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Cost of Silver synopsis 2.something has gone to Caitlin. Oof.
And I can't have a drink to celebrate because it is Happy Methotrexate Day. Bugger. Maybe I will eat a whole bag of salt and pepper flavoured potato chips instead.

Because I am nothing if not predictable:

Room 50 VPX
A special gift has been given in your name.
The gift of sight is the gift of light - and life.
To my tribe and the best workshop ever,
-Barbara
 
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A small gift can have a huge impact.
The gift given in your name will give sight to a man or boy blinded by cataracts. Restored sight means a father or grandfather can once again earn an income. A boy can go to school and see hope for the future. This gift of cataract surger through an Operation Eyesight partner hospital in Africa or India will result in freedome from a life of darkness and restored hope and dignity.


In other present news, I got a Kobo! Actually I got two, because both Mark and Chris decided to get me one, and only discovered the duplication when Mark picked Chris up at the ferry. So they tossed for who took one back. Chris was the one who taught me to use it, set up calibre and sent me info on dropbox, though.
(The menfolk are wrapping rippers, and I am a wrapping saver. They were saying 'Just rip it!' and I said 'I am ripping! I'm just ripping very carefully.')

The best present, though, is the lab results from Mark's biopsy in early December. Cancer-free. That piece of paper went under the tree, for the whole family.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!

Cardboard robot nativity scene

Is anyone going who would want/need/like to share a room at the hotel? 

First part of Cost of Silver was approaching 95k. I realised that if I was going to give the ECW its due weight in the second part, it would reach at least 80k, maybe 95 also. Emailed Caitlin, said 'there are two distinct story arcs, can I send you part one, so you can tell me whether to start  trimming or make it two books?'
She said yes, so that went to her on Friday, and now I am off to Pennsic. Where I will be mostlly offline, and working with pen & paper. Maybe take up the Maenads at Band Camp YA paranormal again. 
Left Longview WA at 1pm yesterday, reached Missoula, MT at 2am
Happy summer!

 
Our Living History Week, which used to happen over the Canada Day weekend, needed to be shifted. So it's moved to later August, and because some other group will also be at Fort Rodd Hill in later August, our week will this year exactly coincide with WorldCon.

Maybe 2015, then.

This morning Mark got the results of his biopsy after the surgery, and he is clear. Nothing cancerous in bladder or prostate. He still has to go in every three months and get rechecked, but he's bought a bottle of wine for dinner.

Cost of Silver, though, is still being slogged through in a slogging onward sort of way. Kipling's poem Boots comes to mind.

Since I don't suppose everyone on my friends list checks my blog *waves at Terri, my fanbase*, here's my writing-related news, a bit late:

'Bluebeard Contented', the Perrault-ish version, is up at Cabinet des Fees.

Archipelago made the shortlist (honourable mention) for the 3-Day Novel Contest, which means my entry fee for next year is waived. This is my second shortlisting in a row, last year's being for Culture Heroes. My certificate of survival came last week, with a sticky note saying the judges found Archipelago appealing and intriguing.

(I'm copying this from the SF-Canada list, in case anyone on my friends list hasn't seen it. - Barbara)

The deadline has been extended for the above award, so everyone can recover from the holidays and still get their subs in.

Also, until noon tomorrow, the Rannu Fund fee will be half-price as part of our 13 Days of CZP-mas promotion!

Details are here:

http://rannu.webs.com/

Also on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-CZP-Rannu-Fund-For-Writers-of-Speculative-Fiction/124677194255165

This award is open to any writer, of any nationality, at any stage in their career, but all subs have to be previously unpublished.

$500 each is awarded yearly to one prose writer and one poet. Submissions must be genre, i.e. science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.

$10 entry fee. All judging is blind.

(Website still says deadline is January 15, but it has been moved to January 31st.)

Do submit! : ) And spread the word!

Sandra


**ChiZine Publications' authors, staff members and interns are not eligible to apply for this award.**