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Meet our new cat, name to be determined

June 26, 2014 / Journal / 21 Comments

So far, I can tell you that she’s very affectionate, has tiny little vocalizations, and looooooooves being brushed. As in, she will lie down and air-knead while you are working on her. Her fur is a little scraggly because she’s had a rough go, but I think she’ll bounce back quickly.

She and Marlowe have seen each other, but not been allowed in the same room together yet. They both are curious, but we want to give her time to feel more comfortable with the space before tossing a giant at her.

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Video: How to train your internal editor

June 26, 2014 / Journal / 3 Comments

I have this theory when I teach writing, that it’s easier to learn things if you break them into separate techniques. One of the things a writer needs to learn is how to edit. It can be totally overwhelming, which is why you’ll hear the advice about “Turn off your Internal Editor” when writing. I

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Eggless corn muffin recipe from my Great-grandma Stephens’s cookbook

June 25, 2014 / Journal / 9 Comments

I inherited three things from Grandma: two cast iron skillets, and her mother’s cookbook. This morning, I made the eggless corn muffins. 1 1/8 cup flour 1 1/8 cups yellow corn meal 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 cups sour milk 1 tablespoon melted shorting. Sift

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My Favorite Bit: Matthew Johnson talks about IRREGULAR VERBS AND OTHER STORIES

June 17, 2014 / Journal, My Favorite Bit

Matthew Johnson is joining us today with his book Irregular Verbs and Other Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description. keluarga: to move to a new village lunak: to search for something without finding it mencintai: to love for the last time Meet a guilt-ridden nurse who atones for her sins by joining her zombified patients in

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My Favorite Bit: Michael R. Underwood talks about SHIELD AND CROCUS

June 10, 2014 / Journal, My Favorite Bit / 3 Comments

Michael R. Underwood is joining us today with his novel Shield and Crocus. Here’s the publisher’s description. In a city built among the bones of a fallen giant, a small group of heroes looks to reclaim their home from the five criminal tyrants who control it. The city of Audec-Hal sits among the bones of

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Goodbye Harriet.

June 5, 2014 / Journal / 39 Comments

We had to say goodbye to our cat Harriet today. She was fine last week, but then lethargic over the weekend and when we took her in to the vet… The decline was very fast. Rob and I spent last night cuddling with her. She was such a lap cat, that it was easy to think

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My Favorite Bit: Josh Crute talks about WEBCAMELOT

June 5, 2014 / Journal, My Favorite Bit

Josh Crute is joining us today to talk about his new web series WebCamelot, created in collaboration with David Rice and Matthew Barnette. Here’s the show’s description. In a recent discovery that rocked the historical community, archaeologists uncovered an ancient hard drive filled with video blogs dating from the reign of ARTHUR PENDRAGON, KING OF CAMELOT.

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Dancing and accounting as an expression of love. Twue wuv…

June 4, 2014 / Journal / 21 Comments

What you are about to see is not brilliant dancing. It is, instead, an example of the ways in which my husband loves me. Before we got married, I had the standard checklist that people develop on things that their partner must have. One of those, for me, was ballroom dancing. My parents met in a

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My Favorite Bit: C. Robert Cargill talks about QUEEN OF THE DARK THINGS

June 3, 2014 / Journal, My Favorite Bit

C. Robert Cargill is joining us today with his novel Queen of the Dark Things. Here’s the publisher’s description. Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that

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This is the Jay Lake genome scarf

June 2, 2014 / Journal / 5 Comments

Last year, I got a package in the mail that is the very definition of bitter-sweet. It was from Jay Lake. I say that it was bitter-sweet because I knew what it was. I’d heard Jay talk about this project. This is his genome, woven by Astrid Bear. More specifically, it’s the base pair sequence of

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Have time to beta-read a 2300 word SF short story?

May 29, 2014 / Journal / 51 Comments

I have a 2300 word short story, that I’d love to have a few beta-readers on. It’s been ages, but this is actually one I wrote just for fun so there’s no rush on feedback. Here’s a teaser. Rockets Red Watching his mother kneel awkwardly in her rented space suit, Aaron worried his lower

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American health insurance is so stupid.

May 29, 2014 / Journal / 5 Comments

I have three doctor’s appointments within the space of a week. Not because I am drastically ill, but because my insurance will not allow my doctor to bill for more than one thing at a time. All of this could have been done at one appointment, but I can’t even book them on the same day.

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My Favorite Bit: Jodi McIsaac talks about AMONG THE UNSEEN

May 29, 2014 / Journal, My Favorite Bit

Jodi McIsaac is joining us today with her novel Among the Unseen. Here’s the publisher’s description. Life just keeps getting more complicated for Cedar McLeod. As the recently crowned queen of Tír na nÓg, she’s trying to understand her magical new kingdom, even as she misses her life back on Earth. It doesn’t help that

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My Favorite Bit: Howard Tayler talks about LONGSHOREMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE

May 27, 2014 / Journal, My Favorite Bit / 3 Comments

Howard Tayler is joining us today with his book Longshoreman of the Apocalpyse. Here’s the publisher’s description. The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse follows the crew of the mercenary ship Touch-and-Go through what should have been a routine food delivery to the Credomar habitat, a human space colony that’s having some—a lot—of political problems. The contract

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Video: On tour with the Marie and Mary show

May 26, 2014 / Journal / 2 Comments

So this is what it’s like tour when Marie Brennan and I tour together.

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