A review of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Podcasting, Immunodeficiency, and Moving

Thanks to Alternating Current’s The Spark for this new short review of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter!

Thanks to A.C. Fuller for interviewing me on his podcast, Writer 2.0, which went up today. My interview starts right around minute 4. We talk about cons, speculative poetry, the pluses and minuses of Amazon and distribution, Jason Mott and a little about how to sell books:  http://acfuller.com/speculative-poet-jeannine-hall-gailey-episode-51-july-30-2015-3/

In mundane life news: our house goes up for sale tomorrow, which is causing us a bit on panic because we don’t quite have another house to move into yet. We’ve been looking for a single-story house on the East side for some time, and did find a house very close to our specs, but with pre-inspection found a bunch of problems (including black mold all over the attic) our house-buying-seeking journey continues on! A little nerve-wracking. I am very much looking forward to having a house I can get to all the rooms in, though! I’ve missed having my own writing office (I’ve been working out of the already-kind-of-small-and-crowded master bedroom for the last three years) so our hope is we find a place with a nice little office space, hopefully one that looks out onto trees.

If you’re following my exciting immune-system problems of the last twenty-or-so years, we may finally have cracked at least one of the problems – an IgG subclass deficiency! Could be responsible for my years of sinus/bronchitis/pneumonia problems. I’m very grateful that UW’s latest rheumatology-immunology guy decided to try not just testing overall IgG but the individual component classes. Immune systems are mysterious things!

It’s almost August, and the opening of more reading periods! I guess we’ve got to get our poetry ready to send out!