I can haz publication date!

This from Per Aspera's website, a page on forthcoming books:

Being Small by Chaz Brenchley

A deeply personal ghost story of dead twins and mad mothers, of Moleskine notebooks and teen friendships, of AIDS carriers and more. Being Small is a cunningly crafted short novel by one of fantasy’s most well-respected writers.
Publication date: August 12th, 2014


...[My own feeling is that that should read "AIDS carers", but hey. Let's not quibble: there's a topological equivalence there.]

And Karen and I are heading north tomorrow, to the Frozen Wastes, where we get to spend the weekend hanging out with my very editor, calendula_witch and the awesome Mark Ferrari. On Orcas Island, where they are spending the winter playing innkeepers looking after a bed-and-breakfast business while the owners take a break. I am not in the slightest bit envious of this, oh no. Besides which, Frozen Wastes: apparently they're expecting snow and everything. Snow! Brr! *packs socks*

Vacation

What exactly is it that we vacate: our jobs, our homes? Our lives? It seems such an odd usage. It speaks only to what we leave behind, where in fact all our talk is of where we go and what we do there, the memories that we fetch back. Luggage, cargo, transport. Nothing empty or vacated.

Mostly I think Karen and I plan to huddle in the warm with books and wine and friends and such. That's worth going away for. Meanwhile the boys will enjoy many visitors, huddling in this warm house with DVDs and wine and such. They think that's worth our going away for.

In related news, halfway through a major surprise!root canal may not actually be the best time to go away. I rather think the temporary filling has collapsed into the (ho, ho) vacated tooth. I thought I was Dun Vicodin, but that may not be the case; I shall be taking everything with me, in the way of pain relief. Analgesics In America, as it were. You get no pun relief around here.