Off to Catch Up

I'm taking off today to catch up on some work. See you tomorrow.

Pass the Catchup, Please

As I mentioned last week I'll now be spending Sundays reading and replying to comments -- see you in the threads.

Off to Do Lots of Stuff

I'm going to give myself the day off to regroup, write, and catch up on things. So that your stop here was not entirely wasted, I thought you might like to check out something strange and beautiful that I discovered this week:



This is a photo of a Jabuticaba tree, a native of South America, which bears fruit on its trunk. I'd never seen or even heard of this tree before I started poking around Kuriositas.com for some info on a chapel made from a lightning-struck tree (that's another story) and found this post about it.

I know, it doesn't have anything to do with writing. Or maybe it does. Either way, I love strange fruit.

Image credit: ign11

Off to Play Santa

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Off to Catch Up

I have a couple hundred e-mails, comments and other stuff in the do-this-right-now-you-ninny queue. Since Tom refuses to impersonate me, I really have to bail on you guys today and catch up before everyone thinks I've gone total divasnot on them.

Three posts out there you might check out when you get a chance:

If you're thinking about joining a critique group, definitely read Alison Kent's Genreality post on pros and cons.

Author Marjorie M. Liu includes yours truly's Scribd freebies in a nice list of online free reads. *Note 9/3/10: Since Scribd.com instituted an access fee scam to charge people for downloading e-books, including those I have provided for free for the last ten years, I have removed my free library from their site, and no longer use or recommend using their service. My free reads may be read online or downloaded for free from Google Docs; go to my freebies and free reads page for the links. See my post about this scam here.

Over at Southern Fried Chicas, our blogpal Raine Weaver has up some interesting views from agents on the ongoing economic impact on Publishing and what that may mean for writers.

And now I'm off -- see you tomorrow.