After a very productive and immersive weekend, I’m heading back to Portland today. John Scalzi is also flying into Portland within half an hour of me. Given our combined travel karmas, I fully expect the airport, and potentially, all of Portland to implode under the combined weight of Things That Go Wrong when we travel. I
I finally realized that the reason I was slowing down with the Transfigured Lady is that I had hit the 2/3rds mark. I seem to always need to stop and reread about here so that I can make sure that things are still moving along in the direction I want them to go. Even though
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A bit of his eyesocket was rattling around inside his skull. Opened his soft palette to get it out. Glad I hadn't attached his head yet. #
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Hurrah! My copy of @scalzi's Fuzzy Nation just arrived. Resisting temptation to reread it right now. # I'm at the airport to go to SLC. Just realized that I left the yeti at home. #marygoround # We've boarded ontime. I've been upgraded to first class. I'd say "have a drink" but given the hour maybe
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It’s nice to see a puppet wrangler get her due. The LA Times has an article about the wrangler who maintains the Beaver puppet in The Beaver. The new film “The Beaver” stars Mel Gibson as a mentally ill man who begins to speak through a battered hand puppet that he retrieves from a dumpster
I’m on my way to Utah to spend the weekend locked in a basement with the Writing Excuses guys. So far, Friday the 13th has interacted with travel karma to produce zero lines and an upgrade to first class. I’m waiting for the doom to descend.
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Woot! UPS just arrived with the eyes I ordered. # Shades of Milk and Honey is 2011 Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel! http://is.gd/26jMwa #shadesmh # Congrats to Locus nominees @matociquala, @Nnedi,@theodoragoss,@paolobacigalupi, @nkjemisin, @amelia_beamer, @ScottWesterfeld,@rachelswirsky # Also congrats to Locus nominees @neilhimself, @jaspkelly, @catvalente, @EllenDatlow, @JonathanStrahan, and @JohnPicacio! http://is.gd/iK2TgP # Smearing soap all over
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Yay! Yes, slightly larger eyes will work if they can overnight them to me. # And now I'm heading out to have lunch and pick up the fixings for legs and a pelvis on the way back # Bay Area tweeps: @JohnPicacio & I will be on your turf at #Baycon Pre-reg deadline = May
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Hurrah! Shades of Milk and Honey is one of the five finalists for the award for Best First Novel given by Locus. I’m also happy to see so many books on there that I loved. Yay! The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US) Shades of
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As one of the rewards for our Kickstarter campaign to take our puppet play “Whatnot” to WorldCon, I’m offering an unpublished short story. This is exclusively available to our donors, whether we make our funding goal or not. All you have to do is donate, and the story will be visible to you. Even if
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Look. If you are out of eyeballs, tell me when I order so I don’t sit on my hands waiting. Gah. Fortunately, they are able to overnight a pair that’s only 2mm larger and I can probably compensate for that. Still! I ordered them a week ago, and I had to call to find out
Since I know you like process shots, I took pictures the other day when I was hastily constructing the pencil-necked little weasel. For those who missed the whole thing, a politician in Minnesota called multiple-award winning author Neil Gaiman a pencil-necked little weasel, accused him of being a thief and said that he hated him.
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I have to write a 300-500 word bio of myself and the length is making me panicky. It is shorter than a novel, so should be easier. Right? # Really. Someone should write a MadLibs for bios. It would make everything so much easier/amusing/adjective. # What I really need is someone to update my Wikipedia
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Help me, Bio Wan. You’re my only hope. I’ve been asked to write a longform bio for BayCon, where I will be Guest of Honor at the end of the month. (Please come!) Writing bios gives me a sad face. They’ve asked for something 300-500 words long. I’ve just carved a 390 out of granite