Lilith Saintcrow

Hey, y’all. First, Janet C., your books are signed and will be mailed today. Isn’t our local indie bookstore WONDERFUL?

Now…the news! I’m going to be at the Sci Fi Group Signing at Cedar Hill Crossing Powell’s on Thursday, Nov 20 (that’s tomorrow) at 7pm. Other awesome folks like Barb Hendee, Timothy Zahn, and ZOMG my buddy Devon Monk are going to be there. Much fun will be had by all, so come out and see me.

And…ORYCON! This should take you to my program schedule. (Note that the Friday reading has, however, been canceled. Sorry about that.) If it doesn’t, go here and choose me from the drop-down menu to see what I’ll be doing while I’m working at the convention. (Jeff S., how about that drink? *wink*)

I’ll be doing a signing, and I’m hoping that it won’t be like other signings where a tumbleweed could roll across the non-line in front of me. I don’t ask for huge lines, but a couple of people would be nice. *grin*

Anyway, if you’re there, come see me at Orycon! It’s bound to be a big ol’ ball of fun. While I’m preparing for the signing and getting my wordcount in for the weekend ahead of time, I don’t think there will be a Friday writing post. I may throw an old one up there, because there’s lots of older ones I read and I think, huh, that’s true. Forgot I wrote that.

Such is the life of a wandering writer.

Anyway, it’s time for coffee. And for the coolest news of all–yesterday the nice FedEx lady stopped by and gave me an ARC of Strange Angels, my first YA due out in June of ‘09. SO EXCITED. Next year will be a good one, with a couple of books that I’m really proud of (like Redemption Alley and, yes, SA) premiering.

Man, I really like my job some days.

Back to the old wordstone…

PS: Tami, they were just regular ol’ chocolate chip cookies.

I’ve got a whole lot to get through today, so here’s my old standby, the Bulleted List!

* The last chapter (except for the Epilogue) of Selene is up!

* Sheila Simonson will be at the next Writer’s Mixer at Cover to Cover Books, October 4 in downtown Vancouver. Sheila is not only the author of the best Regencies ever written, in my not-so-humble opinion, but she’s also a wonderful person and has more writing experience in her little finger than I have in my whole BODY. If you’re in the area, come by!

* Fantastic news: Maggie Stiefvater’s Lament goes on sale today! I adore Maggie like a puppy adores her kibble.If you’re looking for an awesome YA faerie read, why don’t you give Lament a try?

* For those of you who asked, the new pump-driven espresso maker here at Casa Saintcrow is a DeLonghi.

* Ilona Andrews tells it like it is about series, writing more than one series, and starving to death on Ramen.

* Why Sarah Palin is an Aunt from The Handmaid’s Tale.

* And for the gold, swoosh, nothing but net:

When you don’t have enough regard for your country or its politics to cram effectively for the test — a test that helps determine whether or not you get to run that country and participate in its politics — I don’t feel bad for you.

When your project is reliant on gaining the support of women whose reproductive rights you would limit, whose access to birth control and sex education you would curtail, whose healthcare options you would decrease, whose civil liberties you would take away and whose children and husbands and brothers (and sisters and daughters and friends) you would send to war in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and wherever else you saw fit without actually understanding international relations, I don’t feel bad for you.

I don’t want to be played by the girl-strings anymore. Shaking our heads and wringing our hands in sympathy with Sarah Palin is a disservice to every woman who has ever been unfairly dismissed based on her gender, because this is an utterly fair dismissal, based on an utter lack of ability and readiness. It’s a disservice to minority populations of every stripe whose place in the political spectrum has been unfairly spotlighted as mere tokenism; it is a disservice to women throughout this country who have gone from watching a woman who — love her or hate her — was able to show us what female leadership could look like to squirming in front of their televisions as they watch the woman sent to replace her struggle to string a complete sentence together.

In fact, the only people I feel sorry for are Americans who invested in a hopeful, progressive vision of female leadership, but who are now stuck watching, verbatim, a “Saturday Night Live” skit. Rebecca Traister, in Salon

All I gotta say is, amen, sistah.

Look at that monster linkspam. It’s going to be tomorrow before I get to the mini-reviews, but I promise you they’re coming. Right now I’ve got a huge showdown with hellbreed, a dead hostage, and a voodoo queen to throw at my poor protagonist.

Catch you on the flip side, Readers.

Psst! Wanna read a free serial novel?

Readers of the Dante Valentine series will remember their favorite Nichtvren duo, Selene and Nikolai. Plenty of you wrote in wanting to know more about them. Well, back when I was writing for AnotherChapter.com, I did write a book about the deadly duo, illustrated by the awesome Andrzej Karwacki.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, Orbit and I are offering the book for free in serial form. Chapters will be posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And did I mention it’s free?

Selene

Life isn’t easy for a sexwitch. Even your own body betrays you. It’s bad enough that Selene is part slave to Nikolai, the Prime Power of Saint City, but she’s got her brother Danny and she’s got her job at the college. In the postwar wreckage of an uncertain world, it’s pretty much all she’s ever allowed herself to want.

Enjoy! Comments on the chapters are turned off for obvious reasons, but there’s always the Saint City Street Fair, which has a forum just for Selene.

Enjoy!

I think–now I’m not absolutely sure, but I think Barnes & Noble is shipping Hunter’s Prayer now. It’s odd, but usually Amazon is the first to start shipping.

If you can verify whether or not BN’s shipping the book, can you let me know? I’m just curious.

Yeah. Nail-biting curious. That’s all. I’m not, you know, ATTACHED to knowing or anything. Course not. Me? No way.

*grin*

ETA: My local indie bookstore tells me the distributor’s got it. They also say that they’ll be happy to mail signed copies for cover cost plus reasonable postage. This is the bookstore I volunteer at, so they can have me in to personalize books too, if you’ve got a hankerin’. Come to think of it, they stock pretty much all my books except for the Anna Beguines; so you can probably get a signed copy of just about all my books.

Well, kind of. The Breaking Dawn Release Party made the Olympian, and if you look in the sidebar, you’ll see that I’m judging a Vampire Costume Contest at the party, as well as signing copies of Night Shift.

So again, if you’re in the area, come on by the Black Lake Blvd. Barnes & Noble to celebrate the release of the final book in Stephanie Meyer’s excellent series. There will even be cake and a fortune teller, and my friend Jeff Davis will be there with his Pacific NW ghost guides and copies of Weird America. All in all, it’s going to be a blast. I hope I’ll see you there.