End of ROW80, and New Diana Gabaldon and Amanda Palmer!

nd of A Round of Words in 80 Days!

At the start of this round, I vowed to enter all the edits for Rome, Rhymes and Risk. I have to say, I failed spectacularly on that front. I was too busy finishing the first draft of Fred and Lyne's story (the contemporary paranormal) and beginning to type it up, along with much sweating over my query for Out of the Water. Some goals accomplished, some left hanging. Can't wait for the next round!

I won a book over at Kathy's! And I've just finished reading Karen Jones Gowen's Lighting Candles in the Snow. I'll be reviewing that and Kathleen Koen's Before Versailles soon. (Feeling guilty that I read this before I've read a single Dumas book!)

Has anyone kept bees or collected honey before? I'd really like to experience it just once. Particularly on this day, at Casa Gaiman. Speaking of Neil Gaiman (don't I always?), I've just discovered that there's a Twitter account that works on a similar premise to the country of Sweden's account (wherein anyone can apply to tweet for Sweden for a week or so): the Neil Gaiman's Twitter Wife account. I am now inching that much closer to joining Twitter.

I think Diana Gabaldon should set up an account like that too. I could be Diana's Twitter Sister or something. And speaking of Herself, she has a new anthology coming out!

A Trail of Fire, featuring four novellas in one volume. I've read three of the stories already, but I'm eagerly waiting for 'The Space Between': "This is a long - 40,000 words - novella that takes place in 1778 (right after the events in An Echo in the Bone) and deals with Michael Murray (Young Ian's older brother), Joan (Marsali's younger sister), the Comte St. Germain, Mother Hildegarde, and a few others."

This one's going to be in the Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination anthology, along with a new Turtledove story, among others.

Speaking of releases, happy belated Theatre is Evil release day to Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra! I got my copy of the Kickstarter Limited Edition album yesterday. Many of the songs are available here, but I'm embedding this one, one of my favourites (even though it's a lyric video and I sometimes subscribe to Pulp's dictum: NB Please do not read the lyrics whilst listening to the recordings):

 

What new stories and songs did you discover this week?