Partly sunny today. And we are nervously watching the gulf as Helene gathers strength. Our high was 90F, with a heat index of 92F ( Read more... )

Sunny this morning, but the day grew grey and drear as it wore on towards it conclusion. Our high was 63˚F, so an improvement over yesterday. It is now 60˚F ( Read more... )

Today is the official release day of The Tindalos Asset, the third in the series of "Tinfoil Dossier" novellas. This is the one I began way back in June 2017 and never would have finished were Jonathan Strahan a less patient editor. I hope you'll buy it and enjoy it. As a hardcore fan of The X-Files, I am very glad we got the release day we did ( Read more... )

No rain today. Not a bad day. Our high was a paltry 93˚F, with heat index.

I set myself on the road to work again. I had email with Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, Jonathan Strahan, Stephen Jones, and Writers House. Of, wait. Writers House was yesterday. We're choosing a reader for the Alabaster audiobook, and I have four to choose from, and ( Read more... )

Another oddly chilly day. We only reached 81˚F, and it's currently 73˚F.

But it was, generally speaking, a better day than yesterday. I exchanged emails with Bill Schafer and Jonathan Strahan. I saw the "digital ARCs" for The Tindalos Asset, and there's an abomination for you. "Digital ARCs." I watch a documentary about the sinking of the ( Read more... )

Sunny, mostly, today. We made it to 74˚F. It's now 60˚F ( Read more... )

Yeah, so they said rain, but we got sun all day, instead. I was able to leave the office window open all afternoon. We made 73˚F, and it's still 63˚F. But we have days of storms ahead.

Most of work today consisted of wrestling with a spreadsheet listing possible pronunciations for 574 words and names that appear in Two Worlds and In Between that ( Read more... )

Sunny today, which is pretty much also better than rainy. Currently, it's 58˚F.

Today Spooky helped me finish up the insanely tedious line edits on The Tindalos Asset, and I solved a couple of longstanding continuity issues, so...at least there was work, another four hours or so on the novella. Tomorrow I mail it back to Jonathan Strahan and he ( Read more... )

Another rainy day, though very warm, and there was some sunlight this morning. Our high was 68˚F, and it's still 66˚F.

I was up this morning at 7 a.m. First, after breakfast there was email with Jonathan Strahan regarding flap/ad copy for The Tindalos Asset and then email with my editor and new publicist at Tor.com. And then I wrote the abstract ( Read more... )

A cloudy day that has become a rainy night. Currently, it's 65˚F.

This morning and afternoon I worked on the glyptosaur paper and finally got a rough draft of the whole manuscript together (minus abstract and acknowledgements). Yes, I do not write fiction in drafts, but I do write scientific papers in drafts. Anyway, I also learned that Tor.com ( Read more... )