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Le Vent du Nord Plan B is GO
Because I am damn well going to see some Le Vent du Nord SOMEWHERE this coming weekend, I have now enacted Plan B: going to the Victoria show on Saturday night! Advantages to this plan: Dara is coming with me so I’ll have oodles more fun anyway Dara and I have never been to Victoria…
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No Le Vent du Nord symphony show after all 🙁
Y’know, there’s NEVER a good time to find out that your current favorite band has just had the show you were aiming for cancelled out from under them. But “while you are at a science fiction convention trying to a) promote your work and b) assist with the music programming and c) HAVE FUN” is…
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Blogging at Here Be Magic today!
Hey folks! Surfacing from Norwescon long enough to report that my very first contribution to the Here Be Magic blog has gone up today! I’m being relaxed and groovy, and talking a bit about Valor of the Healer as well as Faerie Blood, and mentioning a few of the ways I’m shooting for equality and…
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Imminent Anna sightings!
For Seattle-area locals, hey, I’m going to be at Norwescon! Not in a professional writer-type capacity, but I WILL be there, and I’ll be easily found providing assistance to Dara during the music concerts! And just in case anybody wants one, I will also be bringing my few remaining print copies of Faerie Blood. And…
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Internets, I give you my new author pic
At the day job this afternoon, my team’s having a little party for our lead dev’s birthday! The theme is mustaches, so there are cookies and cupcakes with mustaches decorating them. And they brought in fake mustaches (the box for which was helpfully labelled EMERGENCY MUSTACHES, y’know, for all your whisker-impairment needs) for all of…
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (German notes)
And now, last but not least, the notes for Chapter 10 of the German edition of The Hobbit! Which are rather shorter than the French notes, but then, my grasp of German is still rather shorter than my grasp of French is these days, and I’m still not having those a-ha moments where I get…
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This is what the inside of my head looks like
There are days where I wish I could draw, sometimes. Because I have a picture in my head I’d TOTALLY draw if I had the time, and I’d be calling it ‘The Many Fandoms of Anna the Piper’. There’d be a version of me right in the front with a Great Big Sea shirt, bouncing…
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (French notes)
This post is the French notes for Chapter 10 of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read! Spinning the French notes off into their own post because um, yeah, they got kinda LARGE. Notes for the German edition will be in a subsequent post!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 10 (General notes)
Been a bit, but now, getting back to it, let’s do Chapter 10 of The Hobbit! Objectively speaking, not terribly much actually happens in this chapter. We’re basically talking the following chain of events: Bilbo and dwarves: *float downriver to Laketown* Bilbo: *gets dwarves out of barrels* Thorin: “I am Thorin Oakenshield! KNEEL BEFORE ZOD–”…
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Hey look, I made a MUSIC!
Internets, I cannot tell you how much I needed to forget dealing with computers for a couple of hours, and go play me some music with the local Quebec session crowd. We had a pretty tiny group tonight, and things were relaxed and groovy–all the better for a newbie player like myself to try to…
