Friday Memes: Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff

I'm participating in two Friday book memes, Book Beginnings On Fridays, hosted by Rose City Reader, and The Friday 56, hosted by Freda's Voice.

Every Friday, share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

For the Friday 56, grab a book, any book. Turn to Page 56, or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that's okay. Find a snippet, short and sweet. Post it, and add the url to your post at the link here.

Arisia 2014

Last weekend I attended my second Arisia convention. Arisia is a large science fiction and fantasy convention held in Boston MA annually over the Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend. I went with my friend avangyline and her family. Although they live only about an hour away from me, we only ever see each other when we attend cons together in Boston. I joke that it's our annual date.

I was particularly excited to go as two authors I enjoy very much, Laura Anne Gilman and Tanya Huff, were scheduled to be there. Unfortunately, Gilman cancelled right before the start of the con. Arisia chose not to announce it on their website or add an addendum to the program. I only knew about the cancellation because I follow Gilman on both Facebook and Twitter. Towards the end of the weekend I discovered that twice a day they put out a flyer called Clear Ether that they set out around the hotel with no explanation of what it was or who put it out. You only knew that it was con-related if you picked it up and started reading it. That seems to me a very poor way of communicating last minute changes. Why not update the website and post updates at the registration desk and info desk?

Quote-Tastic #32 I wouldn't have time to make friends.

Join us every Monday and share a favorite quote that's grabbed you for one reason or another. Everyone's welcome to join in - authors, bloggers, readers. The more the merrier! Just grab the button and put up your post :) Don't have a blog? No worries, just leave your favorites in the comment section.  Quote-tastic is hosted by Herding Cats & Burning Soup.

This weekend I got to meet SF/F author Tanya Huff and have books signed by her so I thought I'd share a quote by her. This is from Blood Pact, book four in the Blood books. Vicki, a human woman, is involved with both a human man, Mike, and a male vampire, Henry.

Quote-Tastic #29 Who Tidied the Brimstone?

Join us every Monday and share a favorite quote that's grabbed you for one reason or another. Everyone's welcome to join in. 

Authors, bloggers, readers. The more the merrier! 

Just grab the button and put up your post :) 

Don't have a blog? No worries, just leave your favorites in the comment section. 

Reading "Clean Sweep" by Ilona Andrews made me want to re-read the Keeper series by Tanya Huff. I might get to it over the break but in the meantime, I've been poking through the first book, "Summon the Keeper". It was hard to pick just one quote, there are so many good ones. Claire is a supernatural, a Keeper, whose job it is to keep order and fight evil, and Dean is the handyman and chef at the inn Claire owns; he's just found out about the supernatural world and is still adjusting.