Busy weekend, but a good one!
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miladygreyYay for good things!
The vet says that Hector has gained half a pound in three months, his blood proteins are still elevated but much better than they were, and the irregular "gallop" rhythm of his heart has settled. The meds are working (even though the little twit still manages to cunningly spit one or both of his pills out now and then), and his next follow-up is in six months. He forgave Yeats very quickly for taking him to the vet, and spent most of yesterday curled up either on my lap or near me.
Dover Comic-Con was GREAT. Alas, we did not have Body Broker to sell, the publisher was lackadaisical about shipping copies and we will get them sometime this week. We did have four ARCs left, and so Yeats had them for display and for a sales deal--buy the complete Paladin trilogy, get a free ARC, and if they read it, review it on Amazon or Goodreads or wherever, and send him a link to the review, he'll tell his publisher, and the publisher will send them a finished copy of BB. Four people took us up on that! We had an awning this year, and came prepared with that and a cooler full of water against the blazing August heat. And we sold so many books--we sold out of Ordination and Stillbright, and only had five or six copies of Crusade left by the time a thunderstorm cut the last hour of the con short. And several people we spoke to last year stopped by just to say how much they enjoyed/were enjoying the books.
And!
The first Paladin series cosplayer! She is the Shadow of the Mother rather than specifically Idgen Marte, since Idgen Marte is explicitly a POC and this lovely person is not, but the cover of Stillbright was her inspiration, and she told Yeats she'd be happy to loan out the costume on its mannequin for other cons/shows.
And also, unrelated to anything, we are almost done with S4 of Schitt's Creek, and I 'ship David and Patrick with every fiber of my being, and spent last night enthralled by this fanfic. A Fair Return is Patrick's story, from the day he fled his engagement and his hometown all the way up to (I assume) the end of S5, with abundant and glorious and funny and erotic details of how he fell in love with David Rose along the way. I have only read the first four parts, because Netflix does not have S5 yet and I don't want to be spoiled, but it is so good. Patrick's slow realization of the fact that he's gay is painful and sweet and liberating, and his falling in love with David more or less at first sight is adorable, and every character is perfect, not just the Roses, but Ray and Veronica and Stevie and all the other townsfolk. And there is a thriving queer community in Schitt's Creek as well, and we get an explanation for that which I will not spoil, but it is delightful. Read it if you love Schitt's Creek! Watch Schitt's Creek if you haven't already!
Reading Log: Miles Morales: Straight Out of Brooklyn by Saladin Ahmed; Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton; Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch; The Riddle-Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia McKillip; The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson; Wilder Girls by Rory Power; The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The vet says that Hector has gained half a pound in three months, his blood proteins are still elevated but much better than they were, and the irregular "gallop" rhythm of his heart has settled. The meds are working (even though the little twit still manages to cunningly spit one or both of his pills out now and then), and his next follow-up is in six months. He forgave Yeats very quickly for taking him to the vet, and spent most of yesterday curled up either on my lap or near me.
Dover Comic-Con was GREAT. Alas, we did not have Body Broker to sell, the publisher was lackadaisical about shipping copies and we will get them sometime this week. We did have four ARCs left, and so Yeats had them for display and for a sales deal--buy the complete Paladin trilogy, get a free ARC, and if they read it, review it on Amazon or Goodreads or wherever, and send him a link to the review, he'll tell his publisher, and the publisher will send them a finished copy of BB. Four people took us up on that! We had an awning this year, and came prepared with that and a cooler full of water against the blazing August heat. And we sold so many books--we sold out of Ordination and Stillbright, and only had five or six copies of Crusade left by the time a thunderstorm cut the last hour of the con short. And several people we spoke to last year stopped by just to say how much they enjoyed/were enjoying the books.
And!
The first Paladin series cosplayer! She is the Shadow of the Mother rather than specifically Idgen Marte, since Idgen Marte is explicitly a POC and this lovely person is not, but the cover of Stillbright was her inspiration, and she told Yeats she'd be happy to loan out the costume on its mannequin for other cons/shows.
And also, unrelated to anything, we are almost done with S4 of Schitt's Creek, and I 'ship David and Patrick with every fiber of my being, and spent last night enthralled by this fanfic. A Fair Return is Patrick's story, from the day he fled his engagement and his hometown all the way up to (I assume) the end of S5, with abundant and glorious and funny and erotic details of how he fell in love with David Rose along the way. I have only read the first four parts, because Netflix does not have S5 yet and I don't want to be spoiled, but it is so good. Patrick's slow realization of the fact that he's gay is painful and sweet and liberating, and his falling in love with David more or less at first sight is adorable, and every character is perfect, not just the Roses, but Ray and Veronica and Stevie and all the other townsfolk. And there is a thriving queer community in Schitt's Creek as well, and we get an explanation for that which I will not spoil, but it is delightful. Read it if you love Schitt's Creek! Watch Schitt's Creek if you haven't already!
Reading Log: Miles Morales: Straight Out of Brooklyn by Saladin Ahmed; Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton; Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch; The Riddle-Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia McKillip; The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson; Wilder Girls by Rory Power; The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
