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A Secret History

"Let's face it, the SF Ghetto was constructed from the inside out and zealously maintained from within." At io9, an article on James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel's new anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction (Tachyon, 2009).

Smart Things (Updated)

Heyo, I wanted to put up a couple of smart thing links before I go out the door to St. Louis. I think that when I get back I will finally be able to get back on the blogging band wagon and do some travel posts and some writing posts and the like. See you then...oh, right the smart things.

My friend Beth Hanggeli saying smart things about being a writer and showing off your work. Also, off the topic of writing, wise things about lasts.

And Michael Stackpole dissects Cory Doctorow's "experiment"...

Smart Things

Heyo, I wanted to put up a couple of smart thing links before I go out the door to St. Louis. I think that when I get back I will finally be able to get back on the blogging band wagon and do some travel posts and some writing posts and the like. See you then...oh, right the smart things.

My friend Beth Hanggeli saying smart things about being a writer and showing off your work. Also, off the topic of writing, wise things about lasts.

And Michael Stackpole dissects Cory Doctorow's "experiment"...

Scotland pics

As most of you know I'm just back from Scotland. In fact, pictures have been requested. I've currently got them up at Facebook. This post is by way of an experiment that should make them visible to anyone via these links.

Glasgow and Dalkeith.

Highlands and Skye.

Highlands and Eilean Donan Castle

Edinburgh big picture.

Edinburgh bits and pieces.

Falkirk Wheel and Linlithgow Palace.

Dr. Who Exhibit (Glasgow).

The flight home: aerial shots of Greenland

Monday Morning, WIP

What are you all up to on this fine, gray day?

Me, I'm drinking a bit of coffee and getting ready to head out for a day of writing (revising, really,) with some fellow Wyrdsmiths. I have a few more days before the revisions for Tate's last Garnet book is due at the publisher and I'll likely need them. I've discovered that a lot of what was okay for a book in the middle of a series doesn't fly for the last one. So I've been kept busy tying off loose ends and such.

Then I really need to update my...

Scotland Jet Lag Belated Cat Blogging

This is not my beautiful cat...this is a woolie coo:



These are not my beautiful cats...these are Scottish wild boar piglets:



This is not my beautiful cat, this is momma wild sow:



This is my beautiful cat, Meglet:



And Ashbless:



Look, another piglet:



Isabelle has a bear in a kilt:



Drip drop lap lap:

What, No Cats?

I guess it's safe to poke my head up, then!

Fear and Writing

I finally got around to looking through some of the "Smart Things" Kelly posted yesterday, and wanted to riff a little on what Jim C. Hines has to say about "Writer Envy.".

As all the Wyrdsmiths will readily tell you, I'm very a very jealous/envious colleague. We've institutionalized dealing with our feelings of envy at Wyrdsmiths, as it were, by making it a rule that who ever sells (a short story or a novel) must buy everyone coffee at the next meeting. I think that helps if, for no other rea...

Smart Things and General Updatery

I'm trying to get caught up on 2 weeks of being disconnected whilst in Scotland. I need to do some blogging on that and other things but that's going to have to wait until the book is back to my editor. Did I mention that I got my revision letter the day I got home. Fortunately, while it's not quite the "I'm going to send this straight on to the copyeditor" that I go on the last two, it's only something between 1-7 hours of work total. So yay on that. Anyway, back to catching up which means c...

Unspeakably Cool

This is the independent bookstore in the small town where I live with me in front of it:



This is the store's new sign:



This is a close up of the books on the right side of the sign:



Even closer: