First of all, I am writing this on my phone because the hotel internet is $13 a day, which I will NOT pay. It is absurd. Second, I love Readercon and today reminds me of why. Intelligent people talking about fiction and a high percentage of my favorite people. However, due to the blogging-on-phone aspect, […]
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I just finished Chapter 1 of Glamour in Glass and am starting to dive into Chapter 2. With Shades of Milk and Honey, I posted the first three chapters in the clear as I wrote them and then password protected the rest. All you get today is the first line. Why? Because the third line
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Rob and I have been in NYC for the past two years on a house swap. That ends on the last day of August. After thinking about it, we’ve decided to move back to Portland, OR. The houseswap was intended to be a way to try NYC out without committing to it. While I’ve enjoyed
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Thank you all for your thoughts today. They were greatly, greatly appreciated. Rob was able to come in and we spent some time with Maggie before we had her put to sleep. We were sitting on a couch with her in Rob’s lap, so she definitely knew she was loved. Laptime was her favorite thing.
I am at the vet, with Maggie dozing in my lap. Rob is on the way. We are having her put to sleep today. She is inobvious discomfort, but not crisis. As much as we love her and want to keep her around for us, she is not going to get better and the pain
Rob had picked up a flat of wheat grass for the cats, which they loved, and at some point he set it outside to get some sun. Naturally, it rained, so he had to leave it out to drain. Before he brought it back in, a pair of pigeons nested in it. Rob said that
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My schedule at Readercon. I hope to see some of you there. Friday 7:30 PM, NH / MA: Reading (30 min.) From my first collection, Scenting the Dark and Other Stories Friday 8:00 PM, Room 458: Kaffeeklatsch Saturday 1:00 PM, RI: Talk (30 min.) The Intersection of Puppetry and Science Fiction. Much like science fiction
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For the film shoot last week I needed furniture to represent ten different scenic locations, all shot on greenscreen. Besides dealing with the usual greenscreen parameter of avoiding reflective surfaces I also had a fairly tight budget. This meant that some of the rental furniture I picked up wasn’t in stellar condition. You’ll notice that
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I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July. Rob and I celebrated by going for a walk in Riverside Park. The weather was nearly perfect. We chose not to fight the crowds to see the fireworks and now, at 1:20 am we are still able to listen to them as various neighbors continue
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Then behold! I am on a new server. The real question is: Do my posts show up in RSS again, or am I still relegated to headline only.
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This week’s column was ridiculous fun to write. I looked at fantasy revolutions and made up holidays for them to celebrate in 233 years. July 4 means different things to different people: fireworks, barbecue, a day off from work. But the founders weren’t thinking about any of that in 1776. They were readying for war
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Forgive me for squeeing all over myself but I’ve been reading Asimov’s since I was a teen and I just had just had the dream experience. I went into the bookstore and bought a copy of the magazine with my name on the cover. My name. On the cover of Asimov’s. It’s my first sale
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So, I was watching this video about Disney’s Imagineers making an animatronic figure of Obama for the Disney Hall of Presidents. When Obama is recording his speech to the microphone, I couldn’t help but watch his hands and think that it was terrible puppetry technique. And this is the real man. If it were a
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I had the strangest experience while reading Jay Lake’s Green. I kept feeling like I’d read it before while absolutely knowing I hadn’t. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing derivative about the story and the plot turned in ways that surprised me. What it felt like was that this was a book that I’d read