Well. Extremely well. In fact, I think I just impressed my mother who is a fund-raising goddess. I tallied what has come in so far and shared the numbers with Jason. As of this posting, the raffle has made $1828.00. Jason did not get the 200 subscriptions he was looking for, but your raffle ticket […]
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The last two days have been dealing with cases. Nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. So here’s your Icelandic phrase for today. [audio:mybrainhurts.mp3] Heilinn minn meiðir. Translation: My brain hurts. See. Useful phrases like this aren’t in your standard guide book. My biggest problem was that I had no idea what the English equivalent of the
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I was ordering a subscription to the Clarkesworld Magazine chapbooks (which look gorgeous) and the order form asks “Who is your favorite author?” This stopped me dead in my tracks. Favorite. I was just having this conversation with my husband last night about The Sparrow. It is the book that I always recommend when people
Check out the Strange Horizons Review of Twenty Epics, edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi. “Most successful is “Bound Man,” Mary Robinette Kowal’s stark re-humanization of the hero archetype. When the soldier-priest Halldór, hard-pressed by foes, chants the spell to summon the legendary warrior Li Reiko, he has no idea that he is
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Okay, I lied. I closed the donation window, but these two came in right after I went to bed. They are lovely and I covet both of them. A six-issue Interzone subscription. An illustration by Sandro Castelli for the story of your choice.
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Well, I closed the donations window tonight with over sixty raffle items. So those of you who were holding out until all the items were in, may start dropping tickets in the hats. You can stop by the site for details but one of the things I added is an audio recording by me. Meanwhile,
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Once I had the life mask of Rob finished, I was ready to start the sculpture. My first step was to do a full size drawing of the bear to make certain that I had the proportions correct. Gummi Þor had already done a sculpture to demonstrate how the proportions would have to change from
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I miss them. I miss flipping through the notecards in the tiny little drawers. I miss finding the card that has been there since 1889 when the library opened. I miss the wood of the catalog. But there’s a toy that brings back memories. Catalog Card Generator
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I spotted this review on Michele Lee and the Road to Print. I’m reluctant to say that Cerbo en Vitra ujo by Mary Robinette Kowal is my favorite story. I think perhaps to know for sure I’d had to read it again and I’m not planning to do that anytime soon. Cerbo sunk its scalpels
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So, it took me about forty-five minutes to create the intial Save Apex website. And then I have spent the rest of the day inputting the donations. I mean, really. They keep coming in. It astounds me. I had a total fan-girl moment when the signed, hardback first-edition copy of the Sparrow came in. When
Here’s another way you can support Apex Digest. There’s old-fashioned raffle with amazing prizes at http://saveapex.maryrobinettekowal.com. You can buy a ticket to put your name in the hat to win autographed copies of books, art, video and other strange goodies. Tickets are a dollar each. That’s nothing, right? You can afford that. On Friday, September
Vocal fatigue is something you’ll have to battle when you’re doing a book signing or working a convention. The voice is created by a set of muscles and it can wear out. There are a lot of things you can do to keep it in good working order, and a lot of things you can
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Today we are supposed to discuss our interests. Since I’m not particularly interested in að dansa or að iþrotta (sports) I looked up the things I was interested in. You’ve already learned the term for puppet from me, so here’s a new one. Ég hef áhuga á vÃsindaskáldskapum. Translation: I am interested in science-fiction. [audio:sciencefiction.mp3]