some entries are just all about me

[truepenny]

Jeff VanderMeer ambushed me yesterday.

And speaking of Jeff, his and Ann's anthology, The New Weird, in which I participated, got a starred review from Publishers Weekly. w00t!

orrin likes The Bone Key, as does Sam over at Whatta Fiasco. (I'm both pleased and amused that no one can agree on what the best/worst stories in the collection are, although, yeah, "Listening to Bone" is the slightest. I could explain what it is I think the story is doing and why I still think it belongs where it is, but, you know, that defeats the purpose of telling the story in the first place.)

tangeriner likes The Virtu, ethereal_lad gets the nutcase mishmash of genres, and schnaucl thinks the series should be longer (an idea which, I have to confess, fills me with terror and ennui in roughly equal measures--I love these guys, but I am done).

Poodlerat has a review of A Companion to Wolves.

I've no idea exactly what this is (oh the wonders of the internet and its daily doses of wtf?), but some of you may know and/or be interested in it.

Shadow Unit will be updating regularly Thursday night and Sunday night; the first full story will be posted in exactly one month (February 18). There's an RSS feed for updates, also a message board, so I'm not going to mention updates here after this, except as the spirit moves me. It's my blog; I can be capricious like that.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, there is potentially a story about Cardenio Richey, Vey Coruscant's copy of Artemisia de Charon's Principia Caeli, and a serial killer in the Lower City, but the burner it's on is so far to the back that you'd have to be Inspector Gadget to reach it from here.

I want to play in other sandboxes for a while.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

That's understandable; it even happens to people who don't write. I remember talking with someone at my office who has thinking about taking a different assignmnet; he said "Of course, anything you try is likely to suck at some point, but I'm ready for some scenery that sucks in different ways. And there's always the chance that the new work won't suck as much or as often." Which should be read as a comment on his view of the world of work, not a comment on what you do, but yeah, I can see your point.

I, too, would like to know more about your man falling out of an airship. I won't know more until you do, will I?