In Shadows

Hope everybody who celebrated the holiday had a good one. Those of you who don’t, hope you had a good couple of days, regardless.

Thursday, ‘dinner’ was on the table by 10am. Spent the entire day munching down and watching movies. It was a mellow day.

I also finished reading Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate, and it’s sequel, Drag King: The Burning Dream. Good stuff, Maynard. Smitty rocks. It’s been awhile since I’ve read either, and I’d forgotten the quality of the writing. (My bad!) I just might have to buy the books. She’s a major poet in her prose with a heavy mystical bent that just flat out makes sense. Love it!

I was fortunate to meet Smitty a couple of years ago at the first Orlando Bardcon. She did a reading at a lesbian bar where we had a signing. She’s a sweetheart.

Friday was leftover day where we ate pretty much everything from the day before that hadn’t been finished. Nummy! Another day spent watching movies and reading. Rented … from Netflix. It was fun.

I also listened to my editor’s advice. I had picked up and put aside Lorimal’s Chalice by Jane Fletcher. Looked like a typical ‘woman from female dominated society forced into a male dominated society’ kinda thing. Promptly put it down before I’d gotten through the first chapter. (This isn’t the first time I’ve tried to read that one, either.) Cindy told me it wasn’t like that at all, that Fletcher goes in a completely different direction than what you expect. So I picked it up again.

DAY-UUUMM! I’m not even halfway through the thing and I love it! I really recommend it! (Oh, and Cindy was right! LOL!)

Today, just finished editing two chapters of Tiopa Ki Lakota. Tomorrow I’ll be working on the first meeting between brother Stewart and the strange Indian woman his sister’s gotten involved with. The end is in sight!