I don’t do short stories while writing a novel, with rare exception—-Seeking North will be easy to maintain; but…I had promised to do a bit for Janet Morris for a Thieves World piece; and a bit for Janet for Lawyers in Hell; and I have a debt of honor: Poul and Karen Anderson were two of my most frequent convention buddies in years past, and there’s an anthology in Poul’s honor that I’d been asked to do a piece for. Karen chimed in to ask me personally—well, so I’m in midstory on other projects. For Karen, yes. I will. I am. So that’s getting done; I’ve done the TW bit; and then I’ve got an outline for the LIH project, and THEN I get to putting together the next novel, which will probably be another Bren book, while I’ve still got all the moving parts in order. Meanwhile we’ve got the kitchen cabinets in, and are drawing a bead on the bathroom tilework. And it’s warming, which will mean we need to assemble the portable greenhouse and look at the yard.
But it’s still cold as the hinges of you-know-what out there, so we’re ok.
Meanwhile I’m sitting here with pain patches on—dunno what’s got me so sore after skating today, but I am. Hope I’m not coming down with something…I haven’t time!
*holding my thumbs for everything to untangle, in a good way*
at our age these pains come and go don’t they! after an escapade on sunday, rescuing a little muntjac deer from my lurcher (a small whippet bedlington cross, about the same size as the deer) which involved leaping/climbing a 4 foot double thickness timber, wire and barbed wire fence, running across a tufty grassy paddock, over a sheep fence and 50 yards up another grassy field I have some weird stiffnesses – could just be loading the kiln yesterday though … hope yours go away quickly! perhaps it’s just a reaction to all that work staring you in the face ….
• “Going” crazy? What’s this “going?” Aw, enjoy the trip, I hear ppl should enjoy the crazy….
• Votes yea and yay for more Thieves World and Lawyers in Hell is a fantastic title. Also, I’d vote for more Chanur as a given, or a new book otherwise, besides the.new Foreigner idea… If only because it’s going to take ages, lately, for me to read through all 12 or 13 current Foreigners, not counting the two not yet published. (Oh, such a terrible fate, “forced” to read lots of books!) Yay also for Seeking North.
• I hope you feel better soon.
Bluecat, I envy you, coming upon the Foreigner series at this late date – what a luxury of pleasures is in store for you. It reminds me of when I first found Patrick O’Brian – he had written only about ten of the books at that time but knowing I had such a huge backlog of wonderful reading in store for me gave me a reservoir of happiness that did not dissipate until I caught up with him. Unlike you, I read Foreigner when it first came out and have had to wait for each next book with the keenest of anticipation. It is a happiness of course to look forward, but a more edgy, less comfortable one than knowing there is always something good to read out there.
Beautifully stated, dear Kokipy!
Lawyers in Hell? The comics will have a field day with that title! Related in format to HEROES IN HELL? As in group of characters from history that might or might not be related in time? I’m not thinking shared world. Just groupings of people. I’m also remembering how many US Presidents were lawyers. It came up in a discussion at work, and I found a listing of prior professions.
Agreed with mmberry – Lawyers in Hell will get a good going over by the media and the bloggosphere. Heck, I want to write something about it, and all I know is the title.
Wayne
Off topic, but thought you might not know…’Regenesis’ made #8 on the Hyper Hundred best Scifi novels of 2010 -woohoo! 🙂
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/The-Hyper-Hundred-best-scifi-novels-of-2010-15850.php
hooray!
Yay us!
Congratulations! 🙂 😀 😆
Going stir crazy down here in the Okies. DH truck can get out but my car can’t and I really hate relying on him for transportation. Freezing rain tonight and more snow tomorrow. Yuck!
I owe three papers and I’m organising a special session at IJCNN. I’m also putting together four grant proposals, and I’m waiting to hear whether I get promoted to Reader. Madness…
Wait. It’s WARMING?? Wow….we’re still buried in snow in the eastern half of the country, with more on the way 🙁 and getting mighty tired of it. The high temps forecast for the rest of the week don’t even reach 20 degrees and the lows are all single digits. The pretty pictures in the plant catalogs are still a dream…
Our mid-winter thaw seems to be over. It’s been going up in the forties for the last few days. Just enough to melt the snow and make about an inch of water over ice. Makes it fun to get out my 1/4 mile driveway. Without 4 wheel drive I’d be stuck. At least the ice dams and icicles melted and fell down in huge chunks. Supposed to go down to nine tonight with wind, which is already picking up. The yard will be a skating rink. Meanwhile the petunias and impatiens I am wintering over are blooming like crazy. Intimations of spring.
we are now having an ominously warm february in the UK (in the south), having had the coldest December on record, or for 100 years, or whatever. there’s a primrose with a flower out in my garden, birds are singing, and I haven’t had to light the wood stove in my pottery shed for a few days.
Primrose in February…jealous! We have light snow this morning in KC, it’s 3 degrees F with windchills at -10, and the hellebores are buried under last week’s 12″ snowfall. They should be blooming soon, and the crocus may make an appearance by month end. Looking forward to coldframe updates, CJ!