The Story So Far...

 

The nice folks organizing WorldCon asked me for a picture of my study, so here it is. (I tried to get the one of me while I was President of SFWA, in a scarlet dress conducting the SFWA meeting with a whip, but couldn't manage to scan it correctly. This'll have to do.)

I'm STILL trying to regain access to my Facebook page, "Barbara Hambly, Writer," but have not had any luck getting in touch with the people who actually run the page. The personal page that I used as a sort of gateway to get into the Writer page won't let me on until I "Press This Button to Get Started!" and I can't find out whether this is an actual thing, or a scam of some kind (I got into a LOT of grief the last time I pressed a button without checking). (It's not doing that on my other, Secret Facebook Page.)

The good news is that I finished Ben January #22 (Act of Insurrection) AND a short story for an upcoming anthology of stories set in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. I'm set to start on the next Hollywood mystery, and am collecting research for another fantasy novel. AND, as I think I said last time, it looks like there will be another vampire book, "Nightfall's Servants." (Fortunately, that one's already written).

I will do my best to stay in touch via this website and blog, and will keep periodically trying to re-open my doorway onto the Barbara Hambly, Writer site. In the meantime, the cats would all say Hello if they weren't asleep.

Thank you all for hanging in there.

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