Good weekend, especially Sunday. I loaded up the baby and we went for a nice long walk over to the rose garden, where everything is in bloom. Susan came over for dinner and hung out all evening, which was awesome. A beautiful day.

The kid is great -- there are new pictures, including many from Wiscon -- though he's got a new tooth coming in (his first on top) so he's a bit fussy of late.

Writing stuff:

Here's a review of Blood Engines, and another review, and an article from Library Journal about urban fantasy that mentions the book. Marla gets around...

I spent the last week line editing (and chopping five pages out of the first 17 pages, because the opening was slow) of The Light of a Better World, AKA the Bridge novel. I really love that book. It's certainly the most ambitious thing I've ever written. I hadn't looked at the thing in over a year, so it was almost like reading a novel by somebody else. It's off to my editor now, so wish it well.

This week I'm messing with my YA proposal some more, specifically the sample chapters, after getting some useful feedback. (Plus, I thought of some ways to complicate my characters' lives rather nastily, and I should get that stuff in there, don't you think?)

Life is good. Even if there's no sign of goslings around the lake yet, lazy babies...