Day one of the retreat has been good, but I’ve gotten very little writing done. Granted, I’m sleep deprived and all that, but mostly it’s been about cooking and answering phone calls from NYC about prop issues. So far today, I’ve fielded questions about the AK-47 in the show, done a phone chemistry session, and […]
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I am on my way to Chattanooga for a week. The occasion? On Sunday, I will turn 40 and I decided to invite some writer friends and throw myself a retreat. It should be a lot of fun and hopefully productive for all of us. The only downside is that Rob is not coming. The
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Hey! Evil Robot Monkey made Locus’s 2008 Recommended Reading List. That’s pretty nifty.
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I’m in tech this week, so you’ll have to bear with me as my posts descend into Twitter updates. 14:01 The perfect blood spatter turns out to be from a nasal douche. # 19:20 Waiting for the train that will not come. # 19:27 Of course, as soon as I commented on the lack of
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I’m in tech this week, so you’ll have to bear with me as my posts descend into Twitter updates. 13:01 There is a certain cognitive disconnect about shopping for squirt guns while it is snowing. # 20:34 Sewing the dog’s pelvis on. # 22:04 We’ve decided the spatter pattern is not as good from the
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I’d love having a reader or two look over this one before I send it out. It is 7300 words of science-fiction. It’s in a password protected post, but you can drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. The teaser: Mary Elois Jackson stood inside the plain steel box of the time machine. It
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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I’m reposting from Beth Wodzinski, Shimmer’s editor-in-chief. This is a great magazine to work with and a really fun team. Plus, good parties at conventions. Shimmer will be relaunching soon (just a few weeks!) with a new site design, some new staff, and a fantastic new issue. We need two more staffers to help get
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For years, while I worked at Tears of Joy, and then after, Lance Woolen was my Technical Director. The man is brilliant. Even today, living in NYC, if I run into a question of how to build something, I call Lance. If he tells me something is not possible to build, then it’s not. But
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I’m in tech this week, so you’ll have to bear with me as my posts descend into Twitter updates. 19:53 Firing water pistols down my hall to check range and spatter pattern. # 20:23 You know. Life is really good sometimes. Today is one of those day. # 23:33 The nice thing about visiting my
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I spent two hours today to drive six miles to Hoboken, pick up a chair, and drive back into the city. If I never have to drive in New York again, it will be too soon. Besides that today consisted of meetings, and then another meeting, followed by another meeting, plus some puppet building and
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I have been going to the eye doctor since I was very small. But it\’s been years since I\’ve had my eyes dialated. It is impossible to focus right now, which I find disturbing and yet intriguing. I am totally touch typing, because the letters on the screen are so blurry. It is different than
Actually, it turns out that John Nichols posted all of the stories we read in neatly discrete chunks. Very exciting! My stories: Nails in my Feet Trip, Trap, Tripping http://ljsummit.com/wordpress/evil-robot-monkey-by-mary-robinette-kowal Things we read together: Denise Jones, Super Booker by John Scalzi The State of Super Villiany by John Scalzi Scalzi, solo: Missives from Possible Futures
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If you swing over to the blog “Things of interest to Lisa and John” you can listen to my short story, “Trip, Trap, Tripping” which audio from when John Scalzi and I were at Borderlands. It’s a little over 8 minutes long. Trip, Trap, Tripping by Mary Robinette Kowal You can tell that I’ve got
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