A lovely gift arrived in today’s mail, even though it’s not my birthday.
Charlaine Harris sent me the ARC of Chris Golden/Amber Benson’s Ghosts of Albion:Accursed. w00t!
I’ve already pre-ordered at Mysterious Galaxy, but want an inscribed copy, so I’d have had to wait until Chris and Amber sign there much later in the month. Now I have a copy to read ahead of time. ::g::
I <3 my enabler friends.
A bit of synchronicity:
I was reading some of my rss feeds today via bloglines and discovered a mention of an author advance survey by Tobias S. Buckell. The post wasn’t anything new, but I liked his style so decided to link up his blog to my feeds.
A post from earlier today mentions alg‘s LJ and recommendation re: a book. Now, she doesn’t know this, but I met her a couple of years ago at an MWA symposium. We both were wearing the exact same style of glasses. At the time, I hadn’t yet sold Matters to a publisher and was hoping to submit to her. For one reason or another, it never happened, and Matters was sold to a different publisher.
I read her post, and lo and behold, who’s name do I see bandied about but pearl_o‘s! In investigating, I also find that she’s friended engenda and girl_clone.
I’ve just friended her, because, dude, her interests include Callum! and she thinks Claudia Black is tres hot, which, yeah.
Back when I saw her presentation at the MWA event, I couldn’t get over how much she reminded me of me when I was younger (attitude and a bit in the looks, but she’s much cuter). I’m thinking that her being a Callum fan just cements it. ::g::
Like I always say, small freakin’ world.
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Twins under your skins.
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She looked intriguing when I visited her journal.
Will check in on her LJ again, although lately I’ve been trying not to friend more people due to difficulty in reading my flist as it is.
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It’s funny how things like that work, isn’t it? I’m always running across people I have friended in one filter commenting on other people’s LJs in a completely different filter and, even though I half expect it now, it still always makes me smile.
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Let me know if this is something I should buy.
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Yay on Charlaine and sharing happiness. I’m hoping our signed GRAVE SIGHTs arrive here at the store before I leave San Diego for AZ tomorrow…