Fellow travellers: When discarding your sex toy at the airport, please remember to take the batteries out *before* you throw it away (I mean, come *on* this is vibrating sex toy 101, people). Thank you. via Bent Fabric
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Wouldn’t this just be the perfect end to the perfect fuck-up? Go democracy!
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Yellow just came into my office and dropped off some close-out documents. He set them down and burst into a rendition of Ice, Ice Baby. I love working working here.
Amanda over at Mousewords pointed me to this Today Show clip that is… downright laughable. You know, I’m a year out of college, and I’ve never used the term “hook up.” Amanda rants a lot better about this than I’m about to, so check out her rant here. Yea, teenagers and young adults have sex.
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Was sick most of the weekend, which meant I stayed in bed and finished reading a bunch of books that I was reading concurrently. So, finished Kim Chernin’s The Obsession, Nick Mamatas’s Move Under Ground, and Sharon Shinn’s The Shape Changer’s Wife. Short review would be a) old but base book about anorexia, half of
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Working on line edits the rest of today. Also, I’ve started outlining a stand-alone fantasy novel about a female bounty hunter looking to get a lordship. She’s going after the Queen’s brother, who’s killed their father, in a society of shapeshifting mages where non-magic users are considered a seriously deviant underclass. My Heroine is, of
Just got a nibble from one of the NY agents. The secret is to keep rewriting your query letter again, and again, and again. The more the query looks like the inside flap of a China Mieville novel, the better. Seriously. Sending 50 pages. Let’s see what happens with *this* set…
When I was 12 years old, I told my friends and family that I was going to go live in a little cabin in the woods in Alaska and write books. I ended up in Alaska a lot sooner than I thought I would. I bought a one-way ticket to Fairbanks (from Portland, OR) when
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I get nervous when I hear my boss on a conference call, talking about the 22 agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. I really don’t want to work on a project for those people (hello, DHS browsers!).
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