Woot!
Big huge mega congratulations to my brilliant and talent crit buddy Chris who won the Romance Writers of New Zealand Clendon Award last night! Mucho champagne and choccies for her!!
Mel’s tip of the day
If you happen to buy a new computer and import your stuff across and use Curio, then remember to save all your projects with all the assets embedded before you copy them across...otherwise you might just have a heart attack the first time you open a project and half...
Done
One revision completed. Yay. I've discovered that for this sort of layering, tweaking, polishing pass (rather than one where I'm still adding wholesale chunks and slashing and moving) that being able to sit for a few days solid and do it all is better. I can hold the...
Worth a look
Lois McMaster Bujold's Denvention Con Com Guest of Honor speech about romance and SFF and genre stuff amongst other things. In other news, Anne Stuart is going to write more historicals. Also, for Melbournians...there are three cool things coming up at the Dymocks...
Hope
Melbourne has apparently remembered it's Winter...the last few days have been cold, cold, cold. It even snowed yesterday. Not here but in Melbourne. But this morning I found this on my tree.... Spring is on the way : ) (not that Spring in Melbourne necessarily means...
Re-visions
I have my revisions from Miriam so I will be off pondering and reworking for a while. Nothing too major (yay) but there's some stuff to chew on. Dixie chicks, here I come (unless the girls decide they want something else entirely). To entertain yourselves while I'm...
There’s no place like home (or at least your own pillow)
I am back and the trip home was uneventful. No delays, a reasonable amount of sleep on the flight and the person picking me up from the airport remembered to turn up. I'm a bit tired, seem to have a mountain of laundry to do and have the requisite long flight puffy...
Monday monday
The very last day (sob sob). I started by doing the BART thing back out to Oakland to see my friend again (more mutual trying to persuade each other to move or, at least, vacation more often). Had a fabulous breakfast at the Blackberry Bistro, so if you're in Oakland...
Saturday and Sunday
Yesterday was the big day, the GH/RITA awards ceremony. Sadly it was not a good night (in the ultimate winning sense, it was a great night in the 'squee we have lots of fabulous finalists' sense) for the Aussies and Kiwis, none of my buds are coming home with pretty...
Friday
Am I the queen of imaginative blog post titles or what? lol It's even more confusing when I'm posting this on Saturday here in SF but blogger thinks it's Sunday as my time zone is set to Australia. Hence the boring title. So Friday (btw it's quite warm here...
