• Book Club

    All right. Here’s the initial book club call for book nominations. Suggest a book you might like to read for the club–something you haven’t already read, preferably. On Thursday, the 9th, we’ll list out the options and take a vote.…

  • Cool Stuff

    I’ve been forgetting to mention that the first three Crosspointe books: The Cipher, The Black Ship, and The Turning Tide, are all available on Audible.com for your listening pleasure. I haven’t had a chance to hear them yet, but I’m…

  • Home

    I drove the whole shebang yesterday. I never plan to. I never plan not to. I just wait to see how things will be and how I will feel. So now I’m really tired. And sore. I need to get…

  • Aaaand back to MT we go

    Tomorrow we head back to MT. Should decent roads. Whether I’ll have to pull over and sleep is in question. I bought some Starbucks refreshers to see if they’ll help. Never had them before. And of course, don’t drink coffee.…

  • best of lists and authors

    I just ran across the B&N Year’s Best Fantasy List. There are two women writers on it. Now, I really don’t get this. Why are there only two? I understand that the other writers on the list were quite good,…

  • Book Club

    Okay, we’re going to do a book club. There are enough of us interested and anybody can join at any time. I’ve never ever done this before. I’m thinking that it would be great if we can find a place…

  • books you hate or can’t read

    Sf Mindmeld had a post on books that people hated (and why) or why they couldn’t read them. I thought it was fascinating. There are a fair number of books in the ‘classics” kind of area that I have not…

  • The first day of 2013

    Today we managed to get up at a semi-reasonable hour, eat breakfast, and head off to Silver Falls State Park just east of Salem. It was brilliant and sunny, and then fog rolled in and spears of sun traveled down…