November's Books and DVDS and a few other random things

You know the drill. Talk to me about them. I love that.



BOOKS: Book: Shadow and Bone, Graphic Novel: Elfquest: The Forbidden Grove YA Fantasy, and a seminal graphic novel (fantasy)

Graphic Novel: Confessions of a Teenaged Vampire: Zombie Saturday Nights UF, for younger teens

Book: Infected: Bloodlines mystery (with SF bent), LGBT

Book: In the Shadow of Blackbirds YA historical/supernatural

Book: Awakening Kindness, Manga: Bride of the Water God #8 Non-fiction/Spiritual, Korean Fantasy/Romance

Book: Lady of Ashes historical mystery

Book: Shadow Dying Is My Business Urban fantasy

Book: The Apprentice mystery

Book: Rebel Island mystery

Book: The Four Elements, Manga: Bride of the water God #9 Non-fiction/Spiritual, Korean Fantasy/Romance

And oops between nanoing and editing the novel I plum forgot to blog any of the dvds. Better get on that.

I THINK my internet is fixed. It was working good at 9 but now at nearly 1 AM it's starting to break up. GAH.

I think we can all agree that ice storms are scary as hell and make a giant mess but they also create beautiful landscapes and frozen Cthulhu

I got my fandom_stocking turned in. Yay.

declutter 175 item tossed -Cat ear medicine why kept -It was for Roy why tossed -He’s been gone for over a year and this was just sitting on a shelf in the living room. WTF?

Trying to work through the stress at the office

And in the house. Dad informed me that even though we have the same thing wrong with our arms, I can't possibly be telling the truth because it hurts too much to do ANYTHING. Yes, I do. I have the medical records, want to see. Sensing I wasn't the least bit sympathetic to his pity party, he turned the phone over to mom saying he wasn't a good conversationalist tonight. No, because you're being ridiculous about it. Yes, it hurts, life moves on. I'd probably have more empathy if not for the fact that my family always acts like I'm a hypochondriac making it all up ALL the time, no matter how many surgeons come and talk to them post-operatively to prove otherwise.

But enough of that. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts. Speaking of which, you can find some holiday cheer right here. Holiday Cards click that and request a card from me. Or maybe a drabble or two, prompt me or give me your fandom_stocking from DW here. I'd even consider something in my established original fiction universes as jana_denardo


And if someone would like to make my holiday, I have two short stories I'm working on for anthology open calls in Jan/Feb. One is m/m erotica sent in Wales and is actually contemporary with a hint of folklore. (Imagine that!) and the other is for a project for homeless gay youth. It has a gay character but is not erotica. If anyone would like to look them over let me know. You'd be helping me more than you know.

I'm also at the point where I hate everything about my FMA big bang....

This is beautiful

This is fun

I think I'm supposed to do one of those meme posts tonight. Bear with me. It might be tomorrow. I have to get a test ready for a student who needs it early AND work on my teaching philosophy so I can apply for that new job. My old one is pure b.s. and 10 years out of current teaching favor.

declutter day 176 item tossed -Bag of paper why kept-It came from my office and has sat here for months why tossed -I sorted it into things that need to go back to the office, into the scrap paper file and into the recycler