10:20 At the “Making Fiction Work in Audio” panel which has moved to Ballroom 3 # 17:02 Mwahahaha! Apropos of nothing. # 21:39 They have an ASL interpreter for Doctor Horrible. She rocks. #penguicon. # 21:55 I know this is a bad plan, but, damn I want to teach these people how to make animal […]
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Wow. I’m unbelievably tired. Although, I suppose considering my panel schedule today, that’s not surprising. I have an 8 am panel tomorrow. Let me repeat that. 8:00 am panel. At a con. Who scheduled that? So, you get today in a nutshell and then I’m going to bed. I had a load of panels, which
I got in about 11:30 to the airport here in Detroit and immediately hooked up with my roomie, Alethea Kontis. We headed over to the overflow hotel, checked in and walked over to the real hotel to register. The moment we walked into the lobby, we ran into the Scalzis. Since none of us had
00:41 Yay! Maggie swatted at Marlowe. I’ve never been so happy to see sibling rivalry. # 07:35 At the bus stop on my way to Penguicon. There’s a group of kids here catching the same bus to school. This is alien to me. # 07:39 All the kids have uniforms emblazoned with CSS. Is their
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The first dragon I fell in love with was Smaug from The Hobbit. Both clever and fierce, he was a force to be reckoned with, and a character that endeared me to his species. But he’s hardly the only dragon that’s captured my imagination through the years. Fantasy skies are thick with the beasts, and
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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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