Hot, hot, hot. Our high was 98˚F, with the heat index at 105˚F.

I was up at 6:30 a.m., and by 9:30 I'd done another six story notes for Bradbury Weather: "The Worm in My Mind's Eye," "Tall Bodies," "Paleozoic Annunciation," "Our Lady of Tharsis Tholus," and "The Road of Needles ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. The clouds arrived late in the afternoon. Our high was only 73˚F. Currently it's 60˚F.

Toady I finished reading Peter Straub's Ghost Story (1979) for the umpteenth time. My love for this novel is legendary, so...I won't go on and on and on again. And now I'm reading another of my favorites, Kathe Koja's Skin (1993 ( Read more... )

A rare muggy day in Rhode Island, cloudy, stormy, and a heat advisory. The heat index is threatening to top 100˚F.

And I feel like someone who hardly slept last night.

Today, I will be assembling Sirenia Digest #126. I think you'll like what your getting (unless you're not a subscriber, then you'll not care one way or another). Expect the issue ( Read more... )

I think that I am writing postcards to myself.

Increasingly, I find even the prospect of self-promotion to be distasteful. I know that I have to do it. All writers have to do it. Even the high-priced, classy writers with genuine pimps usually find it necessary to stoop to the self-promotion that's the only option for literary crack whores like me ( Read more... )

I could spend days attempting to explain how surreal my life has become, but I'd fail. However, among the many ironies, I've spent my life taking every conceivable manner of shit for being a leftist, for being queer, atheist, pacifist, a humanist, transsexual, for being pro-choice, for trying to push back against every form of social, intellectual ( Read more... )

So...

Having severely curtailed the amount of time I spend on MMOs (partly because of recent eyestrain/headache problems, partly because I was beginning to feel even less than usual that I have NO life), I'm now free to actually focus on a single MMO and get good at it. No one should try to keep up with four MMOs; it's idiotic. But what surprises ( Read more... )

My responsibility as an author, the responsibility that I have chosen, is to make readers ask themselves, "What the fuck was that?" I just tweeted this, and I posted it on Facebook. And then, to Spooky, I elaborated on it at some length. And I said, "I need to write all this down before I forget what I said," but I fear I already have. Why my ( Read more... )

Yes, it's true. Blood Oranges has received a glowing blurb from the witch who Willow Rosenberg went down on. Amber Benson says, In the conjuring of Blood Oranges, Caitlin R. Kiernan has created a pedal to the metal, balls to the wall female antihero who doesn't give a damn if you like her or not...which totally made me love her. So, I don't know. ( Read more... )

Very little time this ayem, so I'm reposting yesterday's entry, with a few amendments. I figure a lot of people don't see the LJ on Sunday anyway:

Round 3 of the "pay the taxes" eBay auction is now underway. In particular, I'll point you to the very, very, very rare original edition of In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers (Subterranean Press, 2002 ( Read more... )

Round 3 of the "pay the taxes" eBay auction is now underway. In particular, I'll point you to the very, very, very rare original edition of In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers (Subterranean Press, 2002), signed by both me and Dame Darcy. Moreover, it is made rarer by being a PC copy (presentation copy). A score for any collector. This is the first ( Read more... )