Howard Hughes and Aunt Beast Walk Into a Bar...

[greygirlbeast]

Talk to me, kittens. Today, we have salmagundi:

1) A new review of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir at the Strange Horizons website has made me momentarily very happy (don't worry, it never lingers). It's the most cogent review of the book I've read since Brit Mandelo's at Tor.com (which you can read here). Anyway, you'll find the Strange Horizon's

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[alumiere]

We have added floating bookshelves to many of our walls about 6' up (low ceilings here, but very little free wall space either between windows and furniture) which hold a good amount of books, that might be a solution to help with your bookspace issue. They look like these: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=floating+shelves&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=11065582558463224652&sa=X&ei=JeKiT9fyL6SqiQKXgq3-DA&ved=0CLABEPMCMAI Using 75 lb rated drywall anchors that screw in and the metal framing that the floating shelves came with gets said shelves rated for 200 lbs of weight across four feet of length; the anchors themselves would rate each at 300lbs. Each has ~100-150 pounds of books, etc on them and I don't worry about the cat jumping up on

[greygirlbeast]

Our problem with mounting shelves on walls (or even hanging pictures) is that the buildings walls are reinforced with steel hurricane braces, making it almost impossible to hang anything.

[greygirlbeast]

So, in other words, fuck it.

Pretty much.

[ashlyme]

Good review! Niall A is a pretty good critic. And well done on the Locus nomination.

[greygirlbeast]

Thank you.

[poesillchild]

"For those backers awaiting the highest three tier rewards on our The Tale of the Ravens Kickstarter, I should say what you're really waiting on is me to find time, and get off my fat ass, and write the story to accompany the illustrations. Your patience has been amazing and much appreciated, and I'll get to this in May, I swear, with dog as my witness."

Hey, good things to those who wait and don't stir things up.
Can't wait to get the Free Comic Book Day story this Saturday.

Cheers
Jeff

[greygirlbeast]

Hey, good things to those who wait and don't stir things up.

That's my philosophy. I will say, we've not had a single backer complain about the delays.

[sovay]

. Anyway, you'll find the Strange Horizon's review by following this rabbit hole, and thank you, Niall Alexander.

"This, then, is a book of lies, yet there is truth to it, too. "

That is very, very nice: and worthy. Congratulations.

[greygirlbeast]

Thank you. I adored that line.