All the Things
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011So many things! All happening!
There’s the barking dog thing. Jury’s still out–after three days of blessed silence last week, Thursday and Friday were nonstop barking. Non. Freaking. Stop. Barking.
Another neighbor thought she had an opportunity to touch base with Barking Dog Neighbor over the weekend. I need to catch up with her so I have the scoop before I clip request #2 to the gate.
There’s the paddock footing thing–we have a line on some more shreddings, of much better quality than before. Delivery imminent, we hope!
There’s the ConneryBeagle thing. We’re still trying to find a balance of his meds and still trying to find ways to support him through this. He’s looking a little stronger, if not quite himself. Still, that’s GOOD–and the only reason I can measure it that closely is because of the agility, and my pretty highly honed awareness of how he runs when he’s feeling strong. He’s pretty cheerful, and that’s great–and he certainly still thinks his agility and his tracking are great fun.
In fact–moving onto the next thing–he had a chance to do both this weekend. He and Dart headed to a local UKI trial, our first real experience with this new venue. The courses were European in style, and lots of fun, and the venue was small and friendly. We ran our first Speedstakes courses, and our very first snooker. Whee!
Dart grabbed a couple of Qs–and somehow kept enough brains to mainly stay inside the rings. ConneryBeagle would have Q’d in all his runs had he not slipped in the thick, long and really wet grass to take down a bar. So, yeah–fun!
Where, you ask, did the tracking come in? Out in the trial’s huge off-leash play area, the grass and clover were equally thick and deep, and a friend’s small dog lost a couple of favorite toys in it–toys the combined efforts of the rest of us couldn’t find. So Connery put on his tracking harness, played a few article indication games with the dog’s remaining toys, and made the conceptual leap to my request to search out additional toys.
Which he found.
SO PROUD!!
Oh, there’s the book thing: as of today, the second draft pass is done for Tiger Bound, the next Nocturne Sentinel. There are a few more details to polish up, and then off it goes to my editor!
And then, finally, there’s the backlist ebook thing. I’m having such fun with the covers, I’m still poking away at them in the midst of everything. So without further ado, here’s Feef’s House!
$.99
First Released: 2003, DAW anthology Space, Inc.
Backlist eBooks Store: All Formats
Feef is a smelly, insecure little creature who calls the Toklaat Space Station home. Shadia is a tough, independent itinerant worker who calls no place home—until the day Feef needs help…and offers her something priceless in return.
“Durgin has a remarkable gift for inventing unusual characters doing incredible things.”
–Kliatt
[included in The Heart of Dog anthology]
$.99
Nook
A year ago–which is approximately 3.72 centuries in digital revolution time–I was just putting up the first of my backlist.
When I put Fountane Of up for sale, I didn’t actually put it up for sale–I gave it away as a teaser, and didn’t worry too much about the cover. Well, that all evolved, too, and currently Fountane Of is 99c like the rest of my short stories. And LO. It finally became time for a new cover, and that’s what fun I had this past weekend, in between the plumbing excitement moments.
It may have come to your attention (somehow, though certainly I never talk about it ahem) that I’m working on a project called 
