The spaniel’s name, by the way, is Lady. I use quarter inch “crap” foam to put muscle on her skull. We call it crap foam to distinguish it from reticulated foam, which is strong and durable. Crap foam tears easily, oxidizes quickly, but is very lightweight and cheap. It’s also fairly stretchy. Lady doesn’t need […]
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I should catch you up on what’s happening with the colon puppet. After I gave up on finding the part that the bandsaw flung across the room, I got a new tea-strainer spoon to dismantle. While I’d normally mill my own parts, this was already the perfect shape, so hey, why make work for myself?
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Much chortling ensued when I saw Cheryl’s Mewsings this morning. As regular readers will know, for many years now I have been handing out a “best dressed†award at the Hugo ceremony. It is time once again for a winner to be announced. There was a fair amount of stiff competition this year. I had
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Over at Tor.com Liz Gorinsky seduced me with her evil ways, by which I mean the Dessert Truck, into doing an audio interview. She had the molten chocolate cake, which was bubbling when they handed it to her. I had the vanilla creme brûlée. You should know that I have a weakness for cream brûlées
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Aliette de Bodard passed this request on: If you live anywhere in the world but in Europe (USA/Australia…), and you’ve received your suscriber’s copy of Interzone 217, can you please go over here at the TTA press forum and help Andy Cox figure out whether the copies of IZ are making their way out of
Marshall Payne of The Fix interviewed me before the Campbell. We agreed to do a follow-up question post-Campbell. I have to say this was a great process. We chatted on the phone first and then he came up with a series of questions based on what we talked about. It was fun. I’ve enjoyed his
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I was actually online before there were blogging platforms, but I started my blogger account four years ago today. That’s right kiddies, I remember when I had to hard-code HTML both ways, uphill in the snow. Not like you young whipper-snappers today with your fancy CMS and CSS and LJ and all the other new-fangled
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First of all, you should know that I did not pick up the shotguns today. There’s some additional paperwork that I needed, so hopefully that will be taken care of tomorrow. Meanwhile, here’s some of the dog activity. I’m actually farther along than this but I forgot to take pictures. What you are looking at
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Arachne Jericho wrote to me the other day and asked if I wanted a copy of my fiction sampler in mobipocket format, readable by Kindle. Heck, yeah! I’ve put it on the Free Fiction page, but am such a geek that I had to also tell you about it too. Now, the totally ridiculous thing
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Since we have some new readers, let me catch you up a bit. When my bio says that I’m a professional puppeteer, it really means it. So after feeling like a rock star this weekend, I’ve come back to the grind of daily routine, which happens to include building a springer spaniel. To do that,
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Well this should be fun. The show that I’m working on now needs two rifles. So, I contacted the company that I’ve used before, because they are helpful and smart. I like that when dealing with firearms, even blank-firing ones. I haven’t had to acquire “long-arms” before and have discovered that they are completely different
I love, love, love Subterranean Press and am so delighted to have finally landed a sale there. This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, right before Launchpad, but I was sitting on the news until I finished revisions. ((There’s a funny story here, which I’ll tell later.)) Which I just did and had accepted
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Yes, I’m calling it that now. Ellen Datlow managed to take photos before the ceremony, so you can actually see the bodice of the dress. People ((You know who you are)) were asking about it. It’s from the early 1960s ((The dress is heavily boned through the bodice and comes with its own crinoline. I
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Alan Roberts came to the “Strolling with the Stars” event that Stu Segal had arranged and offered me this photo. It is my very favorite one. Let me tell you what is happening here. I’m standing between Jay Lake and John Scalzi, two men who are dear friends as well as being former Campbell winners.Â
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Check out the book trailer for my friend Alethea Kontis‘s new book of essays, Beauty and Dynamite.
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