I’m delighted today. If you take a look at the pdf of the 2007 Hugo Nominations you’ll note Shimmer’s name. While I’d love to see the magazine make it onto the ballot for semi-prozine, our spot on the list of runner-ups is very satisfying. Thank you to the ten of you who nominated us!
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There is a lovely list of insults at Angry 365 Days a Year. I don’t think one should re-use these insults, but I do think that they will serve as a useful model for creating a classic insult of one’s own. Some of my favorites: “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;
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There’s a certain euphonious delight happening with that title. Anyway, we are now into the part of the build where I am creating the final dolls. Everything goes much, much faster once I’ve got the patterns created. At the moment I have a pile of body parts on my table waiting for me to assemble
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Gah. So, see that story over in the side bar? “The Bride Replete?” I keep thinking that I’m about 2000 words from the end of the story. And I’ve been thinking that since about word 4000. I’m at 11,664 and still think that I just need about 2000 words to wrap it up. I know,
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Here is Sigur Ros, an Icelandic band.
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Lisa Mantchev, who I adore, posted this on her blog in regard to the vice President of SFWA’s recent action I want to know what it’s going to take to organize a new Genre Writers’ Guild. One that promotes the work of the up-and-coming writer as well as the old guard. One that recognizes the
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As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to make the spacebar on the Kowal Portable Typewriter and Adding Machine out of something mimicking ebony. I’ve been meaning to do this post for ages, but kept putting it off until I’d had a chance to test it all and make sure there weren’t any surprises. A number
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I’ll be at World Fantasy this year, which I’m very much looking forward to. Is anyone besides me wanting to go to the harness racing on Saturday night? One of my favorite books growing up was Born To Trot which was set around the world of harness racing. I loved that book and have always
Please go listen to this brilliant and funny bit of advice: How Not To Do A Podcast by Kate Baker.
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I got this from Vylar Kaftan. I will send a gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here on my blog. I don’t know what that gift will be yet, but you will receive it within 365 days (likely sooner than later). This may end up being almost anything. It could be
We moved in two months ago. I was going to do a post about how we’re settling into the rhythms of living in NYC but that was before we got the call from Iceland. At the moment, all I feel is a sense of waiting again and that the uncertainty has returned. So, since my
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I’m sorry, I meant to post these photos yesterday. To a certain degree creating the clothes for this paper doll is much like creating a costume for a human. I start by draping my “muslin” (in this case a soft, white, rice paper) to get the shape I want. I can’t use exactly a pattern
The theater decided to move the dress rehearsal up a day, as in tomorrow. I explained that it was impossible to have the wings built and installed in the dress–which the designer also knew–by tomorrow. So, they are going to cut the puppetry wings. le sigh…
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This requires some explanation. The costume designer for Mabou Mines’ latest show approached me about making a wing mechanism for her. I didn’t have time for the whole project, but was able to make a single wing, hoping that they could copy it for the other. She took it to California to be tested. Last
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Gah. I’ve started the build of the real Coralines and the first one I put together had that same gap under the chin. I set it aside and started another–same gap developed. So, the problem is in the pattern. I finished that one and then cut it apart to make a clean pattern. The new
Coraline: bad pattern. No biscuit. Read More »