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Pina Bausch died Tuesday

...and this evening is the first I've heard about it. She was an innovative and fascinating modern choreographer and I always loved to see her dances, even if I didn't always enjoy them. She died of cancer five days after being diagnosed.
Choreographer Renowned for Innovative, Unconventional Works

Photos from Seattle and the Locus Award Weekend

Unfortunately, I screwed up the sets and put a bunch of sunsets, etc into the people set and I don't want to have to delete a bunch and start again...
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July/August Discover

I was hired to commission and edit three sf short-shorts for the special Invisible Planet (the Science we Don't see) double issue of Discover Magazine.

It's out now, with 1,000 word stories by Bruce Sterling and Paul McAuley. Cory Doctorow's story will be in a future issue.

My Readercon program (tentative)

This does not included autographings or kaffeeklatsches or anything else

Friday: 11am The Seeds of Poe: Two Anthologies
Suzy McKee Charnas, Ellen Datlow, Elizabeth Hand, Delia Sherman, Peter Straub, Gary Wolfe--Gary is moderating

Saturday: 10 am Short Horror Fiction: The Art (and Market)
Laird Barron, Jeanne Cavelos, Ellen Datlow, Adam Golaski, Paul Tremblay--Laird Barron moderating

Sunday: 1pm The Year in Short Fiction
Neil Clarke, Douglas Cohen, Kathryn Cramer, Ellen Datlow, Theodora Goss--Theodora

Busy with traveling, family, and work

Sorry I've been so quiet here but when I haven't been visiting my parents in Yonkers, I've been traveling (had a great time in Seattle at the Locus award weekend), and working. So I haven't been keeping up with my lj friends or facebook at all. But I AM alive and well.

And my dad is slowly recuperating. Tuesday there will be a meeting with the therapists and nurses to discuss his status. My parents and my sister and I are currently discussing (yes, my dad participating) whether they will stay i

Locus awards

As many of you already know, I won the Locus award for Best Editor. I was surprised (very) and pleased. Running around from early this morning to just now (12:46am in Seattle) I'm wiped out-- but congratulations to all the other winners.

Lies lies lies

Thank you, Andrew Zack, for laying it out in black and white--I despise bookscan because it has consistently under reported my sales (for which, I have, of course, the royalty statements). Bookscan is an author's enemy, there's no doubt in my mind and I've been saying this since its debut.
The Lie that is Bookscan

update on dad

Monday night my mom called and asked me to stay over Tuesday because she was very upset and didn't think she could stand being alone. So I went up to Yonkers, we visited my dad (who was much better), shopped for an electric razor for him, and went home. She made steak for dinner and then we watched Four Weddings and a Funeral, which I'd loved the first time I saw it and love this time. I was worried my mother would get upset by the funeral but she was ok.

Today we went to St Joe's and got there

Dad update

My mom picked me up at the train station at noon and we drove to St Joseph's. She was a wreck last night and called me 10pm and asked me to come and stay over tonight, so that's what I planned for. We couldn't get a parking space in front of the ctr so she dropped me off with several bags and parked the car elsewhere, meeting me upstairs.

My dad was in the dining hall and I brought him back to his room, which he wanted and helped him into his bed. He' s not supposed to use a walker yet until the

"Neda is My Daughter, I Have One Just Like Her"

has become the battle cry of the men and women protesting in Iran against the election. Jezebel rounds up posts/videos(the one of Neda dying is hard to take)/links. Here's Jezebel's coverage of the murder of Iranian protester Neda .