Crossposting over here from Wordpress is still broken, but given that I know there's been illness in the household of our fine Dreamwidth hosts, I can't exactly be impatient with them not having fixed that yet. So here's a catchup post for y'all just so you know I'm still around!
Posts I've made lately y'all may not have seen:
Gorgeous French romance covers ebook roundup: Latest ebooks I've gotten, prompted by my having seen a Courtney Milan giveaway on Goodreads for the French edition of one of her books, and holy crap the covers on the French editions of that series are lovely.
Faerie Blood and Bone Walker sale for the holidays!: What this says on the tin. Since I CAN, I have the ebooks of
Faerie Blood and
Bone Walker on sale for the entire month of December. They're available for 99 cents each on all the places I sell them, including my Square store. I'm also waiving the shipping costs for the print editions. So anybody who might want these books who doesn't have 'em already, now's a real good time to get 'em! Talk to me if you have questions!
Album review: Consolez-vous, by De Temps Antan: De Temps Antan, my second favorite Quebecois trad band, has dropped a new album! I am sad that André Brunet has left them, but am assured that new fiddler David Boulanger will do
just fine. Spoiler alert: of
course I like this album. André may be gone, but Éric and Pierre-Luc are not! Recommend for fans of DTA as well as people who might want to check them out for the first time.
In other news:
I did not win Nanowrimo, but I didn't really try all that hard to do so. Work continues very slowly on
Walk the Wards, and I'm about 55,000 words in on that now. There will be more work on this book over the holidays, and once January gets here I'm going to have a conversation with the same artist I engaged for
Warder Soul to do me some cover art.
I have a real rough plan in mind to try to get this thing done and ready to release by Norwescon, and to target
Warder Soul for release by next Orycon. We'll see if I can pull this off.
Dara and I have not yet seen
The Last Jedi. We will be seeing it on Christmas Day as our yearly "dinner and a movie" Christmas thing, so until that happens, I'm ignoring most of the Internet. You may however expect that as soon as I do actually see this movie, there
will be a lengthy reaction post. Stand by!
And for those of you who didn't already see me report this on social media, I can mention this since it's been reported publicly in the local newspaper: my day job employer, Big Fish Games, is getting sold to new owners. Our new incoming overlords will be Australian, a company called Aristocrat. All signs indicate that there should be no job losses as a result of this, and at least my immediate team is not anticipating a change any time soon in anything we're doing, so that's all good. I still have a certain level of background nervousness about this just because it's a significant change. But we'll see.
Mostly everything else going on in life for me right now is the same as for a lot of you, I think: just trying to make it through the political shitstorm that's life in the U.S. these days.
But I
have at least also gotten word that Le Vent du Nord, my
top favorite Quebecois traditional band (and current top favorite band in general!) will be coming to Festival du Bois next year. And now that André Brunet is part of this band, I'm extra excited to see them! Canadian friends, hope I'll get to see you then too!
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