Faith's Enclave News

wooowhoowhoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finished my short story for the anthology STRANGE BREW (with Jim Butcher as headliner).

I am celebrating!

One deadline to go, the rewrite of Skinwalker.

Vacation looms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Faith

Tea for us is a visit to Starbucks, curling up in a corner, and talking about writing, our carrers, travel for our books, signings, and also about the life of a writer -- our SOs, families, pets, etc. It is something relaxing that I do about 2 times a month. And it keeps me sane. It gives me an hour away from the desk. Away from the phone. I come away refreshed and ready to write, ready to see things (life, my WIP, problems, whatever) differently.

Now I'm ready to write. Whoowhoo! And at 4 PM I am meeting with a foundation grant person to talk about my new project. As if I don't have enough to do, I am thinking about this Traveling Writer in Residence Program for the fiscally challenged schools in my state.

Sigh...  Good day!

Faith 

What *is* the allure of smearing chocolate on Aunt Faith's T-shirt? it's not a new fashion. It's not pretty. But my darling four year old niece decided that the T was in need of embleshment. Several giggling, struggling mouth prints later, the four year old is happy. I'm messy.  The six year old assures me that we can leave her sister at home alone, go shopping, and buy me another one. And a present for the stay-at-home sis too, course. So I could know that the idea of shopping was all out of the goodness of her heart.

Sigh....

We did not go shopping. And -- at least chocolate comes out of T-shirts.  And white pants. And at least I got to read some in Pretender by C J Cherryh, 2007.

And at least they played well together today. I got 2/3rds of a proposal done for a new book. Now I am at home, comtemplating ways to relax.

It is 99 degrees outside. Hot bath is out. Wonder what, in the fridge, is cold and liquid. And at the moment I wish I still smoked cigars.

Faith -- who needs to relax

Writers are supposed to be creative in lots of ways -- which is really cool until the brain hits overload and starts shorting out. Today I am making a new kind of necklace using various colors of embroidery thread and Amazonite, an aqua stone, while I'm thinking about new weapons for my characters to use to kill Darkness. I need a new sword for Thorn St.Croix, my character in the Rogue Mage series. Something snazzy. I keep envisioning a steel sword (natch) with gold engraving and a gold plated hilt tipped with a yellow diamond. And a wicked-sharp edge. Snicker-snick.

And on top of all that, I am still surrounded by flowers.  Misty gave me flowers the other week and they are still in full bloom, as are two orchids.  And two other plants are about to bloom. I'm reading three books with the flower-surround and the jewelry making and the sword designing...

Brain overload.  Too may disparate images and thoughts. Blood and body parts and blooms and gems...and great new boots!
<grins>

Faith

Misty posted recently about writing about 8 personal random things. It's been preying on my mind.
...8 personal, random things?

1.  My new book is out -- new age fantasy, or dark urban fantasy, take your pick. Seraphs, book two in the Rogue Mage series. It makes my stomach hurt to think about it.

2. I just lost my editor. She went to another house and I'm orphaned.  Again. Sigh... 

3. I own orchids. Two of mine are in bloom and are stunning. And thanks to the gift of a friend, I have flowers all over the house this week. It is wonderful!

4. I want a pair of shiny gold boots and a new necklace to go with them. I'll make the necklace, natch, but not the boots.

5. The love of my life, Ren, remakes himself every 5 to 7 years and I follow along to see who he will be next. Right now he's a publisher. Not publishign me, but doing great work for other writers.

6. I read urban fantasy, dark fantasy, and paranormal fiction, along with hard sifi -- battle scenes all welcome.  Waiting for the new Vorkosigan novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. <rubs hands in anticipation>  And the new Honor Harrington book.  Yummy.

7.  I love doggerel -- campy-ier the better. I just posted one on MySpace and on my Yahoo! site that invaded my head and demanded to be put down for posterity.

8.  I love being a writer more than almost anything. It is one of the three the greatest gifts God ever gave me, to fill my head with stories and characters, to let me write them down on paper and have them make sense...and actually get sold to an NY house!  
Faith Hunter
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