News For TodayTentative WisCon programming stuff is out now. I am on the Shakespeare Got To Get Paid, Son panel on Saturday, one on self-publishing and one on cross-promotion on Sunday. I've put myself forward for the Long Tail panel, which was listed as needing volunteers. That's also on Sunday. If I'm not placed on that one I'll still use the ( Read more... )

What, this is still sitting in my browser? Dang, I thought I posted this already. Guess I'm still a little spacey.

News For TodayMy plans continue to take shape. I've decided to slow down the pace of going over old chapters of Tales of MU. I had planned on doing four or five a day for the purely arbitrary reason that it would let me get the first ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is preparing to cut the umbilical cord of cable TV and go all internet, something that I did quite a while ago when I felt like my TV-consuming life was becoming unmanageable. I suppose it helps that I've never been the sort of person who needs (or necessarily wants) for something to be on "in the background" or just to provide ( Read more... )

So, I promised to make a post about Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Needs More Names Cooney's novella The Big Bah-HaThe best review of it (and the highest praise for its author) that I could offer have already been said in the introduction to the book by Nicole Kornher-Stace. Specifically, the first three paragraphs. I'm just going to excerpt some of the ( Read more... )

This one's really not that easy to do. I have a pretty good life. There are parts of it that could use some improving, but they are by and large improving. Anyway, I'm sitting here typing this at the dining room table in a condo in a lovely little town outside of Tampa, Florida called Dunedin. I paid nothing to be here. Yesterday I was at Epcot in ( Read more... )

Just the other day I was telling Jack how it would be kind of nice to go spend a week and a half with my parents with only my little netbook... living at the dollhouse makes it hard for me to get up and walk away from the computer, because there are a limited number of directions in which I can walk that will not just take me to another computer. ( Read more... )

...but in fact it's a few links that are related in my head ( Read more... )

Random Link

So I slept through a message from popelizbet last night that this morning has turned me on to something so amazing that I'm putting the link up top instead of at the bottom of this post.

Apparently, at some point when I wasn't looking, Cat Valente wrote Deathless, a novel about Russian fairy tales set in the Stalinist era. It's not out yet, but ( Read more... )

News For Today

Well, the dollhouse is now down one human occupant, which means there will be more times that I have the house to myself, which is often nice.

When I finish and post chapter 476 today, that will be three chapters in one week, and they aren't even drastically shortened... one of them approached 4,000 words.

Personal AssessmentMy ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back at the Dollhouse after my time at the Doghouse... that is, at my parents' house, watching their property and dogs for them while they were away. My mother asked me if I'd like to do it regularly, but I declined. It took a lot out of me. I think I could do it again without being so drained because a big part of it was the learning ( Read more... )