Dinner with Lois last night

[pegkerr]

at her house. She told me all about her book tour as we ate take out from the Big Bowl. She lost her mother recently, and between that, a recent con and the book tour, she's lost her momentum on her writing but hopes to get back to it now. About six chapters are completed so far. I asked to be allowed to read the next manuscript and she said yes, so I should be getting it soon. She has bought the original painting of A Paladin of Souls and has it hanging on the wall between her dining room and living room. Quite lovely. Then we spent a very happy rest of the night talking about the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson movie (she's particularly an Aragorn fan, whereas I lean more toward the hobbits) and a particular guilty pleasure that we found out that we both share, much to our mutual delight, and no, I'm not going to tell you what it is. None of your beeswax.

I went on my own to see the 10:30 show of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Oh, wow, I loved it! And all the trailers before it were great, including, I was pleased to see, the trailer for Return of the King. Can't wait.

Comments

[fairestcat]

I don't blame Lois for buying the original painting of the Paladin cover, its absolutely beautiful and certainly the best cover of any of her books. I don't think I could handle reading Lois in manuscript form, unless I knew at least one other person who did too. I read the ARC of Paladin on my way to Torcon, and then was driven crazy for the next 3 weeks because I wanted to talk about it, but neither norabombay or any of the other local listies I see often had read it yet.

Sounds like a nice evening all around. I can't take sides in the Aragorn vs. the Hobbits debate, I'm pretty well an equal fan. Although I can tell you that Sean Astin is really nice in person, so that's points for the Hobbits :)

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Does this make you both pervy hobbit fanciers?

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

i love the Paladin cover, but I spent lots of time staring at it trying to figure why in the world Ista (or anyone else, for that matter) would choose to wear the circlet around the outside of her hood. It is just Not Right.