Cloudy when I got up (late) this morning, then sunny, now cloudy again, and sorta windy. Our high was 79˚F ( Read more... )

Yeah, so...weird day yesterday. Weirder day today. Yesterday was devoured by a doctor's appointment. The whole damn day. And them, last night, I slept four hours and woke at 4 a.m., unable to get back to sleep, a long prolegomenon for Sirenia Digest 195 hammering about my skull. At 5 a.m., I gave up, got out of bed, made scrambled eggs and coffee, ( Read more... )

No sun to speak of today, but warm. Currently, it's 61˚F.

Not much progress on the new story today, just some proofreading and line edits. I talked with Bill Schafer about cover art, and I talked with Pete Crowther about a new edition of Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart. I drew monster doodles for eBay customers. And someone at Bustle, which ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, at least it was warmer today, mid or high sixties, but I didn't go outside until about twilight. Still, it was warmer. Currently, it's 53˚F.

I wrote 1,057 words on an as-yet-untitled piece for Sirenia Digest 158. Spooky likes it. She read today's pages and said, "You haven't written anything like this in a long time ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Harlan Ellison died. I want to write something about how much Harlan meant to me, about his acts of kindness towards me, his friendship and encouragement, about his importance to my own work, about how I never stopped being in awe (and a little afraid) of him. He was a giant, and the best I have ever managed is to stand on the shoulders ( Read more... )

I count yesterday as the first day of Spring 2018, at least as far as Providence, Rhode Island is concerned. We made it into the low sixties and there was only a little chill in the air. The trees are finally getting green. I don't think I've ever seen spring come so late. I was able to leave my office window until after dinner, until twilight. ( Read more... )

Cold and clear this morning. Currently, it's 43˚F, with the windchill at 39˚F.

Yesterday, I finished (finally) with the galleys for the Tor.com edition of Black Helicopters and also with the galleys for the PS Publishing edition of The Ammonite Violin & Others. I dealt with the line edits to "Fairy Tale of Wood Street" and sent a new ms. to ( Read more... )

Mostly cloudy this morning, and it's currently 38˚F, 33˚F ( Read more... )

Stay in the shadows.
Cheer at the gallows.
This is a round up. ~ Radiohead, "Burn the Witch ( Read more... )

Day before yesterday, the mail brought me a royalty check for $74 (The Drowning Girl, audiobook) and news that my agent had sent a copy of Silk to a Russian publisher. I get charged for that. Presumably, there's a Russian publisher interested in doing a translation. No one tells me anything. But with royalty checks like that, retirement is surely ( Read more... )