I know a number of you are coming into town for Comicon. Why not take a break from all that industry stuff and come see a show? I’m puppeteering Peter in Peter and the Wolf. Sergei Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf is re-imagined by Mabou Mines co-artistic director Terry O’Reilly and Jane Catherine Shaw
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Jennifer Jackson is answering questions about agenting, on her LJ. And today she was talking about the role of net-working and conferences. It’s worth reading, but she basically says that all the net-working in the world won’t make a difference if the book isn’t good. Then she says: On the other hand, Elizabeth Bear introduced
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Jim MacDonald posted a reminder on Making Light A reminder: The ballots for the SFWA presidential election must be received by 19 April 2008. Mail early! And weigh the envelope — it’s on the border of needing two stamps.
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If you want to update the avatar that goes next to your comments, I’ve uploaded a slew of new images. You can also sign up for gravatars, which will allow you to use your own image.
When one’s husband is a winemaker, one sometimes receives compliments in the following manner. Rob: It’s maturity. The tannins are falling out. Me: As long as I don’t become flabby. ((This is an actual wine term)) Rob: No, I think you still have structure.
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It’s the simple things in life that make me happy. I love the idea of ReCaptcha, which stops spam and helps identify the text in hard to scan books, so I’ve been wanting to implement it on my contact form for awhile. Finally, today, I found Secure Form Mailer Plugin For WordPress by Dagon Design
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AnthologyBuilder has added Featured Author discounts to their offering. AnthologyBuilder invites you to take a chance on an unfamiliar author. We will discount the cost of your anthology by $1.00 if it includes at least one story written by this month’s featured authors. That’s right. $1.00 off any anthology that includes a story by one
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Jason Sizemore is the guest blogger on The Horror Library’s Blog-O-Rama. He’s talking about three women of horror that he knows and has included me. He opens my section with this: Mary Robinette Kowal is better than you. No, she doesn’t think this. ((I don’t.)) And she’ll kill me for making such a statement. ((Yes,
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I got up this morning and didn’t know what to do with myself. I had nothing on the calendar. That’s not to say that I didn’t have work to do, but I didn’t have to be anywhere. It was odd to stay home all day. I kept feeling like I’d forgotten something. That’s all right
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The Fix gave a lovely favorable review to The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2, edited by George Mann. It included this bit: Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Evil Robot Monkey,†the shortest piece in this anthology, is a smart tale about monkeys with implants and a cautionary tale of how intelligence can sometimes be
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I have missed performing. And it’s not just the getting up in the audience that I’ve missed, it’s the rehearsals. The process of working out a show is strange and fascinating, especially if you have collaborators that you can trust. We’ve been rehearsing Peter and the Wolf for a couple of days now (minus a
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We got up at eight a.m. to go to see the Statue of Liberty today. The trains were crazy on the way down, so we didn’t wind up arriving until nearly 10:30. I’d been there before, back in college when they still let you climb up to the crown. We opted not to do the
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Not that he reads my website, but my beloved is 43 today.
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No, really. I mean it this time. I’m extremely pleased to get in because some part of my brain was sure that the April Fool’s Prank was totally going to jinx me out of going. I’m relieved my superstitions didn’t play out. And super excited to be going to space camp. I mean, big telescopes!
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Katherine and I headed to Yankee Stadium tonight for the game. She was a Tampa fan amidst a sea of Yankees; I was just there to watch the game. My understanding is that the Durham Bulls (her hometown minor league team) funnel into the Rays so she knows a lot of the players. The game
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