text: Aria vol. 1 by Kozue Amano
  The Countess of Stanlein Restored by Nicholas Delbanco
  Rises The Night by Colleen Gleason
  Whirlpool by Jane Urquart
  Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint (reread)
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  Solstice Wood by Patricia McKillip
  Specials by Scott Westerfield
  Moonlight Knight by Joyce Kelley
  The Well of Souls by Juliet Marillier
  The Book of Dreams by O.R. Melling
  Whiskey & Water by Elizabeth Bear
  Pretties by Scott Westerfield
  Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
  I’ve been cleaning up and sorting files and posts and things today. It’s Lughnassadh this week and I do a thorough backup of my system every sabbat, so that will happen later too.
  It’s the last day of July, which means that tomorrow is the first day of August! If you haven’t signed up for the August Writing project yet, you still have time. For once I’m not actively engaged in contract writing, so I won’t be scrambling to try to fit not-work-writing into the schedule as I have done in previous years, breaking my brain and any chance of relaxation I had thereby. Last year I wrote a series of fairy tale-based poetry for half the month before things got too crazy. I had no idea what to write this summer, until as I was cleaning out files I found an idea fragment I’d typed out quickly and forgotten. It’s literally six words and a question mark. I think I’ll give it a try, which means sitting down later today and sketching out a schedule and breaking the writing down into thirty-ish parts, because I’d like to actually write the whole thing during the month for the sake of balance and completeness. It won’t be long, only a few thousand words, so that won’t be an issue. I just want to see if the idea will work.