Writing Maternity

recent projects

Squiss has written her first full-length story.  (And, I'll note, it's a blended genre: part story; part newspaper [as she called it]; part comic book.)

And Tricksy has started drawing figures.  The one below is from a couple of weeks ago, and is one of the earliest.  It's of "Mama and Papa" and is, I'll freely admit, much more exciting in full color.

aw, shucks

Last summer I wrote a review of a book in a relatively new-to-me subfield.  I taught myself a lot in order to do a good, and I was pretty pleased with the review once I finished it.

It came out in the most recent issue of the journal -- we got the TOC a couple of weeks ago by email, and then the hard copies arrived this morning.

This afternoon, I got an email from one of the editors of the book, thanking me for the review.  Specifically, thanking me for having really paid attention, and for having understood what the book was trying to do.

Which is quite possibly one of the most satisfying professional compliments I've gotten.