Yesterday, I wrote an absolutely pathetic 511 words, which may or may not be viable, and I'm left wondering who will murder me first, my agent or my editor. Either way, they would be rendering upon my person a spot of mercy. To quote the astoundingly sexy and well-armed Zoe Washburne ( Read more... )

Comments would be good today ( Read more... )

I'm trying to concentrate, but it's sort of hard to focus on writing when I was already having trouble focusing before a kitten and the Martian rover landing got thrown into the mix (and missing the Olympics, but that pales to nothing next to Curiosity's impending descent). And, too, Jonathan Hardy (the voice of Dominar Rygel VXI) has died. And so ( Read more... )

A forecast high of 78˚F today, and sunny. And I still can't leave this keyboard.

There's inexplicability in that second sentence. Well, in its relationship to the first.

A couple of years before I left Atlanta, when I was still only talking about moving to Rhode Island, grandmofhelsing declared (it was a declaration) that I would not be able to endure a single ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the comments of late. Warms my cockles (so to speak), so please keep 'em coming ( Read more... )

I want to make a promise to you, the reader. And I don't know if I can fulfill it tomorrow, or even the day after that. But I put the bastards of this world on notice that I do not have their best interests at heart. I will try and speak for my reader. That is my promise. And it will be a voice made of ink and rage. ~ Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum ( Read more... )

Honestly? Getting my first tattoo doesn't make nearly one quarter the interesting story I'd thought it would. The experience was both exhilarating and mundane. Like eating your first habañero. On the one hand, well, so this is what it's like to experience the taste sensation of 100,000-350,000 on the Scoville scale, but on the other....how many ( Read more... )

Awaking from an especially horrible nightmare this morning, maybe an hour and a half ago, and I still haven't shaken it off. For a long time, they weren't an issue, but the Lamictal can make them more vivid, and I recently upped the dosage to 350 mg. So, for now, the vivid dreams are back. My past rains down on me while I sleep, the might have ( Read more... )

I'm hearing delicious things about the Prometheus Director's Cut, to be released in October. Like more conversation between David 8 and the Engineer. Oh, and here's translation of what, in the theatrical cut, was said by David, courtesy the linguist who created the Engineer's alien language:

David: ida hmanəm aɪ kja namṛtuh zdℇ:taha … ghʷɪvah- ( Read more... )

I'll get back to the Prometheus review tomorrow. Meanwhile, here's the Publishers Weekly review of Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart:

This impressive collection of 25 “weird romance” stories (all previously published in Kiernan’s monthly e-zine, Sirenia Digest, between 2007 and 2009) is laden with dark little gems that blur the boundaries ( Read more... )