For those who wrote to me about proofreading: I will get back to you. But it's (1) a weekend, and (2) the 3rd (and worst, so far) day of me having the flu. I spent it in bed. Now I'm going to have some tea and feel sorry for myself for a bit. :-)

I just wanted you to know I'm not ignoring you all.

Well, it's official and I can talk about it now, in that unless the creeks rise and/or there's a disaster on the order of the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Windhaven Press is officially the book production company producing the Virginia Edition of the complete works of Robert A. Heinlein for the trust that oversees RAH's work; the trust is the ( Read more... )

While I see all my friends off on fabulous vacations either now, just recently, or in the near future, here are my plans for the holiday weekend here in the States ( Read more... )

Since baron_elric left for DC, my work has gone from little to none. I have (had?) one client left that was sending me steady work for a half-decent rate: Wiley.

Then two weeks ago my main contact there left. I was left with only one contact.

Today she tells me that she's leaving next weekPrayer, folks. I need work desperately. Pray that something will turn ( Read more... )

You may have gathered by now that Windhaven Press will be producing Leaving Babylon, a gift-book-sized (small paperback) edition by ginmar in the next month and a half or so. We're rushing to do a super-short run of 100 signed limited edition books. It will be about 216-248pp (castoff TK) and have a lovely color cover from a series of photos from Iraq by ( Read more... )

"... the tension was as thick and weighty as a lead coffin."

And if the author doesn't stop with the bad similes, it's going to be the death of me.

For the love of God, Montreseor!

Oh, Lord. I didn't think the similes in this "romance" book could get much worse or more convoluted or more, well, mindless. Bad is one thing, jaded is one thing, but meaningless is quite another.

I was naively wrong. That's me, always thinking the best of people.

"... a silence as loud as the gunfire crashed like a bomb."I feel like a ( Read more... )

I'm working on a "romance" book that has pretensions to being a paramilitary thriller. It's ... unique. Similes -- jaded, overused similes -- litter the pages. It's as if someone decided to write "Philip Marlowe meets Rotmance ( Read more... )

I will be at Arisia in Cambridge, MA, on Saturday, January 13. I'm on one panel, in the Art programming ( Read more... )

Dear Senior (in-house) Designer who is clearly covering his ass ( Read more... )