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Remembrance Day, 2011

Sarah — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:28:02 +0000

Guest Blog at The Henderson Files

Sarah — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:35:05 +0000

Today I’m guest blogging over at The Henderson Files, Patty Henderson’s indie publishing blog. Patty designed the covers for Rymellan 2, The Salbine Sisters, and Threaded Through Time, Book One. I talk about why I decided to release Threaded Through Time, Book One as an eBook only (at least initially). You can read my guest post here.

On another note, I’ve ordered a new computer, and it looks like it’ll arrive sometime next week. This computer is getting a little long in the tooth for gaming, so I’m looking forward to the new computer’s arrival—and dreading it. I’ll have to transfer a lot of files over to the new system, including email. On the bright side, it’ll be a fresh start. The new computer won’t be cluttered with stuff I haven’t used for a while, and I’ll finally be on Windows 7.

Next week I’ll send the September Rymellan story, called Convergence, to my editor. I’ll also finish the first draft of Threaded Through Time, Book Two. Then it’ll be good-bye, or rather, “See you in the basement,” to this computer, which has served me well.

I used this computer to write all the Rymellan stories except the first three, The Salbine Sisters, Threaded Through Time, the Sapphic Signs story, and a couple of other projects I’ve never talked about and haven’t published. I’ve also published four books, responded to countless emails, written every post for this blog, and spent thousands of hours in my favourite game worlds.

It was gaming that drove me to buy a new system, mainly so I’ll be able to enjoy The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim in all its glory when it’s released this November. If I only cared about email, Word, and surfing the web, I wouldn’t need to replace my current computer just yet.

Maybe I’ll write next week’s blog post on the new computer; maybe not. It’ll depend on when the courier shows up at my door.

Have a great weekend!

Random Video Day #3

Sarah — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:03:40 +0000

Toronto is sweltering under a heat wave. Even though we have central air, it still feels warm in the house. Not a day for long blog posts.

Here’s a not quite so random video for a Friday. Stuff like this gets me every time:

Enjoy your weekend!

Happy Holidays!

Sarah — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:23:52 +0000

Ah, Christmas Eve, the calm before the storm (unless you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping!). Christmas Day is a quiet day for us. We always spend it with two close friends who are pretty much family.

Then the madness begins.

I have a small family: my parents, two siblings, and four nieces/nephews. My partner’s parents have passed away, but she has four siblings, 15 nieces/nephews, and 17 great-nieces/nephews. We’ll see all of my family and a fair number of her relatives over the coming week.

When I do manage to snatch some quiet time, I’ll want to relax. I won’t get much–if any–writing done, so I won’t update the WIP page next week.

The chances I’ll post next Friday are slim, so . . .

I hope you have a lovely holiday season, and I wish you health and happiness for 2011.

See you next year!

Random Video Day #2

Sarah — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:52:44 +0000

A friend posted this gem on Facebook. The clips in the video define the term “close call,” but unfortunately the final clip was staged. My cynical side suspected as much when I viewed it on Facebook, and the comments on YouTube proved it right.

Have a great weekend!