At least I think he has. He left for the airport yesterday and then called me. “My flight’s been delayed. To Wednesday.” I uttered an impolite questioning phrase. “No warning, no notice. Just a new itinerary.” Anyway, they got him on a flight for this morning, in theory. Because he was flying out of Newark,
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Check out the review that Charles Tan did over at Bibliophile Stalker of Twenty Epics He gave the anthology a 4 out of 5. Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Bound Man†was another favorite, everything from its Asian flavor, strong protagonist, and the enjoyable fight scene.
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Dear actors, When you demand a prop, a strange and difficult to acquire prop, which requires some hours of time to get for you, please think carefully when presented with the object before you announce that you prefer what you’ve been using in rehearsal. Many thanks for your time and attention. A prop master who
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Clarkesworld does the very smart thing of making electronic advance review copies available for the magazine. Joe Sherry at Adventures in Reading reviewed “The Clockwork Chickadee” and includes what is my now my favorite compliment ever. The story is, in turn, playful and charming, well thought out and deliberate, and Kowal appears to have written
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Steve was going to come visit for Mom’s birthday, but when my folks had to cancel their trip we also rescheduled my brother’s. It looked like this would be a more convenient time. However, when we bought the tickets, we didn’t realize that I would be in tech week for a show (which seems constant
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There’s an interview with me up on J. M. McDermott’s blog, which you should check out if you’ve ever wanted to know how I got started in puppetry.
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Clarkesworld Magazine just posted a preview of the June cover art, which will have my story “Clockwork Chickadee” in it. I am thrilled to be sharing the issue with this creepy art by Eli Effenberger.
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I’ll be going to my first WisCon and am extremely excited by the programming they offer. Here are just the panels that I’ll be on. Title: Beyond Illustration: The Process of Creating ‘Vision’ Saturday, 9:00-10:15 P.M. Caucus Much of SF/F art is illustrative, growing directly out of the writer’s vision. But some artists are doing
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Remember when I was talking about working Peter? Deb Hertzberg, one of the other puppeteers on the show, took a short video backstage so you can see what I was talking about.
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Later this summer I’m going to start with my official SFWA duties and I need to simplify my schedule before then. Step one: Ask someone to help with layout duties for Shimmer. Job Description: Layout stories to conform to an existing template. Adjust for widows and orphans. Confer with art director on art placement. Time
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Jason Sizemore, editor of Apex Digest, is holding a subscription drive. Since I’m in the next issue, I have a vest interest in helping him get the 150 new subscribers he wants. Like science-fiction and horror? Then this is your magazine. Subscriptions are a measly $20 for 4 issues in the US. $24 for Canada/Mexico.
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One of the joys, when I’m doing props, comes from creating paper goods. Letters, diaries and in this case, a 40-page poetry manuscript…. I took the text of the scene, fed it into the Bonsai Story Generator and got titles from the Book Title Generator. That gave me about ten pages, which I fed back
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Yesterday, while working at the theater, I ran to an internet cafe so I could check on the status of a prop I’d ordered. Two things popped up in my email. 1. Your account has been suspended. 2. An IM from Neil Clarke asking if I’d like to sell him “Clockwork Chickadee.” So, while I’m
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Well, a mere five hours later and I have my primary website back online. Now to tackle the other six…
My beloved folding keyboard, which I use with my palm pilot, died today. I clocked a lot of miles on it but it won’t talk to my palm anymore. Now, there is a chance that it’s actually the infrared sensor on my palm that’s kicked the bucket, but either way, I’m looking at replacing a
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