Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 235

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The one day a year I’m especially glad to have green eyes. I am not so glad about the drunken shenanigans, but it’s better than New Year’s, right? Right?

Anyway.

The kind and gracious folks at Cover to Cover Books, where I occasionally volunteer, have given me permission to do something awesome.

If your life is not complete without a signed and personalized Demon’s Librarian, you can now get one from Cover to Cover. If you live in the continental US and don’t mind media mai

I’m on the last push of revisions today, so this will be short. No, I’m not disappointed in the revisions. It’s something else.

I’ve found out that a fan I know (by name, even) has been uploading my work to a file-stealing site. (It’s not file-”sharing”. It’s file-STEALING, dammit.) It’s disappointing and hurtful to see a fan who claims to love my work uploading it to sites where people can steal it. It’s going to be awful hard to pay the rent if people continue stealing this way. Already this we

Cross-posted from Deadline Dames, where there is a fiction contest and tips from a contest judge up this week. Go take a look!

Two quick things today, because there is a certain birthday party I must be prepared for. It’s not anyone’s birthday, but we’ve scheduled the party today, which works out well for all concerned.

Right now I’m reading John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, the book the Tribeca-award-winning movie is based on. The premise is good, the story is tightly-interwoven and s

So Shiva the corn snake is burrowing and hiding, probably to cope with all the unexpectedness of yesterday. The UnSullen freaked out last night because he couldn’t find the snake, but I put my foo down and told him to go to bed and leave the damn thing alone. This morning he changed the water in the vivarium (daily water changes are necessary) and lo and behold, there was Shiva. Right where I said he’d be. I suspect once we get a climbing branch for him, he’ll hang out on that and stop burrowing

We are now the proud owners of Shiva the baby corn snake. Shiva is a lovely terracotta reddish, with redder spots and a black and white houndstooth checkerboard on his belly. He was brought home from the pet store and settled in his new vivarium, where he ran laps several times, looking for escape routes, and finally settled in the water dish. Now he’s half-in, half-out of the water dish, just kind of hanging out and observing. We watched him run his laps and get settled, all of us rapt with won

No, it’s not so fine sometimes. But when it’s good…well, then it’s the best.

Back soon.

I’ve finished the first pass of revisions for SA 2, and now I’m embarking on the second, more fine-tooth-comb pass. So, erm, I’ll be back in a bit.

Last night I took the Princess (who wishes to be referred to as Astronomy Girl from here on out) to see Coraline. She absolutely loved it, and if she is Good (and when is she not? Both my kids are very, very Good) I will buy her the book and maybe introduce her to some other Gaiman. (Suggestions welcome. My favorite is American Gods, but I’m told I’m

To whatever gnome boobytrapped the espresso machine this morning: uncool. I’ll be looking for you as soon as I get caffeinated. And when I find you, you won’t be comfortable. (Note: I am aware that this gnome might hide for a long, long time and may, in fact, be invisible. This does not overly bother me. Contemplating the revenge I will mete out is the point of this exercise.)

So the very last vestiges of the Cold From Hell are fading slowly. This last weekend we had the Ask A Working Writer even

Great news! The Demon’s Librarian is now listed on Amazon and on BN.com! Huzzah!

I am ultra-excited. Can you tell?

Cross-posted from Deadline Dames, where we had “Ask A Dame” this past week. It’s more fun than cats plus helium balloons, go check it out!

Since I’m currently moving like a little old lady (I’m in the body-aches section of the Cold From Hell) this Friday’s writing post is going to be shorter. I poked through the Ask A Dame questions and none of them really set me on fire, though a few of them did give me springboards into other things to think about. But I’m probably going to blaze my own path to