Rob spent the day driving down to McMinnville to unload some things into a storage locker there. He then returned the truck to Budget. I unpacked the kitchen and assembled shelves. In the evening we did some furniture arranging. We are both weary and are staying with -e- and her family another night. The planis […]
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Because our friends rock, we were able to unload everything from the truck and get it into the apartment today. A hearty thank you to David, Kate, Aimee, Michael, Dave, Don, Yan, Eve, David, Ben, Rebecca, Taylor, Whitney, Bob, and Evan. After everyone had gone, Rob carried me across the threshold. In a fireman’s carry,
Rob and I looked at a sweet little apartment, built in 1945, in NE Portland. We think it will serve our needs well. Gas range, hardwood floors, lots of trees. Quiet. And we’re moving in tomorrow. Yes. You read that right. They actually processed the paperwork today and we’re unloading the truck tomorrow into the
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2009 Locus Magazine – (August) io9 – May 2008 Subterranean Magazine – Alethea Kontis (November) Bibliophile Stalker – Charles Tan (October) The Fix – Marshall Payne (August) Tor.com – Liz Gorinsky audio (August) Jim McDermott (May) SF Signal’s Mind Meld (April) 2007 Strange Horizons – Susan Marie Groppi audio (September) 2006 Science-Fiction and Fantasy Suite – Cat
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The lovely men at Writing Excuses invited me to stick around and record another episode with them at World Con. They’ve just posted it the Writing Process Q & A. Brandon, Dan and Howard answer a wide range of questions and I tag along for the ride.
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I believe we saw seven or eight apartments today. Only one of which were we both excited about. Of course, someone else is in line for it. Two of them would work as fall-back apartments. The rest were no goes. Workable, if we had to get something and get it now, but not otherwise. If
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Today Rob and I walked up to Alberta to Fuel, which was my favorite coffee shop when I was living here before, and had pastries and coffee while surfing apartment listings. Besides price, we have a very small list of hard and fast criteria. Gas range No carpet We’d like to be able to walk
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We have finally arrived at the Chelsea household, were we will stay until we find an apartment. So, the roadtrip portion of the move is finished. Driving into Portland from Idaho was strangely nostalgic for me. Back in my puppet theater touring days, I was on the Idaho tour for three years. The whole drive
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May I start by saying that the entire staff of Utah Truck and Trailer is wonderful and that Chris, in specific, saved us. As you might recall from our last thrilling installment, because of the holiday weekend, there was serious concern about finding the part. Not to be thwarted by a little thing like that,
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I’m very pleased to announce the sale of my short story “Body Language” to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. This is an important sale for me for three reasons. This is the first story I wrote after attending OSC’s Literary Boot Camp and was one of the hardest things I’ve written because I was
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Life on the road doesn’t completely suck. I sold a short story today! Maurice Broaddus is editing an anthology of horror titled Dark Faith for Apex that will come out next May and he just let me know that he’d like to include my story “Ring Road” in it. Actually… there’s a certain irony to
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Where to begin… So, we spent Day 7 of the move in Salt Lake City yesterday and aside from the frustration that nothing was happening with the truck, it was a really lovely day. To sum up yesterday, here are my twitter posts from then. 06:59 Heading out to have the truck looked at. #
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We had to stay one more day in Salt Lake City, because the truck broke down. I can’t feel bad about this because I am very fond of Beth and Sean. Getting another day to hang with them does not suck. Plus, I finished Glamour in Glass moments ago. Now, by finished, I mean that
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Really? We’ve been on the road for six days? Today was largely uneventful as we left Colorado and headed up through Wyoming. I cranked out story and got about 5000 words written. Things were fine until we got to Utah. Ah, Utah. There’s this dinging noise that our truck makes when the temperature spikes. How
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Black Swan Inn provided us with a lovely breakfast this morning and then we hit the road. For the most part on this trip, Rob is doing more of the driving than I am to give me write. My goal was to have the first draft of the novel finished by the time we hit
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