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September 19, 2011
well, how cool is that?
"After the Dragon" has been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award. It is in excellent company.
Congratulations to the other nominees!
(And thank you to![[info]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380451598i/2033940.gif)
michaeldthomas
for the heads up.)
Congratulations to the other nominees!
(And thank you to
michaeldthomas
for the heads up.)
September 14, 2011
for them as are interested
My story "Why Do You Linger?" (from the
elisem
necklace of that name) will appear in Subterranean 8 (the last print issue of Subterranean, which is appearing some four years after the magazine went online), in the excellent company of stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, and John Scalzi.
elisem
necklace of that name) will appear in Subterranean 8 (the last print issue of Subterranean, which is appearing some four years after the magazine went online), in the excellent company of stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, and John Scalzi.
September 11, 2011
emerging for just a moment to show you things
::emerges, blinking, from hole::
So things have been pretty hectic for me in the past couple of months. I've started a new job as a database thrall, and The Goblin Emperor should have been turned in September 1st but persists, hydra-like, in producing two new heads for every one I chop off.
There are all kinds of things that aren't getting the attention they deserve because of this (just ask Catzilla and the Plushie Ninja if you doubt me), but one thing I've failed ignominiously to do is to provide pointers to some things people who like my writing may be interested in.
(Marketing genius, ladies and gentlemen! as Peter Mulvey says.)
1. The compiled list of recommendations from #buyabiggaynovelforscottcardday is here.
2. Whedonistas , in which I along with a fuckton of awesome women have an essay, is available for the Kindle.
3. Back in the pre-The Tempering of Men-launch week,
matociquala
posted the first chapter. So, you know, if you haven't bought it yet or haven't heard that there's a sequel to A Companion to Wolves or something . . . it's still there.
(I am so bad at self-promotion, it is embarrassing.)
4. The ebooks of Shadow Unit Seasons 1-3 are available at Barnes & Noble (for the Nook) and Amazon (for the Kindle).
5. Just a note, because I should have said it here: "Absent from Felicity" will be included in Somewhere Beneath Those Waves , which I should also mention is, if you follow the link, available for pre-order.
Also, bonus item: the fabulous cover design for the new edition of The Bone Key. (Seriously. This is the best cover I have ever had. I am in love with it and want to give it chocolate.)
There. I think that does it.
::retreats back into hole::
So things have been pretty hectic for me in the past couple of months. I've started a new job as a database thrall, and The Goblin Emperor should have been turned in September 1st but persists, hydra-like, in producing two new heads for every one I chop off.
There are all kinds of things that aren't getting the attention they deserve because of this (just ask Catzilla and the Plushie Ninja if you doubt me), but one thing I've failed ignominiously to do is to provide pointers to some things people who like my writing may be interested in.
(Marketing genius, ladies and gentlemen! as Peter Mulvey says.)
1. The compiled list of recommendations from #buyabiggaynovelforscottcardday is here.
2. Whedonistas , in which I along with a fuckton of awesome women have an essay, is available for the Kindle.
3. Back in the pre-The Tempering of Men-launch week,
matociquala
posted the first chapter. So, you know, if you haven't bought it yet or haven't heard that there's a sequel to A Companion to Wolves or something . . . it's still there.(I am so bad at self-promotion, it is embarrassing.)
4. The ebooks of Shadow Unit Seasons 1-3 are available at Barnes & Noble (for the Nook) and Amazon (for the Kindle).
5. Just a note, because I should have said it here: "Absent from Felicity" will be included in Somewhere Beneath Those Waves , which I should also mention is, if you follow the link, available for pre-order.
Also, bonus item: the fabulous cover design for the new edition of The Bone Key. (Seriously. This is the best cover I have ever had. I am in love with it and want to give it chocolate.)
There. I think that does it.
::retreats back into hole::
September 6, 2011
Absent from Felicity redux
So, Orson Scott Card has apparently rewritten Hamlet* to be a didactic rant against homosexuality. (Or, more accurately, "homosexuality.")
There are all kinds of things I could say here, but they would all be based on the review rather than the actual book, and that's bad practice. So instead I would like to point out "Absent from Felicity" for those of you who would like a (quite short) alternate take on possible homosexuality in Hamlet.
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*And thank you, William Alexander, for a very trenchant review.
There are all kinds of things I could say here, but they would all be based on the review rather than the actual book, and that's bad practice. So instead I would like to point out "Absent from Felicity" for those of you who would like a (quite short) alternate take on possible homosexuality in Hamlet.
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*And thank you, William Alexander, for a very trenchant review.
September 3, 2011
August 21, 2011
August 16, 2011
let's see if I can get to 5
1. (via
cmpriest
) The search and rescue dogs of 9/11. These are wonderful photos of wonderful dogs, and they damn near make me cry.
2. The Tempering of Men launches today! (It's the sequel to A Companion to Wolves if you need that info.)
matociquala
is having a contest.
3. Speaking of
matociquala
, she made a post yesterday about the cunning ways PTSD encourages self-sabotage. And, I think, about the importance of telling the people you love that you care about them. Because they may really need to hear it.
4. Ariel the dolphin and her baby, which you may file under omg cute! or omg dolphins are awesome!.
5. First successful use of laparoscopic(!) artificial insemination with Pallas' Cats.
(Yes, I like animals. Frequently more than I like people.)
cmpriest
) The search and rescue dogs of 9/11. These are wonderful photos of wonderful dogs, and they damn near make me cry.2. The Tempering of Men launches today! (It's the sequel to A Companion to Wolves if you need that info.)
matociquala
is having a contest.3. Speaking of
matociquala
, she made a post yesterday about the cunning ways PTSD encourages self-sabotage. And, I think, about the importance of telling the people you love that you care about them. Because they may really need to hear it.4. Ariel the dolphin and her baby, which you may file under omg cute! or omg dolphins are awesome!.
5. First successful use of laparoscopic(!) artificial insemination with Pallas' Cats.
(Yes, I like animals. Frequently more than I like people.)
August 7, 2011
Anniversary
One year and one week ago today, I broke my ankle at--as it happens--a horse show.
The fact that it was a horse show was pure serendipity. I wasn't showing, and my injury was not in any way horse-related. But it lets me have one of those tidy pieces of ring composition that fiction does so often and real life so rarely. Today, at the same facility, Milo and I rode in our first schooling show. In the Intro-A test, we came in second in a field of three with a score of 54.38. In the Intro-B test, we came in third in a field of five, with a score of 59.38.
This is respectable for our very first show, and I am very happy.
The fact that it was a horse show was pure serendipity. I wasn't showing, and my injury was not in any way horse-related. But it lets me have one of those tidy pieces of ring composition that fiction does so often and real life so rarely. Today, at the same facility, Milo and I rode in our first schooling show. In the Intro-A test, we came in second in a field of three with a score of 54.38. In the Intro-B test, we came in third in a field of five, with a score of 59.38.
This is respectable for our very first show, and I am very happy.
July 22, 2011
adventures in chemistry
So, in case anybody was wondering, the RLS isn't beaten yet. It's definitely improved--it's mostly just the right leg now, except on really bad nights, and it's not as miserablely awful. But it's still bad enough that I can't sleep until it lets go. I've started thinking of it as a very small dragon flexing its claws in my right quadriceps; when the dragon goes to sleep, so can I.
But this lack of sleep is interfering with basically everything, including my writing, and most specifically the revisions to The Goblin Emperor which I need to have done by September first. Mostly what's been happening lately is that I open the file and then just stare at it sadly, kind of like this:
(Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving)
This is not a good state of affairs.
So I let my doctor at the sleep clinic prescribe temazepam (brand name Restoril), even though I do not like sleeping pills, and I tried it last night.
It was an interesting experience.
It did work (Ambien didn't), but it seemed to send my body to sleep well before my mind, so I lay there for I don't know how long, being aware that my body had become this great inert LUMP. On the other hand, it worked on the dragon, too, so there was a certain amount of pleasure simply in being aware that my right thigh wasn't doing the latent-twitch thing that it does almost all the time these days. (It's not that I'm actually twitching; it's that my right quadriceps feels like it's about to twitch. CONSTANTLY.) And I know I did sleep, because I had weird dreams (that part, at least, is comfortingly familiar), and I slept for what must be about twelve hours.
On the other other hand, I feel disassociated and unsteady and not particularly well rested--although that last may be attributable to chronic lack of sleep rather than the temazepam. So I'll keep taking it, at least for another couple days (yes, I am hyper-vigilant about that whole chemical-dependency thing, thank you), but I'm in no danger of coming to like it.
But this lack of sleep is interfering with basically everything, including my writing, and most specifically the revisions to The Goblin Emperor which I need to have done by September first. Mostly what's been happening lately is that I open the file and then just stare at it sadly, kind of like this:
(Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving)
This is not a good state of affairs.
So I let my doctor at the sleep clinic prescribe temazepam (brand name Restoril), even though I do not like sleeping pills, and I tried it last night.
It was an interesting experience.
It did work (Ambien didn't), but it seemed to send my body to sleep well before my mind, so I lay there for I don't know how long, being aware that my body had become this great inert LUMP. On the other hand, it worked on the dragon, too, so there was a certain amount of pleasure simply in being aware that my right thigh wasn't doing the latent-twitch thing that it does almost all the time these days. (It's not that I'm actually twitching; it's that my right quadriceps feels like it's about to twitch. CONSTANTLY.) And I know I did sleep, because I had weird dreams (that part, at least, is comfortingly familiar), and I slept for what must be about twelve hours.
On the other other hand, I feel disassociated and unsteady and not particularly well rested--although that last may be attributable to chronic lack of sleep rather than the temazepam. So I'll keep taking it, at least for another couple days (yes, I am hyper-vigilant about that whole chemical-dependency thing, thank you), but I'm in no danger of coming to like it.
