some sales are good sales
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incandescensLet's see if I can try to get back to better journalling habits.
Trying to get book 7 started. So far I only have about 2000 words done. I'm trying to get back into the swing of it. I'd like to at least finish the first chapter before I need to go back to editing book 6...
The weather's moderately cool (though not at the level of snow yet, for which I'm very grateful). I took advantage of a sale at House of Fraser today, and was lucky enough to come away with flannel duvet covers and pillowcases (muted-colour check) and undersheets (dark grey) at half the usual price. It would have been even better if I hadn't had the grocery shopping to do afterwards and had to lug them around with me, but nothing's perfect. (I do already have some brushed cotton bed-linen, but I've had it for several years now and it's starting to get a bit battered. And hey, half price sale on good-quality stuff...)
Book 5 - The Mortal Word - comes out on the 27th in the US, and the 29th in the UK. I'm trying not to panic too much. The situation is complicated by the fact we're having an office move that week, so there will be chaos in abundance. But a coworker has promised to make me a cake for the 29th, so there will be sugar as well, which may help.
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So I went back to the Folly, which has the advantage of being both home and work at the same time. Guleed went home because she has, she says, a deep and mystical understanding of the work-life balance. A concept I once tried to explain to Nightingale with the aid of the big whiteboard in the visitors' lounge. I think he grasped it in the end, and said he was all in favour as long as I understood that this in no way applied to apprentices.
-- Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch
Trying to get book 7 started. So far I only have about 2000 words done. I'm trying to get back into the swing of it. I'd like to at least finish the first chapter before I need to go back to editing book 6...
The weather's moderately cool (though not at the level of snow yet, for which I'm very grateful). I took advantage of a sale at House of Fraser today, and was lucky enough to come away with flannel duvet covers and pillowcases (muted-colour check) and undersheets (dark grey) at half the usual price. It would have been even better if I hadn't had the grocery shopping to do afterwards and had to lug them around with me, but nothing's perfect. (I do already have some brushed cotton bed-linen, but I've had it for several years now and it's starting to get a bit battered. And hey, half price sale on good-quality stuff...)
Book 5 - The Mortal Word - comes out on the 27th in the US, and the 29th in the UK. I'm trying not to panic too much. The situation is complicated by the fact we're having an office move that week, so there will be chaos in abundance. But a coworker has promised to make me a cake for the 29th, so there will be sugar as well, which may help.
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So I went back to the Folly, which has the advantage of being both home and work at the same time. Guleed went home because she has, she says, a deep and mystical understanding of the work-life balance. A concept I once tried to explain to Nightingale with the aid of the big whiteboard in the visitors' lounge. I think he grasped it in the end, and said he was all in favour as long as I understood that this in no way applied to apprentices.
-- Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch
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Date: 2018-11-18 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-11-18 12:41 pm (UTC)Since I have nothing to offer for the release of Book 5, here's a hastily dashed haiku instead:
Chaos dissipates
When sight lights on the right tome
For its hidden truth.
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Date: 2018-11-18 11:56 pm (UTC)Fingers crossed that the book reaches you soon, and sorry for the delay.
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Date: 2018-11-19 01:20 pm (UTC)Speaking of the other thing, there's no need to apologise. One never knows with the vagaries of the post. Though entre nous, I should have known that talking/whinging about things meant it would pop up. Enfin, your book arrived this afternoon while I was asleep in my coffin. Mater received it on my behalf and gave it to me not long after I woke up after dusk gave way to night. Many thanks. <3
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Date: 2018-11-21 02:06 am (UTC)