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[pbray]

Spending the weekend struggling with a scene in the WiP. I can pinpoint exactly what the problem is--I know too much, and am creating an infodump rather than a narrative. But so far each time I fix it, I merely find another place to put in a different infodump.

Reading: Finished CAST IN SECRET by Michelle Sagara yesterday. The third, and so far best book in the series. Though the tissue thin paper was a tad disconcerting--I was constantly afraid that I'd tear a page as I turned it.

Watching: Was lucky enough to stumble across the premiere of Torchwood on BBC America, and finally got to see what folks have been talking about.

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[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

And it turns out she's in Toronto! And works (or used to work) at Bakka! Which means I may actually have met her, and not realized it ...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hee, small world, isn't it?

She's been writing for a number of years--she did a series that was published by Del Rey in the early 1990s that I really liked, but didn't publish again as Sagara until this Luna series. When the first one came out I was thrilled, and then finally figured out that when Michelle Sagara had disappeared off the shelves she'd actually reappeared as Michelle West, and I hadn't connected the two.