Laura Anne Gilman @LAGilman@mastodon.social
Writer, editor & wine nerd; cat-herder, amateur traveler & professional nap-taker.
http://lauraannegilman.net
http://patreon.com/LAGilman
Warning: my posts are a random mosh of US politics, writing stuff, wine stuff, and cat stuff. Plus whatever I'm on about at the moment.
I am powered by caffeine. Often a LOT of caffeine. ☕️
a reminder: I'm now at https://raggedfeathers.com/@LAGilman
*snicker* I just described an instance as kind of like a house party, connected to other house parties so you can talk to them without their elbows spilling your beer...
For folk following me here, I'm more active over on @LAGilman
40,000 words off to its beta-reader (hope she's braced herself). Goal: get the next 10K done before she gets through that, so we keep momentum...
All of my beta-readers are already busy beta-reading other stuff, a lament in 11,000 words.
The bathroom is spotless and the laundry is done. I have now used up all my available life-functional displacement activities. Probably should get to work, then.
Tonight, I hung out with 20-somethings, 30-somethings, 50-somethings, and 60-somethings, all of varying political affiliations. And we all bonded over booze and 80's music.
We CAN find common ground. I promise. Even if it's just the B-52's.
Migrated over to raggedfeathers. Hopefully this forwarding thing works. If not, same name, new instance, so you know where to find me....
So yeah, I just fell down the #research rabbit hole of discussion of cattle breeds and the cost of sheep imported by British settlers to America. Did I time-travel back to my senior year of college?
2nd carafe of coffee before 9am. I should just accept that this is the New Normal for 2018 (and basically harkens back to the Old Normal of 2013 - bye, relatively mellow half-decade, it's been fun having ya.)
Taking the Elder Cat, Boomerang Fool of a Took, FKA "Cat of Size," to the vet for his glucose curve and TSH testing. Pray for me now and in the hour of our yowling... https://mastodon.social/media/TtuSt_rBXDaqM9Ich0Y
Pretty sure Henry Holt sent the White House a "thank you" fruit basket on publication day. It was all sour lemons and bananas, but it's the thought that counts, right?
#MostOftenSaidInOurHouse: "...what are you doing, Cas?"
Typically followed by "damn it, Cas."
I've (finally!) updated the Devil's West pages with all the pre-ordering info for RED WATERS RISING I have to-hand! Plus, my take on what the cover copy should be...
http://www.lauraannegilman.net/whats-in-print/devils-west/red-waters-rising/
Juggling projects again.... thankfully, they're all dissimilar enough that they don't leak into each other. Much. 😶
from this morning's #WiP:
"...I let a tendril of current rise, slithering a static-y path up my spine and down my arm, until it reached my fingers and pooled beneath the pad of my thumb.
Grace shuddered. She didn’t know why, but she knew there was something too close, something that wanted to hurt her.
It’s amazing what our lizard brains know."
Under the heading of "that's unnerving AF," I have two friends named Dale and they both died unexpectedly last week.
If you know a Dale, please go hug them for me?
Sometimes you have to faff about and let the subconscious engines run for a while before anything good gets close to happening.
Will admit, I'm torn between the good manners/basic humanity of not mocking the mentally ill, and mocking the hell out of our unstable potato of a president.
Petting needy feline, sending work emails, sitting in on skype'd board meeting, chugging coffee to stave off a sinus headache. How's YOUR Saturday?
