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Books read in 2012
Thursday, January 5th, 2012 12:01 amPollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter (e)
Chimera, Rob Thurman (e)
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
PSA, State of the Rolanni, Leewit News & Random Kvetching
Thursday, January 5th, 2012 02:25 pmPSA: Several Concerned Readers have written privately; this is for those who may wonder in silence:
Yes, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the mass market edition of Carousel Tides by Sharon Lee will be in stores at the end of the January. No, I don't know why it's not in the publisher's catalog; I haven't seen the publisher's catalog, and don't write the publisher's catalog.
Thanks very much for your interest.
State of the Rolanni:
Ankle's still sprained. In technicolor. It hurts. Actually, all of me hurts. Also? I can't walk. To say that this does not make me happy is. . .an understatement.
. . .yeah. . .
Because of the fall, and the fallout from the fall, I've gotten behind on the very, very necessary daily quota of words for Dragon Ship. To say that this does not make me happy is. . .well, you know the drill.
The Leewit in the news:
As reported elsewhere -- It comes about that the original ASUS netbook software, otherwise known as The Leewit's brains, was not upgradable, and would not accept upgrades of on-board software. Steve has therefore very kindly performed a brainectomy, and The Leewit as of this writing has Linux Mint brains, which appear to be functioning just fine, thank you. Also, I get to dork around with the screen color, fonts and other preferences, which is soothing, in a playing-with-your-dollhouse kind of way.
Random Kvetching:
In the arena of Stoopid Amazon Tricks. . .
That check they sent me in error, after deducting the $15 fee for cutting a paper check, has arrived. It's for a total of!
Seventeen cents.
Now I know why they thought I might have some trouble cashing it.
Also! A couple weeks ago now, in the email transmitting royalties from Amazon to myself, was an instruction to sign into my Vendor Account at insertwebaddresshere, in order to view "all my information." I had never opened a Vendor Account, but I am nothing if not obedient to Amazon's every wish and whim, so off I went, in order to view "all my information."
Except that my password didn't work and I had no note of a password for this particular site, having never actually been there before and so I banged around until I found a contact form and wrote Support a message. Support wrote back, asking me to send the email that included the instructions, which I did.
A couple days later, I got a note from Support telling me I had to log into my account at Vendor Account in order to send them the requested information; correspondence sent by email to the originating address would not arrive. I ignored it. A couple days later? Same message. This morning? Amazon is closing the inquiry since I haven't logged into my account and provided them with the information they asked for. And they included in that letter a link to Did We Answer Your Question and Did We Fail to Answer Your Question. On the FAIL page there was a comment box.
Yes, I did relieve my feelings.
Coon Cat Logic:
Mozart is being so! very! pleased! about getting all this bonus time on the couch that I'm beginning to think he paid off Quiet and Louder to hose down the hill.
State of the Steve:
Steve is cooking, doing the laundry, washing dishes, tending cat boxes, and performing the occasional, necessary brainectomy.
. . .which kind of brings us full circle.
How's things at your house?
Yes, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the mass market edition of Carousel Tides by Sharon Lee will be in stores at the end of the January. No, I don't know why it's not in the publisher's catalog; I haven't seen the publisher's catalog, and don't write the publisher's catalog.
Thanks very much for your interest.
State of the Rolanni:
Ankle's still sprained. In technicolor. It hurts. Actually, all of me hurts. Also? I can't walk. To say that this does not make me happy is. . .an understatement.
. . .yeah. . .
Because of the fall, and the fallout from the fall, I've gotten behind on the very, very necessary daily quota of words for Dragon Ship. To say that this does not make me happy is. . .well, you know the drill.
The Leewit in the news:
As reported elsewhere -- It comes about that the original ASUS netbook software, otherwise known as The Leewit's brains, was not upgradable, and would not accept upgrades of on-board software. Steve has therefore very kindly performed a brainectomy, and The Leewit as of this writing has Linux Mint brains, which appear to be functioning just fine, thank you. Also, I get to dork around with the screen color, fonts and other preferences, which is soothing, in a playing-with-your-dollhouse kind of way.
Random Kvetching:
In the arena of Stoopid Amazon Tricks. . .
That check they sent me in error, after deducting the $15 fee for cutting a paper check, has arrived. It's for a total of!
Seventeen cents.
Now I know why they thought I might have some trouble cashing it.
Also! A couple weeks ago now, in the email transmitting royalties from Amazon to myself, was an instruction to sign into my Vendor Account at insertwebaddresshere, in order to view "all my information." I had never opened a Vendor Account, but I am nothing if not obedient to Amazon's every wish and whim, so off I went, in order to view "all my information."
Except that my password didn't work and I had no note of a password for this particular site, having never actually been there before and so I banged around until I found a contact form and wrote Support a message. Support wrote back, asking me to send the email that included the instructions, which I did.
A couple days later, I got a note from Support telling me I had to log into my account at Vendor Account in order to send them the requested information; correspondence sent by email to the originating address would not arrive. I ignored it. A couple days later? Same message. This morning? Amazon is closing the inquiry since I haven't logged into my account and provided them with the information they asked for. And they included in that letter a link to Did We Answer Your Question and Did We Fail to Answer Your Question. On the FAIL page there was a comment box.
Yes, I did relieve my feelings.
Coon Cat Logic:
Mozart is being so! very! pleased! about getting all this bonus time on the couch that I'm beginning to think he paid off Quiet and Louder to hose down the hill.
State of the Steve:
Steve is cooking, doing the laundry, washing dishes, tending cat boxes, and performing the occasional, necessary brainectomy.
. . .which kind of brings us full circle.
How's things at your house?
