Do not rain on my parade. No one has asked me to tour, partly because I do not have the Stephen Hawking cache needed to put people through the whole vocoder thing.

October rocks because I really, really want it to rock.

Reality can just step off.

Gus, sweetie, no one asked me to tour either, not for the first two in this series.

I did it myself. I made the calls. I put together a list of stores I thought would be good, where I knew I had people, friends, family, who would come out. After a couple of those, the stores start pinging you.

That's how it works. And October is good - when I say fall, I actually mean winter. You said you thought November is the good month and it really isn't the best, unless the book hits at once. If it does, you're in clover.

I have October. I like October. I write ghost stories and I get to premiere the damned things during Halloween.

Hmm. Minneapolis, Madison, and Milwaukee have some influential stores. I'm going to push some letters about "Mid-West author", and see if I can move a few covers.

Thanks for the tip, DG!

Insent, deb. Two hours to do another 3000 words? Heh.

ooof, deb, I sent the pre-spellchecked version. Should I resend? I dont want you to go blind.

Gus, Minneapolis has a huge scifi/fantasy community. Neil Gaiman hangs out there. Google it.

Allyson, I'm on it. Back with feedback shortly.

Allyson, you've got mail. And that's a damned good essay. These last two are, literally, my favourites so far. The time pressure may suck, but damn, woman, you're producing beautiful stuff.

It's writing while in terrible pain.

Next time I fall into some money, I'm buying a decent office chair.

Costco has superb office chairs. Mine's mostly taped together these days - bloody cats - but it saved my arse, not to mention my back. $100 at costco, high back adjustable arms, excellent lumbar support. It's no joke, especially not with the MS.

Kate sells me some Kinkaids - or Daymond's thing does what we all think it's going to do - I'm buying me an Aeron. My back loves those.

Meep. (fangirl)

Just been going back and forth in email with Bela Fleck. He's about to climb into Famous Flower of Serving Men.

(total and complete wibble)

Am going to ask for Kinkaids blurb. But BELA FLECK. I adore the Flecktones and Strength in Numbers.

Meep.

(Fangirl, no closure on tag)