In Which I Eat Some Crow

OK, folks, well gather round. It’s facepalm time.
Well, it looks like I’ve been lying to you all (remember what I said about don’t trust anybody, me included? Heh). I’ve been saying for years that I was nominated for an Aurora Award, and it turns out that’s not the case. Mike over at File 770 noted [...]

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Bad Idea

A Boston area post-secondary institution has taken out its library and replaced it with a digital “learning center”. Which is great. If you had a couple hundred bucks on hand and wanted some cheap books and shelving (I wouldn’t say no).
It’s not so great if you’re, you know, doing any sort of non-digitally based scholarship. [...]

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TV Smashing

Those of you who heard the story might want to see the evidence. Sigh.

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Bounce

This morning I had a piece of flash fiction to read for Bill. It was… I felt… well, here’s my response. I’ve taken out all of the distinguishing characteristics about the story, and left in all the reasons I bounced it. Kids, don’t ever send stories like this to editors like me, OK?

Urg.
OK, so. This [...]

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Gah! Neighbors!

I was sitting at the computer when I heard a smoke detector go off. We live in an old building so if an alarm goes off on this floor, or the one below us, if it’s on this side of the fire doors, we hear it. So, I heard an alarm go off. Somewhere. And [...]

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Why Research is Important

Whilst hunting around for more information of the forthcoming movie of Michael Chabon’s mind-blowing book The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, I ran across this article in the Guardian.
I remember when I first encountered the alternative name for the Guardian, the Grauniad. I was in England and the folks I was staying with would always ask to [...]

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Viral Marketing Gone Awry

BoingBoing has this to say to viral marketers: Fuck off.

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Repost

So, last night I had a conversation with Tina Anderson about self publishing after I ran across her blog. She’s written a post about the cost of self publishing which is novel because it’s not just about the price of editing and printing and binding, it’s about the price of selling a book as if [...]

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And This is Why

And this is why I don’t go to the library very much. Because I see way too many books I want to read. And I have no self control.

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FYI

Tying an obi whist tipsy=very difficult. This might be the worst bow I’ve ever done.

Mental note: Tie obi on Hallowe’en yukata before drinking. Everything will go much easier.
There. That’s a little better.

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