Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. In 1924, Morocco was a protectorate, under the administration of France to the south and Spain to the north. The Spanish portion was, simply speaking, a disaster, with years of oppression that erupted into…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s Mutterings post, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Russell’s first view of her larger surroundings comes when she climbs to the rooftop terrace, to see: All around lay a tight jumble of buildings, their rooftops—squared, domed, and crenellated; brick and stone…
Read MoreCongratulations to Jessica W. and Crystal F, our ARC winners of day 1 and day 3! Your ARCs will reach you next week. As for day 2, we’ve been trying to reach the Laura K. who does hand analysis, but our email bounces back at us. Laura, if you’d like to get in touch with…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s post, over at Mutterings,and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Water is the reason for Fez. It is the source of a hundred springs, which means every large house has its courtyard fountain, every street corner its public fountain: And as if the suq’s guiding spirit…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s post, over at Mutterings,and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Russell wanders the Fez medina: And the wares on offer! One street held shops displaying tall cones of varicoloured powder, from the deep red of paprika to brilliant yellow turmeric, interspersed with vendors…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s post, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Today’s photo is a bit of a cheat, since it’s not a place Russell actually enters in the story, although it is mentioned. She is following a trio of English women through the medina,…
Read MoreEight weeks until Garment of Shadows! That’s right, the countdown has begun, the newsletter is going out, the contests are continuing, and people are champing at bits. Are you one of them? Well, stop please, it’s hard on your teeth. Instead, why don’t you post a comment here? If you do that, you might be…
Read More…when I move from the present house, not when I leave this life. Although I suppose that applies, too. The house I’ve lived in for 15 years is very rural, with live oak and redwood in all directions. Since no dogs have lived here for all that time, and since the fines for allowing dogs…
Read MoreIn 1997, which my fingers tell me was 15 years ago, I moved house. I was then part of a family with two adults and a pair of high-school aged kids, and part of the reason we came here was the room. There’s now me. And the family center has shifted to the northern end…
Read MoreRandom House did a fabulous giveaway over at Goodreads last month. (Sorry, everyone who won and is now writing me to say they stayed up until 3 in the morning. And sorry, too, everyone who didn’t win, and got a full night’s sleep instead.) Now they’ve set aside another dozen Advanced Reading Copies to give…
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