Three Things That Are Making Me Happy

[dr_pretentious]

My son trusted me to hold onto the acorns he collected on our evening walk.

My patio is a veritable tomato plant forest.

Rachel Olivier reviewed Closing Arguments and Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply, and liked a lot about them.

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Nice reviews. Will be ordering the second.

[spindlewand.livejournal.com]

Nice reviews. I shall have to take a look.

Pursuant to something you wrote recently about writers having to promote themselves, I saw an interesting blog last night by a woman who clearly is doing just this. Her style is not mine, but I thought looking at her "campaign" might yield ideas which could be mined and adapted. Of course her book is non-fiction and she is a journalist, but still, like I said, ideas to be mined... http://marileestrong.blogspot.com/

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

Can you pass along that that blog (puttputtproductions.com/blogetary) is full of hacked-in pharmeceutical spam? (View source, look for very long line of "chucktvblog".)

I would comment there, but I suspect drive-by comments that even mention pharmeceuticals wouldn't get a lot of credence.

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

Nice review. I plugged your book in a panel about Paganism at 4PiCon. We had a good time there except for the nocturnal baby.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And if you're interested and don't already have one, we can lend you our copy of The No-Cry Sleep Solution.