Spending an hour after I get home from work to clean out a list of porn from my site is not my idea of a good time. It was code hijacking on an otherwise perfectly good plugin. The plugin is uninstalled. I’ve reinstalled WordPress and am now going to bed. You’ll have to wait one
Just to catch you up. The tentacles were cut, though not because of anything on our end. Meanwhile, I’ve missed a week in the shop, because of my cold. Day before yesterday, Emily dropped supplies off at our place so I could work from home. I had reached a point where I felt more or
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I slept through the night last night! Remember that cold I mentioned getting, over a week ago? Yeah. My niece gave me the gift that kept on giving. I tend not to blog about illness and injury unless it’s amusing or interesting. A week of hearing me complain about getting up every night to clear
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I think I’ve just had an epiphany about the writers who are clearly writing SF but say, “I don’t write SF.” Allow me to explain. My last couple of sales have been stories which can be called horror to varying degrees. Now if you ask me what I’ve written, I’ll tell you that I write
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Horror World Reviews covered Gratia Placenti, from Apex Digest, with what has to be the best review of any project of which I’ve had the pleasure to be a part. The final story in the book, Mary Robinette Kowal’s Tomorrow And Tomorrow is yet another strong tale, concerning both a mother’s love and a husband’s
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A draft of the preliminary Nebula ballot is up for review in the SFWA members area. For Solo Cello, op. 12 is on there with six other stories. I literally squealed. Not just a squee, a full-out squeal of delight. Once they post the official preliminary ballot, I’ll share it here, because a couple of
Preliminary good news Read More »
There’s a beautiful, virtual gallery of hand puppets here. The characters are so clear that it’s easy to imagine the stories they come from. Can’t you just almost hear them speak?
When Rob and I woke up this morning, our health had taken a swing for the worse. Yes, indeed. My niece gave us the gift that keeps on giving. So I called the friends that were supposed to come over and regretfully asked them to stay away. We’ve been huddled under the covers with a
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Okay… maybe there are better ways than Chaucer’d Dr. Seuss to start out the New Year, but not by much. HorrorScope did a review of Horror in 2007 To see out the death of 2007, HorrorScope assembled a team of experts within the field of horror and dark fantasy to compile an experts’ choice recommended
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Is there a better way to start off the New Year than listening to Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, Chaucer’d? I don’t think so.
Rob and I have a tradition of making sushi New Year’s Eve and staying in. Tonight, on my way home, our neighbor was standing in the lobby and ready to hop on the elevator. I rode up with him, chatting about New Year’s plans and, quite spontaneously, I invited him and his wife to join
My niece gave me a cold for Christmas, so we’re going to take advantage of it to show some tricks for dealing with throat ailments. For kicks, I recorded the whole post this time. You can listen to it here OR you can read and just listen to the example clips. Listen to Reading Aloud:
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(This was from before Christmas) No photos today, sorry. Emily came back from China and we dived into work. Good heavens, it is so much easier to figure things out when the designer is right there to answer questions. First thing on the list were the tentacles. We decided that if we shortened them a
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All the good SFWA boys and girls seem to have dutifully posted about the pending close of the Nebula preliminary ballot on December 31. On the off-chance that you are a SFWA active member and haven’t recommended any fiction yet, I would like to recommend a simple strategy. My opinion on the Nebulas is that
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Irene Gallo had this bit of loveliness on her blog, The Art Department.
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