Drowning Nor Waving

As authors are wont to do, kafkonia, matociquala, stillsostrange and I have started a group blog. Unlike all the other writer group blogs in the world, it is not about pimping our books, talking about being writers, or talking about the writing process.

It is about catwaxing.*

Do visit us sometime. *g*


*For the uninitiated, catwaxing is all the shit we do to avoid doing our damned work. Bear wrote an exegesis thereof here.

There is new Shadow Unit.

Go read that while I finish fixing up this scene. *g*

Tonight I am knitting and obsessively following political news, so I give you this for content:

ksumnersmith has set up an Etsy shop for some of her jewelery (and other things to come). I endorse this to the point that I commissioned a pair of earrings like the Nautilus ones, but green.

If you are gift-looking for people who like shiny things, these are things that are veritably shiny and meet and pleasing to my eye.

And now, I return to knitting and reading news with a 0.o expression on my face.

So once upon a time they took away the Hockey Night in Canada theme, which was, as the man says, A Part of My Heritage.

However, the upside to this was that the CBC is having the Hockey Night in Canada Anthem Challenge, which is I guess like American Idol for hockey themes. And high school friend lonicus, who is by day seriously up-and-coming composer for orchestra, film, game soundtrack, and stage Kevin Lau, has put in an entry.

Take a listen, and if the spirit moves you, give it a rating.

This ends this official pimping announcement.

(Yes, all my friends are awesome.)

(no, not the river.)

I have via time_shark this morning that Amazon has made Clockwork Phoenix available early -- it's not yet the official release date, but nonetheless, anthology! So it is available for your breathless acquisition right this minute, and I recommend breathless acquisition, as it contains stories by Catherynne Valente (yuki_onna), Cat Rambo (catrambo), Laird Barron, Ekaterina Sedia (squirrel_monkey), Cat Sparks, Tanith Lee, Marie Brennan (swan_tower), Jennifer Crow (kythiaranos), Vandana Singh, John C. Wright, Erin Hoffman, (zhai), and yet more after that. I quail to be surrounded by such awesome.

Incidental to this, Amazon appears to have created a community to talk about me since my name is one of the tags on the Clockwork Phoenix sale entry. This disconcerts me greatly, especially the "Leah Bobet" Customer Images section. I went and tagged the rest of the anthologies I have stories and poetry in, like a good little self-promoter, so it's actually a pretty decent list of the Amazon-purchasable stuff. Keep that in mind while you're talking about how I eat worms and wear silly suspenders on the Leah Bobet forum. *g*