Martha Wells

Still. Sick. I don’t know how I look, but I sound horrible.

Hoping to get the work started on the house this week. I’m afraid the toilet is trying to leave the upstairs bathroom for the warmth and comfort of the kitchen directly below, and I really don’t want this to happen.



Of Blood and Honey Giveaway There’s a giveaway contest on The Night Bazaar this week to win a free copy of Stina Leicht’s new fantasy novel Of Blood and Honey


If you’re a Texas resident, please take this Texas…

I’ve got another guest post up on The Night Bazaar: Avoiding Writing Scams, about a new writer who was actually trapped by a writing scam, back before Writer Beware and Preditors and Editors and all those other sites that warn about those kind of traps existed.

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Texas writer Melissa Mia Hall has passed away. She was a short story writer, poet, critic, and interviewer, and editor of the anthology Wild Women, which featured stories by Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Ursula Le Guin, Alice…

Thanks to everybody who commented on my previous post!

Today I have the sick, apparently. I’ve got a sore throat and some sinus symptoms, not too bad right now, so I hope it doesn’t get any worse. I had a doctor’s appointment Monday for a check-up and was in a crowded waiting room with a baby who had pretty much these symptoms, so I’m not hopeful. I have to go to the grocery store today and hope I can remember what all I need when I get there. I’ll try not to spread this through the store like…

What I just posted on Facebook and Twitter: The book is here! The actual book is here! HERE! Two boxes of The Cloud Roads arrived via Fed Express just now. WOOHOO!

I made beef stew last night and it turned out really well. I use a variation on this Food Network recipe, which is a variant of Julia Child’s famous boeuf bourguinon recipe. I use shallots instead of onions, added sweet red wine to the stock, and didn’t use the flour or the whole tomatoes.


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I have a lot of links today:

The big one: Night Shade Books announced a 50% off sale for all in stock and forthcoming books purchased directly through their site:

So for the next two weeks, from Monday, January 10 until midnight on Sunday, January 23, we’re offering 50% off all in-stock and forthcoming* Night Shade books, with a four book minimum order. Just use the coupon code 50NSB2011 at checkout, and we’ll do the rest!

This is everything, including my new book The Cloud Roads, not…

The new cold front hit, and we had freezing rain all night. It must have been freezing horizontal rain at one point, because it leaked in through a downstairs window that’s fairly well protected. I just hope I don’t have to go anywhere today.


I made my first guest post on the new blog The Night Bazaar: The Night Bazaar: the Road Here and it’s about The Cloud Roads, and its long and somewhat fraught road to publication. (Contains no spoilers for the story.) Some of it I’ve talked about here…

Posted a quote from the book I’m working on on FaceBook: “I do not understand how they can take a man away from his wife when he does not wish to be parted from her. Especially when his wife has such big teeth and claws.” #wip I’ll try to remember to do this more often.


I need to go to the grocery store and get all the things I forgot to get on Tuesday. It’s supposed to get down to the 30s next week, and I’m not looking forward to it. My bones ache, and our upstairs windows leak.


Carol…

Just checked the teefury shirt of the day: It’s a Tardis inside a Stargate. Of course I bought it.

I had a really good New Year’s Eve. I went to see friends in the big city, and we went shopping and ate a very good dinner (at a department store restaurant — I hadn’t seen one of those since I was a kid) and got home with only minor traffic weirdness. Then we watched movies until midnight, heard some fireworks, and that was about it. Of course, I woke up at 7:30 in the morning because I always wake up at 7:30 in the morning.

Last year was a really interesting year. It started out very…