Sunday, 1pm, Fairlie, in the Hyatt Regency. Yay, Dragoncon! Gathering of my people!
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September 1, 2011
May 17, 2011
I read part of “Underworld” in this month’s Broadpod. You can listen at http://broadpod.posterous.com/may-2011-celebrating-motherhood.
September 2, 2010
I’ll be reading at Dragoncon tomorrow and Saturday with Broad Universe. Friday 4pm, International C, and Saturday, 11:30am, Greenbriar.
I know, short notice. It’s been a long summer.
August 20, 2009
I’ll be reading with the Broad Universe group at Dragoncon!
The Lit Track Reading is on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 7:30 PM; Fairlee – Hyatt Regency Hotel
The Alternate History Track Reading is MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 11:30AM; Piedmont – Hyatt Regency Hotel
September 1, 2008
I work too much. I need to cut that out.
Anyway, I’m back from Dragoncon and have a possible short story idea or two, which is good because I’ve sold almost all of my short stories and only have two in circulation! I also attended a steampunk panel, which was lots of fun. Anyone want to pimp me their favorite steampunk novels/stories?
February 22, 2008
Want to be part of an experiment?
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Question: Do free ebooks help or hurt paper book sales?
Tor is offering free ebooks if you sign up with their newsletter here. They offer a different one each week–this week is Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. (If you want it and missed it, ask a friend–the email says “tell a friend” but I don’t know if they want me to, you know, post the links here, so I won’t.) The first one was only in PDF, but this week’s is in PDF, HTML, and Mobi version (yay, my PDA is so happy!).
If you hurry, you might still be able to get Scalzi’s book. Next week’s won a Hugo (SPIN by Robert Charles Wilson).
Yes, yes. You have to get their newsletter. But they pay you to receive it–in ebooks!
And, you know, if you really like the ebook and want to do something nice for the author, then you can buy a paper copy. If you don’t want your paper copy, you can give it to a friend you think would like it, or to a library or bookcrossing. You don’t have to, but if you do you can help provide data that contradicts the idea that ebooks are the END OF DAYS FOR AUTHORS ZOMG, and maybe publishers and authors will make more of ‘em, and then we’ll live in an ebook utopia. It could happen.
December 6, 2007
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel is coming soon. I haven’t seen it yet, but it has poetry by my friend Peg Duthie in it, and she is made of awesome. Therefore, you clearly want this book. You want it, you crave it, you must have it!
November 9, 2007
Lots of work for not a lot of prose, and nonfiction reading.
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My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That’s longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I’ve ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel. I’m probably going to outline even more, until I am half-mad with outlining. It’s not that I don’t like writing from an outline, it’s that I really suck at outlining. Hopefully, this will help.
In other news, if you’ve heard Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit is an excellent book, you heard right. I’m already a Twyla Tharp fan–my sister is a dancer–and she has a lot of advice for creative people of any discipline. It’s very applicable to writers. If you don’t want to buy it, go to your local public library or bookstore and fondle it. Trust me. I’ve been reading slowly through it, and finished it today.
I’m not sure if Thomas A. Limoncelli’s Time Management for System Administrators is as applicable to writers, but it is applicable to people with day jobs (especially scary devil monastery day jobs) who want to have time to write, so there you go.
August 19, 2007
I read this ages ago, but haven’t written about it here. Well, work is keeping me crazy, and my short fiction turnarounds are insane, so…
This was a very enjoyable read. I liked part one, “The Wreck of the Mary Byrd,” the best. It just appealed to me the most, structurally. I was particularly taken with the first person character introductions, where everyone explained who they were and what they were doing aboard the Mary Byrd. My favorite chapter was Chapter II, Laura Brown’s chapter, partly for the use of dialect (I tried to read part of it aloud to Brian and found myself unable to do so without a southern accent), and partly because–I admit it–I just identified with Laura’s intense hatred of the cold. (I got seasonal affective disorder in southern Virginia.)
Anyway, it was mainly the history and the voices in part one that appealed to me, although there’s also a werewolf-hunting Irish nun. Parts two and three feel a little pasted on to me, but I like part one and the history in all of them enough to overlook that. My parents met singing opera. I’ll overlook a lot if you appeal to my ear enough.
Good book. Go, read.
August 10, 2007
I think most of the people who regularly read this blog have already read this series, but for those of you who haven’t…
I love these books to complete irrational distraction, and if you haven’t read them, you should! I should probably tell you to read them for wonderful characters, clever plot twists, compelling settings, and delightful first-person voices, but I won’t, even though they have all that (and they make my ear very happy). No, I’m biased, so I’m going to tell you to read them for Mouse.
I get terrible crushes on fictional characters. It’s my way. There are lots of characters in these books that I love, including Page and the Dragon, but I adore Mouse in that special, all characters are judged by how they treat Mouse way. Therefore, I expect everyone else to love him just as much as I do.
Brian and I even agree on characters, which is a first.
