Thursday Tidbits

Another busy week, so no time for a full adventure post, alas.  (I'm sure you'd rather I was working on Labyrinth of Flame.  Right?)  I do have a few tidbits of news to share:

• The Tainted City made another year's-end list, this one at Fantasy Book Critic: Mihir's top 10 reads of 2012.  Plenty of other awesome books are featured there, and he's got a whole separate list for excellent debuts, so go check it out!  
• The Whitefire Crossing picked up a new review over at Fantasy Opinion: "First off, Ms. Schafer knows what she's doing. Her sentences are beautiful and flowing, sucking you into the story. Dialogue is effortless and the worldbuilding that went into the book brilliant."
• And I was delighted (and honored!) to see Dev used as an example in this article discussing how to write great characters, over at Daily Kos.  

So in honor of all that, I leave you with two pics representing my authorial mood upon seeing links like the above show up via google alerts:

Cartwheeling for joy in the Grand Canyon

And again, in Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand