Posted in Karate, Kobudo, Martial Arts, Personal, Rants on May 31, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Here it is. Warnings: My opinion lies ahead. You may not like it. Also! Much swearing.
So I picked up this book by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman entitled On Killing a little while ago. I picked it up because I was encountering a lot of people who were assuming two things that I was not sure [...]
Posted in Day Job, Note to Self, Writing on May 31, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve been neglecting my work because I’ve been working so much at my day job. I have three books I want to get written this year and I’m honestly not sure what the odds of getting them all done are. I’m really fighting with this new novel, I’m starting to get interested in a novel [...]
Posted in Funny, Links, books on May 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Ha ha ha! *breathes* Ha ha ha!
Posted in Publishing, books on May 29, 2009 | Comments Off
A short intro to an ebook on book piracy. Erm. Yeah. (via Genre Reviews)
Posted in Homemakery, Recipes on May 29, 2009 | Comments Off
I had this jar of last year’s rosemary that I needed to use up. So I made ice cream (here’s how), but instead of infusing vanilla into the cream, I melted the chocolate and then stirred in a palmful of the rosemary in. I let that steep while I cooked the egg and strained it [...]
A while ago I said I thought the government wasn’t reading its own proposed legislation and I’m sure I’m not the only one who pointed out the proposed changes to Canada’s copyright legislation were awfully close to the US’s phenomenally unsuccessful and profoundly misguided laws. Well, it seems I was more right than I knew.
*sigh*
Posted in Personal, Writing on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well holy shit. I came back from my MHB to find Handbook is at 3 and Tenth Man is at 7. Thanks, guys. This is freakin’ awesome.
I didn’t actually not work today (erk! Double negatives!). I did author stuff, went and did a coffee-related photo shoot and then came home, did laundry, made ice [...]
Posted in News on May 27, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m taking a leaf from Hayden Thorne’s book and having a mental health day tonight and tomorrow. Expect no bloggery for 24 hrs.
Posted in Live Novel Project, Writing on May 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
More drivel is up at the live novel project.
The writing is changing. I don’t know if you’ll be able to tell that Tien went from a pain in the ass aged monk to a young man who doesn’t mind dishing out some sass. Unfortunately, Jin went from cool 30 year old dude to wimpy [...]
Posted in Book sales, Day Job, Handbook, books on May 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I ordered books from Amazon ages ago and they finally arrived. That means this afternoon I’ll be curling up with a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which looks like it’ll be of underwear soiling quality, and Atlanta Nights, which may also be hysterical, but in a different way.
I also got some more books [...]
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