The first half of my Norwescon con report is up at the blog! Alas I could not take an pictures or video so if you have any, please let me know: I’d love to link to or at least see the pics.

I just met Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz/Jayne Castle at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. *squeee!* See the fabulous Ms. Krentz on the SMB blog. She is very wonderful in person. *flappy hands*

I also got to hobnob with Nicole Onychuk who blogs about Romance books at Alpha Heroes and is a fellow fan of Ms. Krentz as well as mine (she did the photo blog of Underground’s real life sites in Pioneer square a little over a year ago.) And of course chat with the staff at SMB–which is always a pleasure. A very pleasant interlude indeed. Wheee!

Recently I received a note from a fan (whose name I’ve withheld to protect their privacy) commenting on my post “Not the Whole Enchilada” about why I have chosen to remain in the traditional publishing model with Penguin/Roc rather than go “indie” and self-pub on Kindle or other e-book platforms. The writer brings up an interesting issue and admits to some confusion:

… My confusion is about making your books available on kindle or any e format. It seems to me that publishers should make the effort to make their clients books available in every venue possible to further the career and success of the author. While you and the commenters on your blog covered personal preference at great length, none of you covered why your publisher does not automatically do so for all their clients. …

Additional data point: Jim C. Hines–whom I like and respect enormously–made the point in a very clever cartoon that, while the e-book issues are massively interesting and important to writers, they are mostly invisible to the average reader.

Read the rest on my blog.

has been posted to the Appearances page.

I’m blogging at the League of Reluctant Adults today about my guilty love of hitman movies:

Recently I was looking through my Netflix queue and trying to find more interesting things to watch. Netflix likes to make suggestions based on other things you’ve watched in the past and I was amused to discover… I watch a lot of movies about assassins, spies, criminal geniuses, and gormless crooks.And the quirkier the better.

Read the rest at the League.

I’m back on the boat!

It may seem weird to go from 90 square feet to about 36 square feet, but in the case of the boat, one of our goals is to move all our stuff out off the land-based storage and onto the boat so we are totally independent of the land if we want to be.

Read the whole post at the Blog.