In epic battles of good vs. evil, the outcome often comes down to a one-on-one combat. A duel if you will. Historically, duels have been fought to settle a disagreement: Don't like what someone called your mother? Out come the swords! Fantasy movies, as it happens, have some of the best duels — and the […]
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I woke up on Tuesday and had no internet. I grumbled but whatever. I had other things to do and it was probably just a temporary outage. It is now Thursday night and my internet signal has ranged from zero to one bar of connection. Mostly it is zero and then will tantalizingly show a
As you know, the Hugo nomination period is open. I thought I’d post a list of my stories published in 2009. Just a reminder, I recused myself from SFWA Nebula eligibility this year, so none of these are Nebula eligible. I’ve bolded my favorites. If the story title has a link, you can read the
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One of the things that I had heard other novelists talk about, but never seen, was the style sheet for their novels. The copyeditor for a given novel generates a style sheet to as a tool for the typesetter and proofreader to make sure that the novel is consistent. It includes a definition of house
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This may be the most awesome latte ever. You should check out the Montreal Caffe Art Java youtube channel if you want to see amazing things done with foamy milk and coffee. via epicftw.com
Really amazing coffee. Really. Read More »
I’ve been seeing reports that people have received their copies of Scenting the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean, which is very cool. YetiStomper has a particularly glowing review, which covers each of the stories and finishes by saying: All in all, Scenting the Dark makes it clear that Kowal can do in 5 pages
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I just received this video with the subject line “So THIS is why you keep going back to Iceland.” This is not safe for work or family if the sound is on. But it is… um. Oh, just watch it. And no, no that’s not why we keep going back to Iceland.
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Allow me to experience a brief moment of triumph. I have turned in the manuscript for Glamour in Glass. Though I “finished” it back in September, there was an anachronism that was also a major plot point and it had been driving me crazy trying to fix it. Of course, fixing it introduced another complication
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I made it safely home last night and pretty much crawled straight into bed. It’s good to be back, although I did enjoy the way it sort of casually snows there. White stuff falls out of the sky constantly and its no big deal. I’m sure it would get old if I lived there, but
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We wrapped up recording A Local Habitation at 9:30 this morning, which felt really good. I was supposed to take a flight back tomorrow at 6am, but there was a huge storm coming in, so I’m attempting to fly out today. I say “attempting” because I’ve got a seat on a flight today, but it’s
Presented with as little comment as possible. If you look at the new Active SFWA members since July 1, 2009.* 14 joined with short fiction 66 joined with novel sales I am interested in your theories on the difference in numbers. *(I can’t track prior to that because the information was not gathered with any
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Day 2 locked in a soundproof box went fairly smoothly. Basically I started reading at about 8:30 am and went until 10ish when we took a fifteen minute break. Then back into the booth to read until twelve-thirty. I think we broke a few minutes early because my stomach was making very loud noises. Yes,
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I spent today in a soundproof box reading. Fortunately, it’s a book I like and the director and audio engineer are nice folks. Still, it was a long, long day. We finished chapter 9 and will start up again tomorrow on page 116. The book is 377 pages long so we got about a third
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I’m in Grand Haven Michigan. Why? Because I’m recording the audio book for Seanan McGuires’s A Local Habitation for Brilliance Audio. I had a very long travel day, so I’m heading straight to bed. I’ll keep you posted on how the week goes.
One of my favorite memes. Here’s the first lines from my first blog post of each month of 2009. January — 4 cups chopped pears February — Hey! Evil Robot Monkey made Locus’s 2008 Recommended Reading List. March — New York was scheduled to get fourteen inches of snow today. April — In the world
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