Don’t take the semi-silence here as any indicator that things have been slowing down. Lots happening, not the least of which is that in getting the book “repackaged” for Lisa’s copy edits I’ve been making another mad-dash through it. It’s moving along pretty easy, which I hope is a good sign. But … Yesterday afternoon […]
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Crusher, Part II
Very nice review of “Bold Little Stranger,” a CD available from Crusher Jones, with my little brother [grin] on guitar. He’s damned good, btw. In that same light, if you’re in the LA area, you’ll be interested in checking out “Crusher Jones Presents: The Saga of Crusher (a slightly demented musical), at the Good Hurt. […]
Read More ...The Palcebo Effect, With Twists
Lisa sent me this link about ramifications of the placebo effect over the weekend. Interesting. People are just totally strange. # It was a pretty solid weekend behind the keyboard. I’ve noted a few times here that I’m breaking a novel into novella-length pieces, and I managed to get all the way through the third […]
Read More ...Basic Writing Equipment, Part The Second
A few days back I wrote about how pens have been going out of style, and how pencils (especially those of the mechanical variety) once held a place of high value across my family–well, at least between me and my dad. And now here comes an ode to the eraser that I found kind of […]
Read More ...Tim Pratt’s Impossible Dreams
I saw Tim Pratt linked to a short movie made of his Hugo winning story “Impossible Dreams,” It’s a really nice treatment of a great little story. Well worth the twenty minutes. The fact that it’s in a foreign language (for me!) and built in subtitles gives it an even better feel. # Moving into […]
Read More ...Restructuring a Book
I have decided I’m going to take an unpublished book of mine and split it into three or four sections with the intent of offering them as serial novellas. The book has been through several publishing houses and received positive comments (so I know it’s “good,” whatever that means in this context), but no commitments. […]
Read More ...Wife = Awesome
File this under: “My wife is Awesome” The set-up — I write all morning, and then we go work out together. Walk to the club, 45 minutes hard at the weights, walk back. We’re both pretty tired when we make lunch and veg out a bit eating it. About 1:30 or 2:00 I look over […]
Read More ...Serious as a Heart Attack
Now that the danger appears to be over and all seems okay, I think I need to apologize to Neil Clarke (@clarkesworld), as the data is clear it was a submission of my latest work that caused him to have his little incident at Readercon. I mean, how much more obvious can you get? I […]
Read More ...Reading the Right Way?
So, I’m finally getting around to reading “The Count of Monte Cristo,” which is a long damned book. Maybe three weeks in, and I’m about 10% done. Of course, I’m a grazing reader–and I read a lot of things all at once. For example, over these three weeks I’ve also read ten or twelve short […]
Read More ...Who Needs Batman When You’ve Got Robin?
“Oh, I forgot to tell you,” I said to Lisa. “For maybe the first time I’ve been saved by a copy editor who wasn’t you.” This drew her attention. Lisa is, you see, a remarkable copy editor, having made her living doing that for a number of years before turning to the darkside of Corporate […]
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