Victory of Tissues

Lots of things happening on the writing front. Advance read copies for The Painted Man should be going out next week to reviewers and the like. I am very psyched for that. I also broke through my writer’s funk on The Desert Spear by skipping to another section and working on a different character, to what I consider excellent results. I would have kept on, but I just received the copyedits to The Warded Man, so I’ll have to take care of those first. Hopefully I will come back to the sequel with recharged batteries.

Of course, first I need to kick this awful cold I have. I have the person who gave it to me narrowed down to one of the 40,000 people I came within coughing distance of at NY ComicCon. Luckily, at that very meeting, the head of publicity at Del Rey snagged me an advance read copy of Naomi Novik‘s new novel, Victory of Eagles. I am sitting at home reading it while clutching my box of tissues.

Temeraire is better than chicken soup.

Had another MRI today; one of a half dozen in the last couple of years. This one for a (possible) torn rotator cuff. Too many side-planks and wheels in yoga class, I guess. After spending half an hour in a buzzing metal coffin, I headed over to the Brooklyn Diner for lunch, and sat not two feet across from a booth with both Jerry Seinfeld (no, he wasn’t eating cereal) and Colin Quinn.

I was tempted to go to Colin and tell him how much I loved Remote Control  while pointedly ignoring Jerry. Sadly, decorum won out and I left them in peace.

Posted on April 24, 2008 at 4:32 pm by PeatB
Filed under Life, Musings, Writing
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10 responses to “Victory of Tissues”

  1. I’ve got dibs on Victory of Eagles when you’re done.

    Posted by Myke, on April 24th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

  2. You’re gonna need to get in line behind two pregnant women.

    Posted by Peat, on April 24th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  3. I think trying to grab good reading material away from a pregnant woman might be as dangerous as holding a quarter up to her for proper scaling.

    Posted by Patricia, on April 25th, 2008 at 7:44 am

  4. Possibly, but we are easily distracted by chocolate.

    Posted by dani, on April 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

  5. Danger in my middle name.

    Posted by Myke, on April 25th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

  6. Well, crap. Spelling certainly isn’t my middle name. That’s for sure.

    Posted by Myke, on April 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

  7. It seems if you can spell Godiva, you’re in good shape.

    Posted by Patricia, on April 28th, 2008 at 7:31 am

  8. Or Lindt. Or Teuscher. Or Ghirardelli. Or Nestle. Or Cadbury. Or Hershey. Oooh, or Wonka! Or…

    I think I need to go lie down.

    Posted by dani, on April 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  9. What you need to do is have a baby. Get on with it.

    Posted by Myke, on April 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  10. Not before I buy stock in M&M / Mars!

    Posted by Patricia, on April 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am