(mirrored from my blog)

It's been just over a month since I started with Angry Robot Books as the North American Sales & Marketing Manager.

Here are some thoughts on the new job:

• The working environment is awesome. I liked my Wybel gig, but my co-workers at AR are much more My Kind of People. Everyone is in the genre fiction world, so my geekdom isn't ( Read more... )

I talk about my awesome time at WorldCon over on my blog:

http://michaelrunderwood.com/2012/09/06/worldcon-report/

- Leave a comment with your favorite BAKED GOOD.
- I'll respond by asking you five question.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions, if you so choose.

Questions from gollumgollum

1. Have you ever actually had Bacon Chocolate Buttercream Cupcakes, and were they really better ( Read more... )

As in previous years, I'm participating in the Clarion West 2010 Write-a-Thon.  This year the workshop welcomes back Graham Joyce, who was a teacher in the 2007 workshop when I attended.

Clarion West was a life-and-craft-changing experience and I'm always happy to support the organization.

The idea for the Write-a-Thon is for other writers to pledge ( Read more... )

You can read my first-ever published short story now at http://www.crossedgenres.com!

W00t!

I just paid for my attending membership to World Fantasy for this fall. The nice thing about not having any plans to move away from Indiana means that the trip to Columbus should be far far cheaper than flying to San Fran last year.

Who on my mighty Flist is looking at going this year?

I've got some embloggenated thoughts on Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution over at 21st Century Geeks:

http://geektheory.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/jamie-olivers-food-revolution/

Having spent most of a week in Iowa, I have this to say:
( Five things about Iowa )

I finished my first play-through of Mass Effect 2 today. I re-worked my ME1 character to a Vanguard, though Charge turned out to be a bad idea most of the time. Paragon all the way, bright shiny space knight ( Read more... )

I got a call from the GeekSquad that Yoshi, my former laptop, was D.E.D. Ded. But, since I had a full warranty, They had me come in to pick out a replacement ( Read more... )