Sunday, April 17th, 2011
I am cleaning my studio today, and amongst all the other questionable artifacts tucked into dust-covered corners (spools of fishing line? a Ouija board? a May 1999 NYC subway map?) I found a pile of old photos & I thought I’d scan a couple to share.
So this is me in New Hampshire circa 2004, with an apple and far too much hair:
And this is me in South Boston circa 1980, with a fabulous hat:
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
There’s a thick layer of foam padding on the bottom of the box. I hope she doesn’t expect that to be a standard cardboard box feature from now on.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
I’ve had this window up all day to compose some sort of blog post, but I’m having one of those days that doesn’t want to fit in words, so I just ran around my studio/office and found odd little things to show, instead. A picture is worth a lot of words, or so I hear.
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
A few days ago I felt like I had nothing to write about and now I have a bunch of things, so I’ll spread them out over the course of the week and possibly into next week depending on how distracted I get. Excuse me, I have to get Tessa off of the scanner.
Okay, scanner is now kittenless. Today’s proper topic now that we’ve passed the misbehaving kitten interlude: photos!
Last week I had a photo session with the marvelous & talented Kelly Davidson for my author photos. I’d contacted her awhile ago about doing them but we had to work around schedules & a whole lot of snow.
We had a wonderful time despite the cold when we braved the treacherous icy sidewalks & the photos turned out fabulous, of course.
The one that’s going to be the official shot is now hanging out on my about page, and here’s a peek at a few of the others:
(The best of the umbrella shots will likely show up somewhere in the future, so for now it shall remain a secret.)
I highly recommend Kelly if you’re in the Boston area & need a photographer for any reason whatsoever. (Also, you should peruse her photostream, her recent photos from Paris are gorgeous.)
And I’m still impressed that my hair stayed mostly well-behaved.
Unlike Tessa, who is now on the printer. Sigh.
Monday, January 31st, 2011
I was going to write up a list of things that were making me happy despite the impending snow, like Downton Abbey and Dashiell Hammett novels.
But then I cut my hand in a feat of particularly impressive clumsiness, making it rather difficult to type.
So here are some recent photos of the kittens. I’m going to go hide until the Year of the Rabbit gets here.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
It’s still cold.
It’s still snowing.
The little birds sitting on the back fence seem fairly content and well-fed, though.
I am more or less hibernating.
By “hibernating” I mean that I am wearing fuzzy sweaters when I can get Tessa to stop napping on them, drinking warm beverages, burying myself in research, and writing something that is not yet novel-shaped.
Now Tessa is sitting on the sweater that I’m currently wearing. Joy.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
We have snow. Again. Lots of it.
I went to take some photos out the back door and Bucket got curious.
She’s usually not the curious cat type, so I was impressed that she actually took two whole steps before retreating back inside.
More snow photos over on Flickr.
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
You may have seen me on Twitter bemoaning the fact that I only received one book as holiday giftage. (Technically, I got two. I received one after the bemoaning.)
Obviously, two is still not enough books. So despite the sorry state of my to-read shelf, I bought myself some pretties.
I have coveted the Coralie Bickford-Smith-designed Penguin Classics since I first saw them, so this is the beginning of what I’m certain will end up being a fairly large collection. They are so pretty, and there are so many classics that I’ve really wanted to own but lost the beat-up high school English class copies years ago. These are much better.
(Also featured in these photos is one of the marvelous bookends my sister gave me.)
I already want more because they don’t fill the whole shelf, even though the elephant is doing an admirable job of keeping them upright. And I’m annoyed that the Fitzgeralds don’t seem to be easy to find in the US, because they are swoon-worthy.
I had been planning on posting these today, so I was amused when they turned up on Doubleday’s Tumblr today as well. And then I turned up on Doubleday’s Tumblr, too. Hee.
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