14:21 Another milestone of normal cat behavior: Maggie is grooming herself. (Promise, this won’t be all cat 24/7. I’m just a little focused now.) # 16:37 Yay! I just finished training with the new volunteer management software for SFWA. Now we get to start using it! # 16:50 Also, I just have to say that […]
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I’ve seen this popping up at every puppetmaker’s website because it’s all so right. I’m also curious if any of these things sound familiar to my non-puppet making readers. The reason it’s one of my pet peeves isn’t so much that people don’t bother reading the info available here before contacting me; it’s that when
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I think I forgot to mention that I was going to Penguicon this weekend, because, you know, I’m not doing enough traveling. A lot of good friends are going to be there so it should be good fun. Let me know if I’ll see you there. May 2, 2009 10:00 am — Ballroom 7 Making
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Those of you following me on Twitter already know some of this but I’m about to go into a whole heck of a lot more detail about Maggie. She’s been terribly unwell and while I was away, Rob sent me a warning that he thought all we could do at this point was make her
I took a red-eye back to NYC, which was late. Then in Cleveland, they had jetway problems so I deplaned about ten minutes before my connecting flight was due to depart. Yes, as you might guess, the gates were at opposite ends of the airport. I sprinted through and made it safely on the plane.
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I had a lovely and relaxing post-Nebula weekend with my friend Doselle. I’m at the LAX airport waiting for my flight back to New York. The plane is half an hour late already so my connection should be fun.
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At AMC this week I talk about environmental disasters and fantasy film. Think there’s no connection? Ha! I say, ha! Strip-mining, invasive species and famine, oh my. Weather often plays an important role in setting the mood of a movie. I mean, how many times have our heroes battled through wind and rain until they
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11:36 I’m heading to the airport to go to the Nebulas. # 13:30 Wacky. I used the new paperless boarding pass on my cellphone and it worked. It’s like living in the future. # 14:30 On my plane to LA via Cleveland. The paperless boarding pass was stunningly easy to use. I felt very SF
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My short story “Evil Robot Monkey,” read by Stephen Eley, appears on Escape Pod today as part of their yearly podcast of Hugo nominees. It first appeared in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers.
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01:10 Just going to dip the entrails in blood and then go to bed. # 01:20 I’ve hung the entrails in the shower to drip dry. Must remember to leave a note for Rob. # 08:36 I gave Maggie her two pills this morning and one of them makes her foam. She is sitting on
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01:20 Cat update: Initially better after the vet visit. Now vomiting and the runs. I’ll talk to the vet tomorrow to see what her test results are. # 01:35 Also, in my day of general woe, the toothbrush sculpture broke into multiple pieces when I took it to the theater. # 12:25 Today = not
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This is the last interview of the 2009 nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. I encourage you to find fiction by all of these authors and read them. Felix Gilman was born in London in 1974. He holds two degrees in history from Oxford, a J.D. from Harvard Law School,
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I’m sorry you’re getting a lot of twitter summaries this week. I’m slammed trying to get two shows up before I leave town for the Nebulas on Thursday. And yet, I dropped everything to take Maggie to the vet today. 12:49 Worried about Maggie. Rob and I realized that neither of us saw her eat
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Well look! My story “Scenting the Dark” from Apex Digest made the long list for StorySouth’s Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2008. The purpose of the storySouth Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2008. I’m very pleased to be on the list.
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For those that have been wondering about my passing references to 1000 toothbrushes, this is what I’ve been making with them. It’s for a dance piece the Chase Brock Experience is performing. That photo has about 600 toothbrushes in it. The final version has about 800. They are glued and wired together in mass. Moving
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