There's lots of stuff I've been wanting to write about.  Teaching (fun and challenging).  Hollins (lovely and friendly).  The books I've been reading (joining the happy chorus on Linnets and Valerians).  But the other thing about teaching (particularly when it's been years since I actually taught a real course, and never a creative writing course) ( Read more... )

The spam has gotten to me at last.  I've turned off Anonymous posting.  I held out as long as I could, but really.  

Feeling somewhat crabby, owing to Viking having politely declined to publish the third volume of the New York Between series, aka The Dragon of Wall Street.  And after I'd gone to all the trouble of making up a plot and everything.

These things happen.  But we do not have to like them.

In other news, I have spent a useful day taking apart Chapter 11 ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm behind. And the trip is almost over. Which is just as well, because at Brick Lane market (or perhaps Spitalfields) a latter-day Artful Dodger boosted my brand new iPhone from my purse ( Read more... )

No, we didn't run away to Maine forever.  Although it was a near thing.  If it hadn't been for the fact that the fog was so bad you couldn't even see the rugosa hedge, plus it was raining, plus it was getting hot, plus the humidity was finding points to hit above 100%, we might be there yet.  But that would have meant missing spending time with ( Read more... )

Well, I downloaded Dropbox and it's not quite as techophobe-friendly as it might be (but then nothing is), but I think it's going to be OK.  Unless I froze it asking it to upload too many files at once.  Which I might have done.  It's not clear ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of trouble getting an external hard drive to play nicely (or, indeed, at all) with my Mac, and have decided that the best thing all around (not to mention the most likely to happen fast) is to sign up with an online back-up service ( Read more... )

With the kind assistance of doctorwicked (upon whose head be the blessings of the technophobe, for he is non-technical and clear), I have successfully formatted .rtf and Word docs into .txt with carriage returns and everything, just like a real manuscripts. Now I have to load them onto my Kindle ( Read more... )

I am faced with many fine submissions to Interfictions 2, the imminent arrival of my Kindle, and the necessity of loading the former onto the latter in as reader-friendly a format as possible, so I can start the official Reading Period on Dec. 1, as promised. The stories have mostly been sent in .rtf files ( Read more... )

We're off again.

EK's The Privilege of the Sword is being published in France, and she has been invited to be a guest at Utopiales in Nantes. I am, of course, a Spouse in Tow, which is going to be restful. My intention is to hold down the bar, visit the art exhibition, buy a few bandes dessinees, explore Nantes, and generally behave like the Fan ( Read more... )