good things

Over on Tor.com, as part of urban fantasy month, planetalyx has a post on, to quote the author, the "intersections between magic and technology in urban fantasy and ecofantasy"-- Text me that hex, please? Kthxbai! It's a good read. And later this month, look for her urban fantasy story "The Cage"--a very super fun baby werewolf story that will close out Tor.com's urban fantasy celebration.

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Sometime back I wrote about an unpubbed novel ms I'd read that I loved so much--and how I could not understand why this book, and later its sequel, hadn't been bought yet. Well, they have! Hurrah! Now I can say, these are the wonderful Martha Wells' books, The Cloud Roads and sequel, The Serpent Sea. And now you'll be able to read them, too!

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Some pics. First, a book my friend E gave me when visiting recently. It's one of the Andrew Lang books, the Red Book of Animal Tales, but a very old hardback edition, dated 1899, though I don't know if it's first edition. I have a bunch of the different color Lang fairy tale books, in the paperback Dover editions, but not this one. It's a beautiful book...

 

  

 

And some pics of the cats...Tinker was briefly determined to become a manicurist:

Scaramouche and Tinker inspecting the paper recyling...
 

And my glow in the dark kodama, also from recently visiting friend E: