Books Read in 2007

Carnival, Elizabeth Bear
Thunderbird Falls, C.E. Murphy
Miss Melville Regrets, Evelyn E. Smith
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah, Sir Richard Burton
Changeling, Delia Sherman
Girl Genius, Omnibus Volume I, Phil and Kaja Foglio
An Assembly Such As This, Pamela Aidan
Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris
To Ride a Rathorn, P.C. Hodgell
Deliverer, C J Cherryh
Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
Duty and Desire, Pamela Aiden
Unshapely Things, Mark Del Franco
Narbonic, Volume 4, Shaenon K. Garrity
Grey, Jon Armstrong
Time's Child, Rebecca Ore
The Margarets, Sheri S. Tepper
All Together Dead, Charlaine Harris
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (re-read)
Ilario: The Lion's Eye, Mary Gentle
Ilario: The Stone Golem, Mary Gentle
Hellspark, Janet Kagan  (re-re-re-re-re&c-read)
Undertow, Elizabeth Bear

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It's been a busy couple of days here in the northland. First, may I just say that, between kinzel  and I, we have seen quite enough of hospitals, doctors, and health technicians? We're caught right up and really don't need to see any more for, oh, the next couple of years. 'k? Thanks.

On Thursday, thanks to the recent number of Torrential Downpours(tm) we've experienced here in Central Maine, I removed the cardboard temporary plate from my car, rewrote the (now invisible) tag number, code and dates with waterproof Sharpie (which is exactly what the woman at DMV used, but there's only so much scuba time in even the best waterproof Sharpie), covered the whole thing in plastic wrap and screwed it back in place. I told kinzel  that this would insure the speedy arrival of the metal plates, and, sure enough, they were in Friday's mail. Had I only known, we could've gotten this over with weeks ago.

In addition to the Excitement of license!plates!, Friday also brought a drive out to Belfast to meet kinzel 's brother and his wife for an early lunch and family catch up. It was good to see them looking relaxed and tanned and comfortable, and I hope the trip back down south was more of the same.

Today's mail brought even!more! contracts for German editions -- these for Plan B and I Dare. We signed and initialed and got everything into an envelope so that it can go speeding back to New York on Monday.

In between all of the above, I have made copious notes and sketched in future scenes for Duainfey. This is, let me tell you, Something of a Relief. I thought I was never going to hit critical mass on this book. With luck and a tailwind, I'll be done the first draft by the end of August and have all of September to do the second/final. I love it when a plan comes together.

Progress on Duainfey

47,480 / 100,000 (47.5%)

Today's Special:
The rock was warm and slick against his skin, the salt breeze sharp as a slap on the cheek. Below, the sea assaulted the shore, its black surface picked out in the pale reflections of stars.