The quote that sums up this week comes from the Captain's log of the doomed ship Demeter , en route from Varna to Whitby in the novel DRACULA... "Four days in hell, knocking about in a sort of maelstrom...its corresponding Twitter feed are now up-to-date. ======================================== Positive energies going out to my Gentle Readers en masse. Seems to be a very rough time for all of us

A few bullet points, rounding up news of the week: * Welcome to new Gentle Reader stefanie_bean . * There are a few new posts over at mikescomics , one of which is of particular interest..."downtime" is about to come to an abrupt end. * I've unlocked all posts made in this blog in the calendar year 2009 that were originally unlocked. The few that were locked have been re-locked

Well, now that I've figured out the dating problem that caused my posts to disappear from your LJ Friendspages, let me bring you up to speed, Gentle Readers. What you may have missed since the end of...who have added this blog... * blergeatkitty * qotcpcf ====================================== The rest of this week is playing out to be shaped by other people's plans

The day started off much like many in mid-November, where I actually needed a sweater and socks over my night attire of camisole and leggings. That's probably why my brain is percolating along with the... which makes for very boring journalling. I hope that today's upswing to just-plain-busy allows for more interesting thoughts to escape into the ether and onto this blog. Thank you for your patience

Good morning, Gentle Readers. This entry comes to you live from the House of Repetitive Motion, as we cook turkey bacon, brew coffee and tea, and handle tax matters in a single bound. The subject line...take a peek at Dracula's own journal, the thoughts of Miss Angeline Featherheart, and the musing's of Doctor Seward's phonograph. ================= One hopes that real entries here will resume soon

Some new Gentle Readers who've found me in the course of the last week... * bttybp , the lovely bride-to-be of my own dear adopted offspring alexjay ... * ktempest , who has...a table with this weary traveller in the crowded Javits mezzanine at BEA, early in the trade show's run, while she had an editorial meeting and I was prepping for appointments... Welcomes, one and all

Doing lots of last-minute stuff before BookExpo America, and am expecting to be offline for much of the week. Therefore, bits and pieces in bullet form for you to digest easily, my Gentle Readers. *...in my head about my fascination with Pied-Piper-types. My thanks to rubbermummy for kicking some of the rust off my creative efforts. ======================= Be excellent to one another

Really quick things to note: * Welcome to new Gentle Reader scarletsherlock . * Quiet fanfareless-but-heartfelt birthday wishes to call_me_robert and upasaka . * New post up... * The Blog Stoker's DRACULA Project continues apace on LiveJournal and Twitter. I have fallen behind on posting it on Dreamwidth, and I am discouraged by their inability to backdate posts. More later

Bullet-pointed for your pleasure... * Welcome to new Gentle Reader elementalmuse . * New post up at mikescomics . * Friending frenzy at blogdracula . Counting down to May 3rd...again. I really, really miss my old agency... for the two years I was with them, I was never out of work for more than two weeks. * I love to itinerarize, even more than I love to accessorize

It's exactly a month until Jonathan Harker leaves for his first venture through the Borgo Pass . Yes, I'll be relaunching The Blog Stoker's DRACULA Project for 2009, in slightly less than 30 days. ... each with their own Twitter ID, and the novel will be told through the POV of these characters in modern speech. ============================= Again, here's wishing all of us a haunted summer