Grants Pass Party and Other Pimpage
22 Aug
Things are a little wild here (in a good way), but due to settle down Sunday. The good thing about that is that when I open my Thunderbird RSS feed there’s always something new and fun to read. The bad thing is that I’m really behind on email. Still, I just wanted to drop by and point out a few things of import that went on this week.
-I read Cate Gardner‘s The Sour Aftertaste of Olive Lemon too fast because I couldn’t stop. I had to go back and do it again slowly to savor the infamous aftertaste again. This is another one you definitely want to snag if you can. I can’t say much without giving the ending away (that’s always a good sign, too), but it’s lovely and strange and the most singular mix of defiant and sad. Find it here.
-We can now pre-order Strange Publications’ 52 Stitches. If you’ve not been reading them as they come out, you’re missing out– but that’s all right, sometimes things are just better printed on paper and held in hand. You’re a purist, I can tell.
-The Grants Pass launch and signing party happens tomorrow afternoon (well, technically tonight, but you know what I mean), Aug 22, in good old Washington State. Being in the other Washington myself, I don’t get to meet up with these fabulous people and pretend to be fabulous by association — but for details hit up the lovely Jennifer Brozek’s LJ.
There will be cake. And plague. Well, not real plague, but a book about it. So Plague Cake– who could refuse?
You can order Grants Pass from Morrigan Books here. My story is called Boudha, as I’ve no doubt mentioned here repeatedly. It’s about a girl in a predominantly Tibetan Buddhist neighborhood in Kathmandu, the one in which I did a lot of growing up once upon a time. One of those places you never really leave. So anyhow, there are monks. And… er, also plague, actually.
In completely unrelated news I got a new computer. It’s really beautiful and makes absolutely no sense, being a Vista machine. But I don’t care because now I can finally play The MMO of My Choice with reckless abandon– which is to say without blue-screening the thing. Or at least, I’ll be able to once it finishes updating in three years.
Happy weekend, y’all!
It’s a great story. Buy the book and read it people!
I can’t wait to read Grants Pass. You must be buzzing on the ceiling with the release of this one.
And thank you for the pimpage and for reading Olive’s story twice.
Cate’s book is in the post and I can’t wait to read it. I think a copy of Grant’s Pass will be a future purchase too.
As for the MMO, are we going to lose you to WOW? I’ve got a mate who started playing that two years ago and I hardly ever see him now!
Hi Katey! That’s a whole lot of pimpage goin’ on. And thanks for sharing the plague…
And thanks for the linkage to the photos. Trip down memory lane. I should really scan and post my India, Pakistan and Kathmandu pics on Facebook one of these days.
This is the kind of pimpage that won’t land you in detention.
Maybe you can hook up some kind of “virtual presence” for the Grant’s Pass party with the new ‘puter.
All good news! Congrats on the launch – you’ll be there in spirit.
Amanda, thanks! The editors are pretty rad too
Cate, me too– I’ve not seen any stories but mine, but the reviews have me buzzing. Exciting!
Mike, I recently lost my brother to it– I understand. But I’ve been playing Lord of the Rings Online on and off for a few years and I’m pretty good at regulating. Thing is, sometimes it’s just therapeutic to kill some orcs.
Alan, always happy to share the plague. And yeah, me too– I thought about scanning some of my old KTM photos in for the pimpage, but with the new computer it’s a pain in the backside. Nothing’s installed yet!
Good, because no one likes detention, do they Aaron? Wooo!
Jeremy, thanks man. I like that– I will be there in spirit. And print, which is kind of the same thing, right?
I love monks : )
I once saw one in a Best Buy. Ying says he was probably there for batteries.
Or new toys, yeah. A lot of the monks I knew were really into electronics. One Lama had us in for a talk and wanted to show us his portable DVD player on which he was watching Star Wars first. He was awesome.