Golly, it’s a banner week for reviews. Joe Sherry, at Adventures in Reading, reviewed “Horizontal Rain.” Here’s a snippet. Horizontal Rain is a reasonably short short-story, fewer than 2700 words, but Mary Robinette Kowal packs a good deal of story into those 2700 words. Confusion, fear, fairy tales, trolls, death, driving, construction, meetings, phone calls,
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That’s not a command, it’s an invitation. Kill Henry Sugar is the name of a band. You’ve been listening to them lately on my Coraline videos. Tonight, they have a CD release at the Living Room. (154 Ludlow St.) The band starts at 10:00 If you are in town, come join Rob and me. If
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In the question of what would happen for us about Iceland, those of you who voted for the angry sheep have won the day. This was actually my code phrase for “We may be asking for too much money.” Because we have a two year commitment to the apartment in NYC, we needed to be
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I’ve been wanting to get into Talebones for sometime, and this review by SF Observer explains why. It’s a really good magazine. I’m pleased as punch to have “Death Comes But Twice” in its covers. About my story, SF Observer says: This story follows the main character, who takes advantage of the elixir of a
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I need to update it, since it has none of my Lazytown work on it, but, at least it’s online now.
I wasn’t going to blog about this, as I somehow seem to be one of the few people who haven’t been caught, but… I would like to make certain that my friends and family who haven’t been invited to the plague know to refrain. The short form is this. If you get an invitation to
I know some of you are in Australia, but I’m not sure which parts. You must, MUST, take advantage of the Unima World Puppet Festival in 2008. UNIMA is the international puppetry organization. It is the oldest continually operating arts organization in the world. This festival will have shit-hot puppetry at it. Man, I wish
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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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