. . Friday 12:00 Noon Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch Mary Robinette Kowal and Barry B. Longyear This is my first kaffeeklatsch. Here’s your chance to ask me questions about writing, puppets, SFWA, Iceland… Come chat with me! Friday 1:00 PM VT: Tabula Rasa Group Reading Readings by members of the New York-based Tabula Rasa writer’s group, including […]
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Alas. We could not fit all of the gear on the bike and leave room for me. I will be in town this weekend after all. Rob headed off safely.
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Rob and I are embarking on a four-hour motorcycle trip. I’ve got my cellphone, but coverage is spotty. I will be without internet access until Monday. So, while I’m gone, here’s a question for you. If you could have your ideal retreat, what would it include? Me? Clean, cool, quiet. Wi-fi, plenty of outlets, good
I’m only home for fifteen days this month. Yesterday was the only full day that Rob and I will have together until August 11th. He’s leaving to go to Canaan for a film shoot today and returns the 17th, the day that I leave for Readercon. We might overlap that day, but likely not. I
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The irony here is that I wasn’t going to post about the Sanders rejection letter ((For those of you who haven’t been following this, the content of the letter contains offensive, bigoted language. )) at all because everything that I would have said had already been covered, but a conversation at lunch today has changed
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16:06 On the plane, heading for D.C. In theory, we are departing on time. # 17:39 I’ve arrived in D.C. and had a suprisingly good view of the capital and the Washington monument. # 17:46 The shuttle bus I’m on just had to back up to avoid being hit by a taxing plane. # 18:52
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I made it home with no problems and no chance encounters with editors in transit. I would worry that my streak was broken, except I spent a week of this trip at the Codex Writers Workshop and Retreat with Ellen Datlow. Surely that maxed out my quota for the month. I will do a full
After two fun-filled weeks of writer’s retreat and a medical emergency, I’m heading from one home back to the other. I’ll see Rob tonight and get to spend two days with him, before we begin a month of out of town trips, each of which has us poised to arrive back in NYC on the
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Jon Armstrong continues his series of interviews with Campbell nominees on If You’re Just Joining Us David Louis Edelman is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and web programmer. His first book, Infoquake, was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel and named Barnes & Noble’s Top SF Novel of 2006. His latest
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Mom’s biscuits, fried apples & scrambled eggs.
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The quiet here is different than in Iceland. There are a bajillion birds greeting the morning.
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Wow! I can’t believe how much improvement Grandma has made since this morning. She seems more energetic at the end of the day, than at the end of the day, than at the beginning.
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Cooking dinner for Dad and me. It’s a salsa-based version of my starving artist surprise, which basically means Leftovers.
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Eating my mom’s apple cake. Mmmm…. Why yes, I am having desert before dinner. And your point?
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And now I’m trying the option of writing a “tweet” from my WP dashboard. Such excitement. How will it all end?
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