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Cabinet Des Fées Reviews Returning My Sister’s Face

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This day did indeed improve! I came across a glowing review of Returning My Sister’s Face by Erzebet YellowBoy (erzebet) in the current issue (#8) of Cabinet Des Fées:

“Lovers of fairy and folk tales who crave, as I do, stories from cultures not their own will delight in these deceptively simple tales. They are layered with tragedy and superstition, with spirituality and most importantly, with a fine sense of the marvelous.”

Cabinet Des Fées actually reviewed a bunch of Norilana titles, with Vera being something of a featured author, including norilana‘s fabulous Dreams of the Compass Rose, Salt of the Air, and The Duke in His Castle.

Cleaning Fail. Movie Watching Win.

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My folks are visiting from China next weekend. Planned to do a lot of housecleaning this weekend.

Massive cleaning fail.

But we did watch Bolt (Fun+) and Wolverine (Meh. Very meh. I had fewer suspension of disbelief issues with a talking animated dog than I did with Wolverine).

My excuse is that it rained all weekend, and I’m always low-energy and groggy when it rains—and I don’t take my uppers—and that’s the story I’m sticking with.

It’s the Little Things

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Still playing mad catch-up. Still sound like a chain-smoking toad. But I got fan mail yesterday, so it’s all good.

Y’know, writers are pretty simple folk. A few appreciate comments, indication that our work is actually being read by someone, and we’re happy. Well, I’m happy.

A bestseller and a movie deal would be way nice, don’t get me wrong, but encouraging words of appreciation are really soul-nourishing.

Dragon*Con 2009

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As I predicted, when we got home on Monday, there was great collapse. It wasn’t quite as bad as last year, whereupon dude_the, fosteronfilm, and I sprawled in the living room in post-battlefield attitudes of death and mayhem. But it was close.

My voice is still stripped, but I did manage to keep it until Monday, which is an improvement over previous years (please, please nobody phone me for a couple weeks, K?). And I opted not to go into work yesterday, and subsequently slept for something like 16 hours.

Now playing catch-up on all the post-convention correspondences, write-ups, reports, and sundry communications that I tabled until after Dragon*Con. If you sent me an email that you expect a reply to, please give me a couple more days to get caught up. Continue reading →