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For personal reasons I’m about to be missing from the computer for an extended period (from the 16th of June until the end of August, it looks like, although I *might* manage to sneak a few moments online in the latter half of August). And I mean, really missing from the computer–not just no updates, [...]

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1. So, now that Make it Rough is on sale (and excerpted at the Changeling Press blog, if you’re curious), I’m doing other things. Specifically, I’m writing and researching other things. Yes, more than one: I get more writing done when I can switch from project to project. But one of the things I’m tentatively [...]

Advance warning: Parts of this are Not Safe For Work, Not Suitable For Children. You might not want to click if you’re squeamish, either. So I was browsing the internet–an activity I am beginning to think I should avoid–looking for examples of fiction or art by women who go all swoony over doctors (disclosure: I [...]

Real life overtook me for a while there. Not in a bad way, but certainly in a time-comsuning one. So as the economy continues to falter, and we all scramble to rediscover the virtues of thrift and environmentalism, I feel even happier than usual with my odd interests and hobbies. I have things I enjoy [...]




  • But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. ~Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. ~Robertson Davies, Tempest Tost
  • "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." ~Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living
  • Sex is important because it is central to being human, because it intersects everything else, because it is the physical realm's metaphor for the chaos and texture of our spiritual and psychological lives. Sallie Tisdale, talk Dirty to me

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