Tim Pratt's Blog, page 25

By the Yard

First thing: Chapter 4 of Broken Mirrors is live. Read, comment, tell your friends, and throw some money my way if you like what you see.

The adventure here lately revolves around house-hunting. We've been sort of kinda halfway looking for a place with a yard so we don't have to take the kid down an elevator (or the stairs when the elevator's broken, as it often is) and a few blocks to a park every time he wants to play. Alas, there aren't many places with yards in non-terrible neighborhoods...

Sleepless Miscellany

It's Monday, so that means a new chapter of Broken Mirrors is live. It's all about getting to know our antagonists!

In other news: Guhhhhh. The baby woke up at 3:30 am. He either has a minor cold or all the pollen is getting to him, triggering asthma attacks, and all the coughing woke him up... and that was it. Awake baby. "Playground?" he said. "School?" he said. He could not be convinced it was still the middle of the night. Same thing happened on Saturday night, though he woke at about...

Take it with a pinch of salt, take it to the taxman

First thing: It's Chapter 2 of Broken Mirrors! In which drastic measures are taken, and in which, at the very end of the chapter, our principle villains appear. I always love my villains... but these are my favorite villains ever. Which is good, since approximately a third of the chapters will be from their point-of-view. As always, please read, and spread the word, and donate if you can.

I got one of those heart-stopping letters on Friday: from the IRS. I don't get refunds -- because of my...

Notes Of Interest

Some links about meeee (at least in part):

Cute piece from i09 about books that should be made into movies instead of various planned remakes. Suggests that my own The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl would be a better film than a Joss Whedon-free Buffy the Vampire Slayer remake... and, you know, I have to agree!

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro has some chewy, in-depth reviews of his favorite stories from 2009, including analysis of my story "Her Voice in a Bottle" (which can still be read online for...

Librarypunk

I did a reading/talk at the Alameda Free Library on Monday; it's a beautiful space. I read "The River Boy" and "Scientific Romance" and used both as jumping-off points to discuss my approach to writing SF/fantasy (which is, basically, to use the tropes/conventions of the genres to examine emotional truths or personal issues -- but I was more specific than that). The crowd was decent -- any crowd I don't outnumber is decent! -- and had good questions. I was especially pleased to see a teen...