Words Written: ALNM Ch6 670, Ch5 edits
Writing Stats: Mailed “What Price Beauty” to Son and Foe and “What Dragons Prefer” (reprint) to Escape Pod.

Cat Scratch Fever is up on the New Releases page at Fallen Angel Reviews!

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Our local SCA group’s Herbal Guild met today to make largesse and other goodies. I finally learned how to make lavender wands! [bounce bounce] I also made bath salts of rose petals, rose geranium, and rose oil; and of rose petals, rose geranium, lavender, and lavender oil. The house already smells good, and I haven’t even unpacked the stuff yet. I can’t wait to take a bath… I’ve posted pictures here. I also made a third wand, wrapped with green ribbon, that isn’t shown. I just had way too much fun!

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Had a long talk with Ken tonight. I miss him, dammit. We’re trying to arrange a way for me to get up to Sequoia for a weekend ride in two weeks. Then he’ll be back down here in a few weeks for three Styx concerts. Meanwhile, it’s looking more promising that he’ll have to go to the UK to broker the purchase of another machine, probably in autumn. I am so there. I’m already compiling research of where I want to go this time: mostly east coast and York. (Note to UK friends: No promises on any of this yet. Once we have confirmation, we’ll let you know!)

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In other news, after buying several copies (mostly unheard except for online snippets) for friends, I finally got myself a copy of the CD Mirror Mirror by Lorraine a’Malena. Lorraine is Neil Gaiman’s assistant, and Malena was the host of Thirteen Nights of Fright that Neil co-hosted a couple of years ago. The two women became fast friends and discovered a mutual love of goth and folk music, as well as corsets, and the rest is history. Neil wrote the lyrics to a number of the songs on the CD. Great music, too!

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Currently Reading: The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb; Treat Your Own Back, Robin McKenzie
Lately Listened To: a bit of VH-1 Classics
Recently Watched:Murder in Suburbia