November 28, 2010

Posted on | 1 year, 2 months ago, mid-afternoon | 4 Comments

What a long strange week/weekend it’s been. First, we had Thanksgiving, then we were treated to Mary Robinette Kowal on our couch Friday night – which was fun for me, but the circumstances were less than ideal for her.

Mary was stranded in Seattle following a comedy of errors involving her car … a comedy of errors which has only recently (as of this afternoon) resulted in her successful return home to Portland. Click that link above, visit her blog, and follow the hilarity for yourself. It’s kind of epic.

Bless her heart, she is truly cursed in the travel department; and frankly, I’m thanking my lucky stars that our vehicle didn’t randomly explode while she was accompanying me around town for errand-running. IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. And given the circumstances surrounding her trip back to Oregon, I find it rather amazing that it didn’t.

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In other news, I’d like to be out Christmas shopping today but noooo … that’s not in the cards. If I want to hand in these Hellbent revisions by December first, I need to buckle down and do the last of this frantic wrinkle-ironing while I have the peace and quiet of an absent husband and a cat who’s fallen asleep face-down on her catnip crabbie.*

Speaking of Hellbent – ’tis the sequel to my upcoming masterpiece of neurotic vampires, Men In Black, and Cuban drag queens … Bloodshot. You may recall that this epic tome of conspiracy, mayhem, ghouls, and glitter earned me my very first starred Kirkus review. (ahem)

Anyway, Bloodshot comes down the pike at the end of January – so you’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the upcoming weeks. But for now it’s Hellbent up the wazoo for yours truly, and I suppose I shall get back to it.

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* Yes, a small crab toy made out of cotton and stuffed with catnip. It’s her baby, and she loves it.

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4 Responses to “November 28, 2010”

  1. Mary Robinette Kowal
    November 28th, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

    I am also surprised that your car didn’t implode while we were out. I can only surmise that it didn’t because that would not have hindered my return home.

  2. Cherie
    November 28th, 2010 @ 3:55 pm

    Ah – excellent point!

    But FWIW, it was great to have you, and it’s always good to see you. You’re welcome anytime, though I do hope that henceforth, your travels are infinitely smoother. Surely you’ve built up the kind of travel karma that will see you ferried about upon clouds of angel wings for the foreseeable future …

    :)

  3. Mary Robinette Kowal
    November 28th, 2010 @ 9:15 pm

    Well, at some point I have to come up to retrieve the car. Maybe we can plan something then.

  4. Cherie
    November 28th, 2010 @ 9:45 pm

    Ha! Good point.
    [:: plots ::]

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