I'm in the middle of reading The Grand Tour which is the sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot AIFG!!!

Also, here is why you don't want to get on the wrong side of a writer (from Wizard News.com):

RUMOR: J.K.'S SECRET REVEALED: GILDEROY IS HER FIRST HUSBAND JORGE ARANTES

J.K. Rowling has revealed that vain Gilderoy Lockhart is the only Potter character based on a real person. Although she does not name him, on her website she gives several clues that the real Lockhart is her first husband, Portuguese journalist Arantes.

I read Caroline Stevermer's A Scholar of Magics over the weekend, and I loved it. I have a dim memory of first hearing it recommended over here, so to whoever may have suggested it, Thanks! Now I get to go find everything else she's written. Yay!

Calli -- that would include Sorcery and Cecelia and The Grand Tour which she wrote with Patricia C. Wrede.

I'm especially looking forward to The Grand Tour .

Thanks, sumi!

I'm in the middle of reading The Grand Tour which is the sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot AIFG!!!

Gah! It's out?! Must have now now now!

Yes! It came out earlier than expected! I thought it was coming out in September and instead -- I have it now!

I just placed a purchase suggestion for it through the Seattle Public Library website. Which probably means tomorrow some poor overworked librarian will open her email, and think, "Not that Susan W again, with her incessant requests for obscure books on the Peninsular Wars for her silly novel that we have to track down for Interlibrary Loan from random collegiate libraries, and always making us buy any books her little author friends write."

Now, now -- this is post-Peninsular War, I'm sure that will make ALL the difference.

At least I think it's set post-Peninsular War -- you know, because the British are making Grand Tours again.

Yeah, it's been so long since I read Sorcery & Cecelia that I can't remember what role, if any, Napoleon played in their version of the Regencyverse.

I've just gone from never using Interlibrary Loan or making purchase suggestions to doing one or both several times a month. I'm all, "Hey, library! You get my tax dollars, so you better put them to work. I want obscure out-of-print memoirs of the 95th Rifles, and I want them now! Not to mention this erudite analysis of the Siege of Badajoz. And WHY have you not ordered any copies of Marianne Stillings's debut book? People! She's a LOCAL AUTHOR." So I'm picturing librarians hating me.

My current favorite library thing is the fact that I can put books on hold from home, and they just show up at my branch! EXCEPT: I was there today, and I saw a book on the counter that I was pretty sure was for me, but I wasn't sure and didn't ask, so of course I just got the notice that it was mine after all. Ah well.