Douglas Cohen, aka The Slushmaster, has just posted an interview with John Joseph Adams, the Slush God. Go read the rest of the interview to find out more about the fierce Captain Adams. I’ll be guest-editing the Summer 2007 issue of Shimmer Magazine, which will be a special themed issue about pirates. As the guidelines […]
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The world in Crystal Rain manages to seamlessly blend steam-punk with fantasy and high-tech sf. It’s a pretty impressive feat. I kept having trouble sleeping because I was staying up waaaay too late to find out what happens next. Tobias S. Buckell has written a ripping page-turner, for sure.
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In puppetry we say that breathe carries the emotion. The only time a person notices another person breathing is when it’s important, when it’s carrying information. The simplest example is what happens when you look at someone lying down. You automatically notice if they are breathing, to make certain they aren’t dead. But there are
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Why do I only have 1167 words to show for today? Because I spent all freaking day trying to recover from edatarack’s blunder. I’m busily moving every site I hosted with them so that I never have to deal with them ever again. Between that and the Icelandic lesson, I feel very good that I
I read the discussion on Miss Snark, the literary agent about Sock Puppets and I’m saddened to see puppets once again taking a bashing. Back in the early days of the blog I’d surf around the net to see what people were saying about me. One of the recurring themes I found both hilarious and
Puppets getting a bad name, again. Read More »
Well. If you usually use my ohp address to contact me, you might have noticed that I’ve been silent for a while. edatarack.com has taken my company website offline without telling me. I don’t know how long it’s been down because I don’t go look at it every day and the email normally forwards into
Other Hand Productions is down Read More »
35,387 / 50,000(70.0%) 2,284 words. For those of you keeping score at home, I wrote for an hour and forty-five minutes today. First: Mom bit her lip, but didn’t respond. Last: Brownie Thistlekin stepped forward, twisting his broom in his hands.
By the way, I’m sure you’ve noticed the avatars that are now appearing next to your names in the comments. For those of you who are frequent commenters, which means arbitrarily means that you’ve commented five times, you can select your own avatar. There is an option to do that below the comment box. I
I’ve had my first Icelandic class. We are starting by reviewing the things covered in course 1. I seem to be about in the middle of the class, in terms of grasp of Icelandic which is perfect. My classmates are from Belgium, the Congo, Phillipines, Poland, Haiti and America. It’s a small class which is
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I headed into Lazytown today so that Jonathan and I could go have lunch. He’s heading back to NYC tomorrow, so this was the last chance to see him for awhile. We had planned on going to Dong Huang, which is the little Chinese restaurant we’d recently discovered. Sadly, they only offer a buffet during
I’ve just finished a large upgrade to Shimmer’s website. A hearty thank you to Eric James Stone who solved my IE problems.
Shimmer site upgrade Read More »
30,525 / 50,000(60.0%) Today I discovered the perfect writing combo. Facial plus timed writing sessions. I had a facial kit lying around that I’d been meaning to use. Moisturizing is good, but there are times when the winds here have stripped all the moisture out of one’s skin calling for more intensive measures. Each phase
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28,014 / 50,000(55.0%) First: Jacques’s hand-paws shook as he picked up the shoe and brought it to his nose. Last: Nausea twisted her, pulling the migraine through her body. “I have to go.” 2476 words today
Iron Council by China Mieville — mini-review You know. I really wanted to like this and just didn’t. While it is undeniably well-written, I felt like I was slogging through it. It’s unremittingly bleak and yet, I didn’t care about any of the characters. They get killed off right and left and I never cared.
Just finished Iron Council and Agent to the Stars Read More »
As you might recall, last year I decided to stop writing Good Housekeeping during NaNoWriMo after two weeks and 25,000 words. I stopped because we were moving to Iceland and decided that it would make me crazy to get the wordcount done, plus pack, plus go to Woodthrush Woods for the holidays. At the time,