More writing goodies...

... by way of Moonrat, who adds an amendment to Tom's publishing glossary.

I love this one:
TRADE PAPERBACKS: What readers do instead of purchasing new books.

=hides Bookmooch and PaperbackBookSwap accounts furtively=

Aprilynne talks about firsts... from the desperation of being an aspiring author and the importance of goals.

And Moonrat herself discusses cutting text from writing.

Charity...

Today, if you have a moment -- pop over to macmh.org's match-it donation page. Please pass it along to others as well.

Mental health matters to me; I'm bipolar. And I happen to be lucky to know others to whom it matters also.

And if you have another way to donate, do that. The Bookmooch site allows readers to donate books; always ask and see if you can offer to volunteer or give in another way if that suits you best. How would you know sans asking?

OSC's 'Show + Tribe

I haven't been keeping up on my blog roll lately -- neck-deep in copy editing does that. [I'll catch up when Locus is delivered.] Today I did pop over and see a title the great Lee Kontis reviewed: Ophelia Joins the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook

I was also thinking of Lee because of the penguins. Don't you always think of Edmund and penguins??

That came to mind because I heard this news, about a Shimmery person. Eric's also helped out at a ConClave writing workshop. :>

Congrats, Eric!

The point of all this? Ah, well, if you didn't know, sf is a fairly tight-knit bunch. :> There's a reason Emma and others call us The Tribe.

Edited to add -- another topic:

Author fair treatment by Neil, by way of Robin McKinley's blog.

In Ohio...

We made it down to Ohio a bit before the wee hours Saturday evening.

Began settling in. Locus came in yesterday evening.

Please send good thoughts to my cat, who is taking the change poorly -- we lived alone, he and I, for nearly two years. This house has other creatures, but he is a little furry person you know, how dare--! Plus, the friendly dog and one particular cat [Mister] are very interested in him. Poor Gamble doesn't care for his welcoming committee.

So Gamble's coming out to explore when it's just he and I during the daytime, to help him adjust. That mostly works, except when Mister ogles Gam through the window.

Off to finish book. :>