throw another bear in the canoe

If you are a popular blogger, or if you review things for something, Subterranean Press wants to give you an ARC!

The ARCs include:

New Amsterdam (Elizabeth Bear);
D.A. (Connie Willis);
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (Ted Chiang)
To the Dark Star (Robert Silverberg);
Dreadful Skin (Cherie Priest);
The Shadows Kith and Kin (Joe R. Lansdale);
Getting to Know You (David Marusek);
and You’re Not Fooling Anyone… (John Scalzi)

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Three ways to succeed as an entertainer:

1. Don't be boring.
2. Don't underestimate your audience.
3. Try to look like you're having fun up there. Hell: try to have fun.

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And speaking of fun, I've already been up for an hour and a half today, and shoveled out a pile of email I was ignoring.

I am virtupus! And now, shower and coffee and then back to the CEM for me. Yay, smutty wolf book. Yay!

Right.

That's the page proofs for Undertow and the CEM for A Companion to Wolves done. Leaving... the page proofs to Whiskey & Water.

Which means that this is the last time I will ever have to read that book, barring needing to look stuff up for sequels.

I kind of have mixed emotions about that. I mean, I loathe rereading my own work once it's in print. So I don't mind the not having to read it again thing.

But I am a little bittersweet about letting this particular story go.

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.

*sharpens the green pencils, makes a pot of tea, and gets down to it.*

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If you're new here, don't worry. This is how my brain works. It will absolutely fix on some element of narrative and worry it to death for a while, and then give it one last shake and snap its neck and on to the next obsession.

Sadly, I never give up on the old obsessions. They just layer up.

However, over time, this does begin to present the illusion of being a well-rounded person.

There's a reason I have this as my default icon.