http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/ Comonplace books were popular in the Renaissance, a place to jot down ideas, bits of verse, receipts (that's how to cook something), and so on. You'll find I'm not the first to call my weblog a comonplace book if you allow for variations in spelling. en-us 2008-11-16T19:42:47+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Pati Nagle hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20081116144219 Book View Cafe has just been launched! This is a group venture by twenty-one writers to offer their work online. You'll find fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance and other categories, with different free offerings every day. Participants in the project include Laura Anne Gilman, Christie Golden, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Madeleine Robbins, Sarah Zettel and of course, yours truly. This website has been six months in the making and we're delighted to finally share it with ... Pati Nagle 2008-11-16T19:42:19+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20081101004439 Here's how they turned out (a few sugar cookies scattered in there too): Happy Halloween! Pati Nagle 2008-11-01T04:44:39+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20081031140952 I can't help it—I adore Halloween! Here is my muse, Nambé, in full spooky mode. I've always loved this time of year. Costumes, fall leaves, aromatic smoke from fireplaces. Candy, not so much, even when I was a kid. But this year I made some sugar skulls, which are traditional for Dia de los Muertos. We will decorate them tonight. Maybe I'll make some Halloween frosted cookies, too—I do love those! In honor of the day I've posted some of my photos from St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New ... Pati Nagle 2008-10-31T18:09:52+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20081019192457 I was out of town last week, and in the meantime it snowed, killing my tomato plants. The kits did quite well with their new cat-sitter (very professional, costs more but worth it). DH and I and four other friends crammed in all kinds of fun adventures in New Orleans, from a graveyard tour to Oak Alley plantation. Ate a lot of wonderful food, too, and heard some good music. Our first morning home we were awakened by a flicker pounding on the outside wall, another sign of cooler ... Pati Nagle 2008-10-19T23:24:57+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20081003171738 Hummingbirds are gone this week. Instead, the flickers are starting to come around. Time to get the chimney swept. Pati Nagle 2008-10-03T21:17:38+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20080922021009 It's the equinox. Time to pause and look at where we are in the season. To me, this is not the first day of Autumn, but the middle of Autumn. Weather is decidedly cooler; we haven't used the air conditioner for a couple of weeks. Days are just about perfect, nights beginning to be cool. The hummingbirds are still around and there are lots of robins in the bird bath. Pansies, nasturtiums, petunias, bachelor's buttons are blooming happily. Tomatoes are ripening in the garden. It's time to ... Pati Nagle 2008-09-22T06:10:09+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/patinagle/index.html#20080824234144 Back from Bubonicon, a fun weekend. Two cons almost back to back and I'm pretty pooped. At Bubonicon, I had drinks with Debbie Lynn Smith and her husband, Paul. She and I agreed that sf cons are an interesting phenomenon from the writer's point of view. Most writers (not all, but most) are introverts, but for a convention, a whole bunch of them come together and pretend to be extroverts for several days. By the end of it, we're pretty much fried and have to crawl back to our garrets and ... Pati Nagle 2008-08-25T03:41:44+00:00