Myth, the Universe, and Everything

I forgot to mention that my joint interview with a crew of urban fantasy writers went live on Thursday! You can find it at FlamesRising -- stop by and read the answers or leave your own!

The featured writers include Dakota Cassidy, Angie Fox, Max Gladstone (lyster), Mark Henry (mdhenry), Nancy Holzner,, amanda_marrone, Kelly Meding, Nicole Peeler, and Jeri Smith-Ready.

I'm delaying on my goals update for the week in hopes of being productive today. :)

My phone has been ringing and not getting answered. My e-mail is building up. I'm falling behind on my facebook games. I haven't blogged in a week.

I'd like to say I've figured out how this happens, but it seems to sneak up on me all at once!

I was out of town last weekend (Saturday through Monday) visiting family in Michigan, and it was really wonderful to see everyone. The cause was sad (my grandmother passed away after a long illness), but the memorial service was really beautiful, reminding me what an amazing woman my grandmother was. I'd forgotten that she used to call her granddaughters in the morning sometimes to let us know if the prisms she had hanging from her windows were making rainbows, or if we'd have to create some rainbows for ourselves that day. I'm thinking about getting a prism for myself to hang in my kitchen and think of her.

The trip sadly meant that we missed most of the Halloween festivities, but I do have a quick photo of me in my airplane-friendly costume to share.


(I'm posing with Anton Strout's books, as part of his Halloween costume contest. That's a bun in the oven on my shirt, in case you can't make it out.)

While on the trip, I read three review books and Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler, which is not only an awesome debut, it's an awesome mythie novel. (You can get a sneak peek here at Nicole's site.) In between catching up on work assignments (two down since I've been home!), I'm trying to get my library pile down a bit, as well as tackling my TBR pile. And also, there's writing to be done. It is November, after all, and I did say I'd write 30,000 words (and while I wrote four essays this week for a freelance assignment, I'm not really counting those toward the full goal).

Anyone read anything good lately that I should have on my TBR pile? Anyone make a writing goal so far this week? Inquiring minds (seen below) want to know!