oof.

Went to bed early last night, slept gloriously, woke feeling more like a human being. Which is good, because I've got a book that needs revising.

To entertain you while I do that: Alyx Dellamonica's got an interview with me posted on her blog, wherein I ramble on about a whole bunch of things, including the grade-school evolution of me as a writer, and the perfectly legal tax scam I've got going. :-)

Also, a review of A Star Shall Fall, from a place entertainingly named "Elitist Book Reviews." Their opinion? "This is how Alternate Historical Fantasy should be done." Awww, yay! And they hadn't read the first two books of the series -- in fact, they didn't know it was a series when they started reading -- so I now have a clear data point in favor of having pulled off what I was trying to do, namely, making the book work acceptably as a stand-alone.

Now I'm off to print the miniscript of this thing. Ta!

What should I read?

So I've got this reading and signing at Borderlands Books on Saturday (3 p.m., if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to come). I have a fair bit of time to fill, and so I'm intending to read several different things, as well as answering questions and signing books. I'll definitely do a bit from A Star Shall Fall, but I'd also like to do a couple of short stories. The question is, which ones?

You know what that means: time for a poll.

[Poll #1621723]

Edited to add: I'm disqualifying "Silence, Before the Horn," "Driftwood," and "The Last Wendy" on the grounds that I read them during my previous Borderlands event.