Comments | greygirlbeast: "Someone turn me round. Can I start this again?"

greygirlbeast

"Someone turn me round. Can I start this again?"

Jan 31, 2009 12:03

I think I'm simply going to stop trying to sleep. I'll avoid the nightmares, and won't have to complain about insomnia.

All of yesterday was spent proofing and editing "The Belated Burial" and "The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherazade" for Sirenia Digest #38, and laying out the issue. And I might have even gotten it out to subscribers last ( Read more... )

dls, insomnia, dreams, sirenia, winter, rhode island, the red tree

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alumiere January 31 2009, 17:01:08 UTC

those are beautiful pictures, thank you

i'm very much looking forward to the new sirenia digest - i've loved poe's writing since i was about 6 and i found mom's copy of some of his short stories in grandma's attic

and getting to hear you read some of your stories will be excellent as well

jtglover January 31 2009, 17:06:56 UTC

Beautiful! My one visit to Pawtucket was summertime, and it wasn't nearly so pretty. The mill + river shot is especially nice.

Remember when writers just, you know, wrote?

I just finished reading an SF novel written by an author who has neither Web presence nor online interviews, so far as I can tell. There's precious little biographical data, no non-fiction pieces by him, etc. The book was better than average, but the author just isn't talking much if he's online. It took some poking around before I learned that the one I'd read was actually his second novel. His third novel was released this year and I never heard a word about it. All that to say, he's apparently focusing on the writing itself, which is impressive, but I wonder what effect his silence has had on his sales, and if he cares.

humglum January 31 2009, 17:55:14 UTC

My one visit to Pawtucket was summertime, and it wasn't nearly so pretty.

That was my impression, as well, after having seen it in the Summer. It wears snow well, I think.

Unrelated: jtglover January 31 2009, 17:51:45 UTC

Clockwork trilobite.

Re: Unrelated: chris_walsh January 31 2009, 18:26:09 UTC

You beat me to it. Well played. (I first saw it here. I figured "steampunk trilobite" was also a good name.)

Re: Unrelated: jtglover January 31 2009, 20:25:19 UTC

Great minds, etc. ;-) What do you look for at io9? The last few times I've popped by, they've been doing a "best SF movies EVAR"-type thing, but listing only movies made since 2004, or something idiotic like that. I have liked the VanderMeers' art column...

Re: Unrelated: chris_walsh January 31 2009, 22:12:13 UTC

I haven't looked at it much, so any answer by me would be an uninteresting one. (Unless I made up a reason. "The girls in the Sci-Fi Suicide Girls section of io9 are HAWT, I tell ya. Antennae are SO Teh Sexay.")

(I apologize to greygirlbeast for my gratuitous and grating misspelling-speak. I did try using it for comedic purposes.)

sovay January 31 2009, 18:06:43 UTC

"Sylvanus Brown" is a terrific name. Those are lovely, wintry photographs.

greygirlbeast January 31 2009, 18:09:34 UTC

"Sylvanus Brown" is a terrific name.

Yep. I might have to use it somewhere.

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greygirlbeast January 31 2009, 18:32:07 UTC

I see that Shah left The Flaming Fist. Did the guild go bad?

The guild never went good. I finally tired of the lolchat.