Happy Halloween

This has got to be one of my top holidays and every year I enjoy it more. Went dressed as a ninja to work where upon I discovered one coworkers had come as a mad scientist and the other a geek, which was fab. Came home stuffed with the candies we were supposed [...]

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Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

In the course of the whole Lanaia Lee plagiarism debacle at Making Light, the names of a few vanity presses surfaced. Being the curious (or possibly nosy) type, I signed up to have a look at one of them, Outskirts Press, using an old email that’s mostly a spam catcher now. Since signing [...]

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Pondering

I intended to make it to VCon this year but my plans were scuppered and I ended up spending that week the way spend every week – working, making dinner, skipping karate classes and watching eighties movies. Things could have been worse.
Still, the fact remains that I’m long overdue to attend a con. [...]

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When it’s writing vs karate, karate wins every time

Got up early to train with a sensei/friend today. It was so cold my sais popped when my hands started to warm them up. To keep warm we spent most of the time doing kata and kept hands nimble by flipping the sias. Endlessly, endlessly flipping. I’ve finally got quite good [...]

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Winner!

Congratulations to Lee Harris, who won the give away copy of Cost of Freedom.  Hope ya like it!

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Accidental vanity and the great book giveaway

Three years ago, my writing was a lot different. I was finishing up my degree, working full time and finally facing the fact that my life was not going to be safe, easy or lived in pursuit of the corner office and that I was, in fact, going to be a writer.
I sent out [...]

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Haiku of the manager

I don’t know if it’s just because I’m inside more now the weather has turned cold, or if it’s because they really do appear more often, but autumn is the seasonto find them.
I see them scattered in all the common areas – the laundry, the foyer, the elevator. Occasionally they arrive under my door, [...]

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Ways I can tell

I know it’s going well because I can’t stop thinking about the characters, even at work. A few times I stood staring blankly at a customer who had obviously finished talking and was now expecting a reply. All I could do was laugh and say, “sorry, could you say that again? I [...]

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Gossip fishing

Does anyone know what happened with David Gemmell’s estate and Lanaia Lee (re: post “Once again” October 12)?  I wondered if his estate has moved to block publication of the offending book or not.

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Respect

Watching this on the Endicott Studio Channel on YouTube has increased my respect for Neil Gaiman ten, possibly twentyfold.  Favorite quote of the day is “it’s not like it’s costing them anything”.

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