Today I did laundry, washed the dishes, took out the garbage and the recycling, and mailed two manuscripts, a book and a package of licorice. I made appointments with my eye doctor for a check-up, with gutter repair services for estimates and an arborist to have our trees pruned. I also arranged to have our […]
I invited a group of friends over last night to let people know I was back in Portland. It was nice to see everyone, but it was a little strange to set up for the party. I went to the grocery store and could read everything without having to think about it. I’m also out
Shimmer The Autumn 2006 issue of Shimmer: Available November 11. Welcome to our second year! The Autumn 2006 issue features our interview with Campbell-award winner John Scalzi. We’ve got new fiction from Shimmer veterans Angela Slatter and Aliette de Bodard, as well as stories from Monica Eiland, John Parke Davis, Bryan Lindsey, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Kathy
Shimmer: Autumn 2006 issue is out! Read More »
Michele Lee tagged me with this little game. Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged
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So far being back in Portland feels very much like make-believe. My favorite coffee shop still has the card that I left last year, and so I’m continuing to get stamps for my decafs as if I had never left. The weather is the same, and not that different from what I left in Iceland,
Today is my father-in-law’s birthday! I hope it’s a happy one. I’m sorry that Rob and I are so far away.
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Sunil Sebastian took a series of great photos at the Shimmer Pirate Party. Just in case any one has forgotten why we hosted a pirate party, Shimmer is doing a pirate themed issue for our summer 2007 issue, guest-edited by John Joseph Adams. We’re opening to submissions on December 1 and are trying to drum
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I left my absentee ballot in Iceland, so I biked down to the polling station today. I’ll tell you, I felt quite the Oregonian with the rain pelting me in the face as I whipped down 15th Avenue. The line of people with missing or damaged ballots stretched down the block, but moved pretty quickly.
Edited to add:The following chapter is the rough draft I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2006 and is posted in unedited form. The finished book came out in 2010 from Tor, edited by Liz Gorinsky. You may read the final, published version of the first chapter, if you’d like to compare the two.
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EG Originally uploaded by GigiG. There are a number of good photos on Flickr of the Shimmer Pirate Party. Check out this one of Jay Lake getting tattooed by Beth.
Shimmer Pirate Party on Flickr. Read More »
Well. I got home around 1:30 am. My flight was delayed out of Austin and I just barely caught the connecting flight. Alas, my luggage did not. The wait for the flight to take off would have been worse had I not had a lovely conversation with Sally Harding. The weekend is a complete blur,
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I had a great time at WFC. Highlights include the Shimmer Pirate party, where I served a drink called, pirate, to 150 or so people, while Beth tattooed them. Pictures will follow, meanwhile, here’s the drink recipe. Shake in iced cocktail shaker & strain 3/4 oz light rum (2 cl, 3/16 gills) 3/4 oz Cognac
I’ve been having trouble with my internet in the room and complained multiple times to the hotel. They sent their engineer up–who announced as he came into the room, “I’m not particularly computer savvy.” Oh, how true that was. He poked at buttons on the computer and said, “I’ll have to close these windows,” and
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