A dream comes true…

A little while ago I announced I was not going to buy any reading material this month. I mentioned that I had an ample supply of books lying forlorn and unloved on my shelves, all of which I had wanted to read at least once in the past, and was going to try to [...]

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Business, business, business

Welcome to those folks who haven’t yet seen the new blog, and hello again to y’all who’ve been here for a while.
A few wee small announcements to make:
As some of you know, I’m shutting down the other blog. Sorry. I know some people enjoyed the lj friends service (and so did I) but [...]

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Lacuna

Lacuna
The first night, Toven wakes with a start. There is something wrong with the quiet of the room, the absence of a weight on the other side of the bed. He pads to the door, then to the hall where a light beckons. Saul is in the bathroom. He grips the [...]

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Editing Bamboo

I wrote my first (well, let’s call is a) novel when I was eleven or twelve. Shortly thereafter, I started sending manuscripts to publishers (I’m sorry), mostly to DAW (o god, I’m really sorry), who undoubtedly wished I wouldn’t. After a while, perhaps two years of sending random manuscripts, someone in Slush cottoned [...]

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Update on Glamorousness of Writing

Have just spent an hour and a half trying to get my aged printer to print 150 pages.
The printer, which needs constant attention because it has only one wheel (the other was a victim of an exhausting round of university essays a few years back) and has a tendency to drop pages for no discernible [...]

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The Challenge

Well, I’m seventeen days into the month (aren’t we all?) and starting to feel the pinch of the Buy No Books challenge.
Usually I spend an irresponsible amount of money on reading material every month and I have a great time doing it. Recently, however, I was looking at the number of books on my [...]

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Why I don’t subscribe

 
Lately there’s been a lot of talk among writers, readers and editors about the death of short sf and f.  
Simon Haynes, the Aussie author of the Hal Spacejock series, the author of Mainspring, Jay Lake, and the man known as the Slushmaster, Douglas Cohen of RoF, have all been musing publicly on the state [...]

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Found

 this and did a little pee.

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Eeeew

I had lots of fun yesterday at a friend’s wedding.  Returned late and drunk and fell into an exhausted sleep.  I slept late and woke a little hung over, so I went down to Discovery Coffee with my husband for a bit of a pick me up.  When we got home we discovered an infestation [...]

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Coffee and Fiction

Hooray!  My business cards came in the mail and they look pretty good. More important is how they make me feel (like a freakin’ professional!) and how great it is not to have to fumble around for paper and pens every time someone wants my blog or email address. I’ve been told, too, [...]

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