New icon, errands, and Harry Potter

One of these days I think I shall have to upgrade my number of userpics, because it's starting to get harder to choose which ones to swap out when I make a new one! I just finally whipped together an icon for book posts, based on an Arwen base by underdark_icons:



(The text says "girl just needs a good book".)

In the meantime, I went down with solarbird to run assorted errands this afternoon, picking up groceries and Christmas lights and such. It's been an otherwise uneventful afternoon.

Yesterday was somewhat more eventful, as Dara, spazzkat, and I went to go meet mamishka, darthhellokitty, kingchiron, and one other person I don't think I know to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at the Cinerama downtown. Picoreview: I liked it well enough, and there were one or two bits that were genuinely creepy, which is in keeping with the story getting darker and more complex as its target audience gets older. I have a quibble with the ending, though.

( Spoilers back here... )

Sunday miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 514.1
Miles out of Rivendell: 56.1
Miles to Lothlórien: 405.9

New reads

( The Fortune of War, by Patrick O'Brian )

( Queen City Jazz, by Kathleen Ann Goonan )

New agent at Firebrand

Several of you on my Friends list already read agentobscura's journal, but for those of you who do not, she posts that Firebrand Literary has taken on a new associate agent, Lauren Barnholdt.

Quote: "She's looking for Middle Grade/Young Adult (any kind, but especially girl-centric), Women's Fic and Chicklit, Humor and a distinctive voice are a plus. [...] You can contact Lauren at lauren[at]firebrandliterary.com -- In order to keep her client list small, Lauren is not currently accepting unsolicited submissions. If you'd like to be considered, please send her a e-query letter about your project. If she's interested, she'll respond and request a partial or more material."

Full details can be found here. So if you write the sort of thing that Firebrand is looking for, you might consider giving Lauren a shot!

(cross-posted to scuzzboppers)