love

A friend in a locked post writes about different languages' words for love and friend - made me reply thus:

There is a beautiful word in Dutch (which an old flame taught me) that means you feel a love for something so intense that - and this is pretty much what the King James Bible used, too! - your bowels twist within you. From the way he used it, it's less about romantic love than that sudden wrench you get over a beloved child, or a landscape . . . Nevertheless - interesting to know how English limits us (now that our bowels no longer yearn like they used to in 1605)!

(And, yes, I've forgotten the actual word - though I can still see his face and eloquent gestures in the restaurant candlelight . . . Anyone know it?)

My Worldcon Schedule

We'll be in Anaheim, CA, August 23-27 at LAcon. Here's my schedule:(   )

The complete con schedule (with full panel descriptions) is up here.

there will be TPOTS in LA and Seattle

My spies tell me that people have had trouble getting The Privilege of the Sword, and are concerned about LAcon. Here's the update:

First printing sold out, so Bantam quickly went back to press. My editor, Anne Groell, says new books are now in the warehouse and will appear on the system computer by Monday, ready for ordering, so stores should have no trouble getting more in.

There will be books at LAcon! ( Read more... )

What about Seattle? Duane "The Man" Wilkins will have over 50 copies for the signing at University Books on August 30th, plus lots of Changeling and our other titles, too. If you can't be there but you want a book personalized, Duane says: "Folks can go to our webpage , and send a note with how they'd like book(s) signed, and we can take care of it. "