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Today, I have a guest blog over on the Long and Short Reviews site. Exciting stuff!

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And the double rainbow is for him and Varian. Of course.

What a cool day! An interview I did recently for Top 2 Bottom Reviews has been posted on their blog today, and following it is a really nice review of Notice. The links are on the sidebar to the right. Check them out.

I think it’s appropriate that A Sky Full of Wings was, by chance, released on the Summer Solstice. I’m very tuned into these patterns of change in my world, and it just feels right somehow that Varian and Josh’s wedding leaves the depths of my computer and flies into the world on the day the planet is closest to the sun.

Both my children were born on full moons. The oldest was born one day early, and my youngest was born nine days late, just so they both hit the full moon, I’m quite certain. I’m just weird that way, I guess.

Anyway, I’m feeling much better than yesterday, thanks to a real bed and a clean bathroom.

We spent the most interesting part of our trip out on Cape Cod, where I had an amazing time walking around Provincetown for the first time in my life and enjoying the gay community. Now, on the dead end dirt road where I live in northern Vermont, there are twelve houses, and three of them are owned by same-sex couples. After all, Vermont was the first state to recognize civil unions and gay marriage followed soon after. But I gotta say, the mood in Provincetown was a little different than here at home, and I was only there in the morning. I’m told that nighttime is even more… more.

I couldn’t help but picture Varian and Josh walking around Provincetown, sauntering up the docks, and sitting on the beach, and browsing the stores. Yes, I went into one of those stores, and did a quick look around, and left. Much the way Varian probably would have. After all, he’s not a prude, just… quiet. Josh, on the other hand, would have declared, “Oh my God, look at THAT!” and headed right for whatever had caught his eye. Then he would have turned to the clerk and said, “Not that we need any of this, mind you, my  husband is utterly amazing.” But then he might have turned back and said, “Um, on the other hand, this could be interesting…”

And it’s out! The Sky is Full of Wings!

Yeah!

And I just got back from three days of camping in a tent in a campground with the nastiest bathroom I’ve ever seen in my life and I’m deathly sick and it’s over ninety degrees and tomorrow I will celebrate this release. Tonight I am just going to be VERY glad that I’m home.

But thank you everyone who has helped make this release so amazing — for all who read and/or commented on my LJ hosting over the weekend, and all who watched the trailer, and everyone who helped me publish this story, and I so hope that everybody enjoys it, and I really need to go to sleep now.

There it is! How cool is this?

June 20th is the big day!

I’m getting psyched.

I’m making a visual interpretation to go along with this story. (Otherwise known as a book trailer.) Which, with any luck, everyone will get to see it this Saturday, June 16th, when I will be hosting the Torquere Live Journal  and celebrating the release of this seriously cool next addition to my Notice Series.

Eighty degrees (air, not water) and I was in this weekend. For the record, I was in Lake Champlain, as well. Yes, it was cold. No, I didn’t care. I NEED to swim, I need water, and I feel like I’m waking up from winter hibernation at last.

Tomorrow, May 19th, is International Migratory Bird Day!

Celebrate by visiting your local Audubon Center, or if you can’t, then go outside for a walk wherever you are, find a bird, and take a moment to appreciate it. They’re wonderful, they’re beautiful, and some of them fly thousands of miles every year.

Maybe they’re why I like dragons so much.

Most people pick a warm, sunny weekend to open their pools. We decided to start it Sunday afternoon, ran out of time, found out we had a broken valve-thingy, and I dumped a whole bunch of dead leaves in by accident when we were pulling off the cover. All this means that we’ve been opening the pool in the evenings after dark all week, one stage at a time. But at least I got a cool photo of the pool by night! Since this is when I do most of my swimming anyway, this looks very natural to me

Finally, it’s up and running, and the temps are supposed to be in the seventies (air, not water) this weekend. I am so going swimming! Can’t wait!