I’m sitting in the window of a Starbucks, with my laptop. My palm pilot is plugged into it to charge. Then I had had to make a phone call, so I pulled out my cell phone. A group of elderly ladies was walking past and one of them stopped, pointed. At first I thought she […]
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I made it in to the city with no problems and met up with the fabulous Emily DeCola, designer of the monkeys I’ll be working on. We caught up on the project, had dinner and then went back to the studio to unload the supplies I brought. Imagine my surprise to discover that my suitcase
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Man. Am I tired. Slept on the plane. Not enough. The TV here speaks of Astronauts, Love, Triangles and Diapers. We are boarding now.
I now understand why there are always lines in the morning for early flights. America West’s staff does not go on duty until 3:45. The airport screening does not open until 4:15. Coffee People does not open until 4:45. So if you get here early, you have to wait for people to show up. If
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I’m looking at my suitcase and wondering what security will think of it. For the monkey build, I’m taking my DeWalt radial sander, belt sander, three boxes of industrial hot glue and two shafts of nylon for milling parts. My other checked bag contains 8 bottles of Frameworks Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and a roll
Early on, I talked about the importance of selecting the right piece for a reading. Some pieces of fiction naturally lend themselves to being read aloud, while others are meant to stay on the page. In John Scalzi’s The Sagan Diary, I ran smack into that difference. Scalzi asked me to read the preface, which
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Andrew at PuppetVision found this wonderful 1920s newsreel about toy theater. Toy theater is one of my favorite forms and this newsreel is as informative today as it would have been eighty years ago.
Remember that audio gig that I was saying I was really enjoying recording? Now I can tell you about it. I was one of the six women that John Scalzi asked to record an audio version of The Sagan Diary. He has the recordings of each chapter of the The Sagan Diary up on Whatever,
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I think it is extremely unlikely that Grandma will read this, as she doesn’t have a computer at her house, but I’m so proud of her that I like to brag. What might I brag about, you ask? She is 102 years old today, and still lives by herself. She’s still sharp and fun to
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My brain is a little mushy because I just came home from recording an audio gig. It is a very, very cool one and I loved doing it. I’ll be able to point you to a link to it soon, but for the moment, just know that I think you’ll like it. I had a
That’s right, you thought we had a full house before, but you’ve seen nothing. Chrissy and Spencer Ellsworth came down from Seattle today. We’ve had a great time hanging out, going to Powell’s and generally shooting the breeze. Christina and I have stayed up a wee bit late prepping for tomorrow. I’m having lunch for
Hugo/Campbell Nomination Deadlines (DeepGenre) The deadline to submit nominations for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Best New Science Fiction Writer Award is not until March 3, 2007. Plenty of time. However… in order to nominate someone, you must have either been an attending or supporting member of last year’s WorldCon in
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We took a load of furniture down to our storage locker today. As we were packing, we decided to take the mirror off the vanity from Dr. Walker’s (my great-grandfather) bedroom suite. It seemed like it would be safer to move and pack. Then today, Rob noticed that it further disassembles; the shelf between the
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I know that all the cool kids are doing this but… Locus Online just posted the Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading: 2006, which includes Twenty Epics, edited David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi. (Wheatland Press/All-Star Stories) Since one of my stories is in there, I feel almost as pleased as if my actual name was on
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