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January 20, 2013
Giveaway Results
We sometimes do things the old-fashioned way here at skinnier than it is wide. No randomizer programs, not even coin-flipping. For the Substitution Cipher giveaway, commenters’ names went into a 49ers baseball cap and R picked the winner. And that winner is… Jennifer Krouse Check your email soon for your digital copy of Substitution Cipher [...]
Weekend Linkroll
Another Sunday has rolled around. The last not-frigid day for a while. We’ll be reaching highs of 5 degrees by Wednesday up here. Yes, climate change is to blame. Joy. So, while I can still feel my fingers, I have links to share. Food and Wine Thursdays: Wine Aromas I’ve mentioned my dislike of gatekeepers, [...]
I’m noticing a trend here
Two spam comments from the same person made my morning today. They’re identical, and yet they’re not. I received this one first: In your adolescence, did you at all fuck to each with people in a marked livelihood– because, you were genuine bored and were a crumb of a perspicacious ass? Unswerving , we all [...]
January 17, 2013
Well, That Turned Out Well…
The Preditors & Editors Poll results came out today. A lot of Candlemark & Gleam folks did quite well, and I was tickled to see that Substitution Cipher came in at number 11 on the list of best anthologies. Just shy of the top ten, which is quite exciting for a newb such as myself. [...]
January 14, 2013
Monday Morning Music
So, more nostalgia from me this morning: another one of my favorite bands. I first heard R.E.M.’s “Don’t Go Back To Rockville” in the early 1980s and immediately became a fan. (that link goes to a cool acoustic version I hadn’t heard or seen before–I love you, internet) They were one of my musical obsessions [...]
January 13, 2013
Weekend Linkroll
So, the Ravens won last night, in stunning fashion, which kind of made my weekend. The Winter of the Novel has taken a short break so I can work on edits for “To The Edges”: another good thing. My fickle nature reared its head yesterday; the blog got another makeover. We’ll see how long this [...]
January 9, 2013
Words in Progress
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” – Guillaume Apollinaire As I was getting my novella “To The Edges” (which actually had nothing to do with that Apollinaire quotation, but I just ran across it and it [...]
January 7, 2013
Monday Morning Music
So, back when I was a kid, I pretty much listened to the Beatles and Led Zeppelin constantly. (I’m sure my parents were thrilled about this, but as long as I kept my bedroom door shut and didn’t wake up my dad [he worked night shift], they didn’t complain.) I was so much a Zeppelin [...]
January 6, 2013
Weekly Linkroll
It’s been a contemplative weekend. I’ve been working on 2082, which I want to talk about, I think, at some point. There’s another Outsider post brewing. And I redid the blog design here. Enjoying the sunshine today, too (well, I was; it’s clouded over again since I started writing this). Three out of the last [...]
December 31, 2012
So, the Sun Came Out
and lit up the ridge across the valley from my house. Those windmills just started turning last week. I’m not one of those Vermonters who thinks they’re destroying the beauty of the ridgeline, so not.in.my.backyard. I think they’re cool, and they look really neat in the snow. 2012 was a mixed bag for those of [...]
