I got next to nothing done that I'd had on my list to accomplish today ( Read more... )

I've been building up links to share in my e-mail (I always e-mail them to myself until I have enough for a post). I was thinking about reviewing Breaking Waves, which I've just finished, but that may wait until tomorrow. Short version: really worthwhile anthology with a wide variety of stories.

But here are your links for digestion:

• Apparently, ( Read more... )

I haven't been giving myself permission to spend time blogging while I have a chapter of Blood and Tumult due back to lyster, but I didn't want a whole week to go by without an entry. Luckily for me, Twostripe has been reading aloud to Bug and me while Bug is eating, and we just finished Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, which had an excerpt I ( Read more... )

I keep a release list on Google docs of all the upcoming books that I want to purchase. Sometimes, "upcoming" turns into "missed that pub date last month," sadly. I also keep an excel spreadsheet of all the books I've been reading (which I started because the Glamazombies, Mark Henry's mailing list community, put up spreadsheets for everyone to ( Read more... )

At every bookstore I visited (yes, I do flock to bookstores like bees to pollen), I looked on the shelves to see if I could find any of my blog buddies on the shelves. Unfortunately, the Greek alphabet requires names to be translated and transliterated, and while the results were amusing, it did mean I didn't find the people I was looking for. For ( Read more... )

So, I really should write down somewhere all the things I intend to blog about so I don't post three short entries in the space of two hours. (Maybe less. I'm not actually counting.)

I meant to mention that Ilona Andrews wrote about her connections to the funeral business over on League of Reluctant Adults today.* For the first time in what seems ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett's #2 advice for young writers.

"Let grammar, spelling and punctuation enter your life. Yes, publishers have people who will do this sort of thing-and they are called authors."

(From a promotional e-mail advertising the (re?)publication of Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb.)

It is the day after a convention, and my brain is still in what I'm now calling ConSpace. This is a state of existence that is not coherent, and creates such good ideas as having beans on toast for lunch, getting out the lunch supplies, and making myself a cup of tea instead, then forgetting about lunch for an hour ( Read more... )

All of you who are reading this are probably already aware of my book, out there in the ether, and how it's not on Amazon (as I know I probably grumble about that more than I ought). Due to some hacker issues on the White Silver Publishing Web site, it's not currently self-evidently available there. This means, at the moment, it is near impossible ( Read more... )