Love is different than you would think.

Crusade is officially released into the world! We attended the release party this weekend in Bethesda despite the heavens opening up, and while attendance was lower than the last few years, due to weather and the release being in September rather than May, we still sang and danced and drank and applauded Yeats and his fellow authors. This may be the last release party we'll get to attend, as the publisher is about to realize his long-held dream of leaving the expensive area around DC and relocating to the Southwest. So we got a nice room in a nice hotel within walking distance of everywhere we wanted to go, smuggled some wine up to our room, and had fun.

Mostly fun. There was a complication. ( Cut for RL friend drama )

It's a rainy grey Monday, and I've already sent two small dramas over to Aveline, scheduled two more new consults for the coming week, and given Aveline a lift to the courthouse because her car won't start. I believe this earns me lunch.

Reading Log: An Unnatural Vice by K. J. Charles; Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst; Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone; The White Plague by Frank Herbert; Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley; Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy; Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey; Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie; Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli