I'm going to be doing a day-long interactive interview and Q&A at Bitten By Books tomorrow (Thursday, May 28). Five lucky people get an Amazon gift certificate and a puzzle! Be there or be... umm... haunted.

I just love this... the question was "What is it about writing you enjoy so much?" (over at the Ravenous Romance magic bus tour.)

Inara LaVey: It’s the ultimate power trip. “I created you, I can destroy you! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!” Plus it’s just plain fun.

A woman after my own evil heart.

My darling buddy Dana Fredsti is kicking off the blog tour for the Ravenous Romance Ornery Eleven today at her blog, Zhadi's Den. If you like your romance hot, hot, hot, it's the place to be this weekend.

The blog tour schedule is near the bottom, so be sure to look all the way down... you know where.

Today is my last day blogging for Penguin. Here's the beginning of the final Kat-Blog (click the excerpt to read the whole thing):

"Where do you get your ideas?" There's a question many writers dread. Not because they order them wholesale from a warehouse in Schenectady, as a famous SF writer once quipped, but because ideas aren't the hard part. Not really. Ideas are like breakfast cereal; there're more than I can possibly consume in a lifetime, but the real trick is finding the ones that don't go soggy and getting my procrastinating backside into a chair and my fingers on the keyboard often enough and long enough to turn them into a story-meal worth serving up.

And today has already been interesting. I'm within a few thousand revision words, plus 3-6k new words of plot wrap-up, climax, and punch-out on the Novella, and since Jim's going to be shooting things that go "boom" in Idaho this weekend, I expect to be done by Tuesday (including the spell-check, clean-read-through and proof.) Maybe overly ambitious, but it's better than the alternative--considering I've asked for extensions on this one twice. Usually I don't.

Happy, happy!

Good heavens I've been busy the past 24 hours! Lemme see:

1. Ran an errand for the fabulous Richelle while she's out of town--props to Express Mail and Ballard mail-guru, Guy (that's his name, not his variety.)


2. Took ferrets to the vet and discovered all sorts of little problems that need meds--many thanks to the incredible staff at Eastside Avian and Exotic!


3. Went to look at a slip at new marina--looks like we'll be moving!


4. Had dinner with the hubby.


5. Worked on the novella.


6. Discovered the Amazon pre-order link to Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (I have a short werewolf Christmas story in it.)


7. Did massive updates to my website including:
   
   
   
   • My book page
   
   
   • The Greywalker Cover gallery (which now has all the foreign covers I'm aware of.)
   
   
   • The Other Cover gallery--which has the Wolfsbane and Mistletoe cover on it
   
   
   • An Excerpt from Underground
   
   
   • All the images and other bits to go with those
   
   
   • (unfortunately, still not fixed the contact page... alas!)
   
   
   
   
8. Another Pengui-Blog (#4) and had them fix the link on yesterday's.
   

   Jim Butcher once said that he modeled Harry Dresden on the hardboiled detectives of Mystery's Golden Age--guys who had two common traits: they got the snot beaten out of them regularly; and they knew how to cut up with the quips--to "lip off" as Mr. Butcher put it....

   
   
9. Medicated ferrets.


10. Talked to doctors before we head to England.


11. Got a look at the cover copy for Mean Streets--the novella antholgy--which is now tentively on the publishing schedule for Winter 2009!

Kind of crazy, yes?

"There is a saying that if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Which is very embarassing if you're the parent of a small child with a plastic duck bill squeaker. If the child in question were a book, he'd be relegated to the "duck" shelves in short order and nothing his mother could say would get him moved back to homo sapiens...."

And that's the beginning of Penguin Blog Post #3. Just click the link to read the whole thing.

So far I've been enjoying the blogs more than I expected to. The only downside being, they take time I usually put into the books and so on. Oh... to blog further or not to blog....

"A couple of my writer friends really hate used bookstores. Some of them even hate libraries...."

And so begins my second day blogging at the Roc/Ace blog. Read the whole entry, if you can stand it.

Thus begins my first guest-blogger post at the Roc/Ace SFF blog:

I never would have expected it, but the most common question I get about Harper's world is "why doesn't she have a cell phone in Greywalker?"

To read the whole thing, go here.