Headlines hit closer to home...

Down various paths, I have heard a horrible rumor -- that SF writer Michael Bishop's son Jamie taught German at Virginia Tech, and that doesn't sound good, with the terrible dark story being written as we move through our lives.

Whether this is true or not, there are spirals of people who will be grieving for a long time to come. It's time to set a match to a candlewick, folks, and ask for more light.

Oooo, a new Sherwood Smith book coming out!

It's a new YA in the same world as CROWN DUEL. The book is SENRID and is coming out from YA Angst books. (Yes, that's the imprint!)

Take a look.

Because today we need a few smiles

Meet a useless cat, and smile. Perhaps they are diplomats negotiating?

Pinched from kristine_smith

Not grasping the concept.

Nice review for Suri!

Publishers Weekly gives Laura Anne Gilman's fourth Retrievers novel a nice review. Here's a link through her agent's blog:

http://arcaedia.livejournal.com/113763.html

Go, team! (Hope this makes Paris sweeter, girlfriend -- )

So, how's your English?

I've seen portions of this list, but never this much, and have no idea who wrote it. It's posted at this site:

http://bertc.com/english.htm

I was pleased to find out I got almost all of them (and finally learned how to pronounce those Muses -- we'll see if it sticks) but Islington I've never been positive of, and what is this?

Foeffer

As in close to the buddy of the Grey Mouser? Feffer?

Bev, fun for your kids (but not at first!)