu.com, so both e-formats match, price-wise. The next step is to get [...]
Book Review: Touch of Greek
Posted in books, tagged a touch of greek, book review, kindle, romance genre, tina folsom on January 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »
One thing I’m taking advantage of is the lower cost books for my Kindle. Readers to this blog have to know, I’m not a book snob. There is not any genre of book that I won’t read — if the story sounds interesting, I’ll read it. If the story sounds like it could be fun [...]
Not wanting to get all political
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
and, like so many things, it doesn’t sound *that* bad . . . except, it’s a door that opening scares the crap out of me, and so: Censorship is bad, mmkay?
The Fairy Queen of Spencer’s Butte Give-Away!
Posted in books, pacific northwest, writing, tagged fairy queen of spencer's butte, giveaway, my books, writing on January 18, 2012 | 16 Comments »
Okay, lovely people. I’ve got two copies in my hot little hands that are dying to leave the Pacific Northwest and venture elsewhere. (Um. Unless of course you’re in the Pacific Northwest, in which case, they just want to leave my house and go somewhere else new and exciting). So, the requirements for this little [...]
Say it with me: it’s not failure
Posted in writing, tagged kindle, WiP, writing goals on January 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
While a day that basically counts as negative writing feels like failure, when it’s preceded by a day of 6k words that are pretty much all keepers, it’s not failure. 6k words is about 1k more than my goal for weekly writing, so if I get that all in one day and I write nothing [...]
