This is an absolutely brilliant idea. I love it.

I have this painting I made forever ago, and I was just trying to decide what to do with it. I may have just found the solution.

Gov. Schwarzenegger was pretty adamantly opposed to it in a Meet the Press interview they ran this morning.

'Do you support it?'
'No, I think it's a waste of time when there are much more important things to spend our effort on. I personally think marriage is between a man and a woman, but who am I to deny someone else? It's a shame that people are putting money into this when there are much bigger problems like the economy, immigration, and global warming.'

Thanks for linking this!

We thought Will and Kit's Bogus Journey wasn't due out until next week, on my birthday (which made it a very fine present indeed), but last Tuesday we went out bookshopping for the birthday of our very fine friend Lenora, and there it was, Ink And Steel by Elizabeth Bear!
Needless to say, we bought it.
Needless to say, I started reading it before we left the store.
Unfortunately, for reasons you are aware of, I am reading slowly and having trouble focusing, so the girls aren't going to get it until July 1 as originally expected. They almost got it sooner, though. I had to set it down a long time when I read of the death of the beloved son of the absent father.

You could have warned me, Beautiful Bear, not to read this one right away. You could have said, nonchalantly, anywhere "You who've lost a child recently might hold off on this one, until it has faded a bit". You could even have warned me, specifically, "Chris you should skip Ink and Steel for now and track down a New Amsterdam instead, or reread Jenny Casey." But no, you had to just rip out my heart, devil woman. It's a good thing I love you.

Anyway, hidden away in a post about something else that'll probably generate few comments and so hopefully won't spoil anyone, my first review. Thank You. Best Book Ever. And I still have eighty pages left. Even if it made me cry, dammit.

*hug*

By the way, Amazon still says 7/1...did my local bookstore fuck up?

You are a bad bear. A bad, bad bear.

You shall have to be Spanked.

:D

I don't actually KNOW any history of these people, you see, because I am lazy.

Err... sorry; feel a bit of a dingbat for not mentioning this earlier; am hoping mentioning it now is not Too Late...

One wonders if the fabulous auction might be combined with the recently-mentioned storage problem, so that, say, some of the books you were thinking of signing and selling off might be auctioned off instead?

Seriously wishing I had my "economic stimulus" check already so that I could cackle madly while spending it at Live Long and Marry,

JD