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November 2, 2013
In the Strait
After 44 hours of airplanes, airports, a bus ride on a Third World road, a voyage on a Third World boat, I made it to my current location just in time for the sun to set behind the local volcano.I’m going to wash off the travel and go to bed.
October 30, 2013
Open Topic
Since I’m going to be flying a dozen time zones in the next couple days, I’m not going to be here much. So I’m going to do as friend of the blog TRX suggested recently, and have an open topic.
If you have any questions, want to make any announcements, or have any good jokes, feel free to make use of this space.
Just be polite, and turn off the lights while you leave.
If you have any questions, want to make any announcements, or have any good jokes, feel free to make use of this space.
Just be polite, and turn off the lights while you leave.
Going Bamboo
I had one of those birthdays just recently, one with a zero in it that’s supposed to be a landmark of some sort.So, in the spirit of flipping the bird at my birthday, I’m getting on a plane today and going to Indonesia for nearly three weeks. I’ll be mostly on the island of Sulawesi, formerly Celebes, and I’ll be doing scads of research both above and under the water, and contemplating the sea, volcanoes, and my own immortality.
There’s supposedly internet where I’m going to be, so I’ll try to...
The Rift: Now at Smashwords!
For those of you waiting, The Riftis finally available at Smashwords, though only in epub format. It seemed to choke on anything else, and I couldn’t tell if that was their fault, or that of the manuscript. From Smashwords it will migrate to Sony, iBooks, Diesel, and other sites.
And naturally it’s still available atAmazon,Nook, andKobo.
And naturally it’s still available atAmazon,Nook, andKobo.
October 28, 2013
Rifting Down the Mississippi
Some thoughts on my novelThe Rift,which has now been re-released in electronic form, and is available via Amazon, Nook, andKobo. (I’ve been trying to load and convert the file ontoSmashwords for something like 30 hours, and it seems to have comprehensively crashed. All I can get now is “500 Internal Server Error,” which can’t be good.)The Riftwas my biggest book in the most literal way. 310,000 words, about the size of A Game of Thrones, so large that it tested the limits of the bookbinder’s...
Best
Hey, check it out! My novella “The Boolean Gate” is available in the collection The Year’s Top Shott SF Novels 3! Along with other fine stories by Robert Reed, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, and Stephen Popkes.Available both in Kindle and audio editions! Here’s your amazon link.
October 27, 2013
Vampire Slayer Classic
Every two years, the talented and lovely Patricia Rogers, who had the good fortune to be born on All Hallows Eve, hosts a massive and dazzling Hallowe’en party. In the past, she’s decorated her house to look like an Egyptian tomb, the castle of Prince Prospero, and a hoodoo shack from the Louisiana swamps.Last night’s party was on the theme of Dracula. A good many of Vlad’s victims were impaled on stakes in the pumpkin patch, eerie ghost lights shone in the trees, a witch’s cauldron burbled o...
October 23, 2013
Drawing Closer
Here we have a study for the upcoming re-release of my novelThe Rift, by the artist/designer Ares Jun.
This study for my earthquake novel was delayed because the part of the Philippines where Ares lives was hit by a 7.2 earthquake a few days ago. My heart goes out to the people of Bohol, who suffered over 100 dead and the destruction of many historical buildings.
InThe Rift, the characters are faced with the reality of a world, indeed a universe, where destruction and violence can happen at any...
This study for my earthquake novel was delayed because the part of the Philippines where Ares lives was hit by a 7.2 earthquake a few days ago. My heart goes out to the people of Bohol, who suffered over 100 dead and the destruction of many historical buildings.
InThe Rift, the characters are faced with the reality of a world, indeed a universe, where destruction and violence can happen at any...
October 22, 2013
Wedding Pictures
More pictures from the wedding mentioned in the last post.
I told you there was a Tardis rescue vehicle, now didn’t I?
And on the shoulder of the driver, we find a tattoo of the Tardis actually paid for by David Tennant.
I told you there was a Tardis rescue vehicle, now didn’t I?And on the shoulder of the driver, we find a tattoo of the Tardis actually paid for by David Tennant.
October 21, 2013
Cake
I mentioned in my last post that one of the events of the last few days has been a wedding. What I didn’t mention was that I was the officiant.I’ve been a mail-order minister for decades, and have had the pleasure of uniting various friends and acquaintances in matrimony. When I was asked to officiate at the wedding of a couple of people I knew only very slightly, I was happy enough to oblige. It was all kind of thrown together over a couple weeks, but it came together at the last minute the...
