Overcast. A high of 83F.

I wish I could say that today was as productive as yesterday. I managed to finish Ian Nathan's exhaustive account of the making of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth. But I don't suppose that counts as work ( Read more... )

Anyway...so, after all that, Helene swerved east and hit the Carolinas, which is why Chris and Kat were without power today. We got almost not rain or wind here in Birmingham. No flooding. No loss or power or internet. Obviously, much of the Southeast was no so fortunate. I worried all day about acquiantances in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas ( Read more... )

Overcast all day. The high was only 75F.

I had a productive day, compared to the way things have been going lately. I think it's the terror of looming insolvency and homelessness. I worked on Sirenia Digest 216 all morning. Originally, it was going to feature "A Nameless Person of Mysterious Origin," but that story is taking forever, so, intsead ( Read more... )

Still rainy, though there was briefly a little sun. The high today was 66F, sometime this morning, and it fell all day.

I spent the morning messing around with the wording in a couple of the stories in Bright Dead Star, stuff that has never felt right, and I'm still not sure it feels right. Kathryn and I are going over the book one last time on ( Read more... )

Just something quick I think. A sunny day, but cold. Pur high was only 53F.

I woke at 5:30 a.m. and was up at 6. I did a bunch of words on The Night Watchers that I hope I will still like tomorrow. I worked two hours on the Bashi Marl sample and found the largest shark's tooth to come from it yet (though, by shark tooth standards, it's still on ( Read more... )

A sunny first day of November. Our high was 72˚F.

I worked on coloring the monster doodles I owe people. Sorry this is taking so long. I truly am. I tried to start a new story for the digest but only wrote a few hundred words. My greatest achievement was going over the gigantic ms. for Bradbury Weather one last time and sending it away to ( Read more... )

Another sunny day, a little warmer than yesterday. By the middle of this coming week we'll once more be in the seasonal nineties Fahrenheit. Our high today was 82˚F.

No work. I didn't sleep especially well, and...well..I spoke of the lull that so often comes to me after I finish something big (and "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale" was big). That's ( Read more... )

Bright and sunny all day. Our high was 84˚f ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. Our high was 70˚F.

Not a lot to say for today. I spoke with Bill Schafer and with another publisher via email.

I finished Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin really excellent American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and began The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke ( Read more... )

Rainy today, and the high was 63˚F ( Read more... )