Martha Wells's Blog, page 209

Sunday morning photos:Last night we rented The Vampire's ...

Sunday morning photos:




























Last night we rented The Vampire's Assistant, and really enjoyed it. It made me want to go find the books.

Our internet is working now, but Verizon called and said ...

Our internet is working now, but Verizon called and said their test of the line shows something wrong, so they're sending a technician out. He'll arrive sometime between 8 and 5. This is why we got rid of the cable. That's fine, Verizon, I have to go to the grocery store and the pharmacy, but I'll just sit here waiting on your convenience. Maybe this time a miracle will happen and you'll fix the thing that's caused our intermittent connection problems for well over a year.

One problem is t...

New modem arrived but it doesn't work either. Still no i...

New modem arrived but it doesn't work either. Still no internet of our own. Waiting for next thing to go wrong.

links:

A profile of SFWA Author Emeritus Neal Barrett, Jr. on Tor.com I've known Neal since college, when I was working on AggieCon, and it's great to see him get this recognition.

Jim Hines' Fundraiser for Rape Crisis Centers Support rape crisis centers and enter to win an Advance Copy of Red Hood's Revenge, by Jim C. Hines.

Stephen Hawking at A&M

I've been offline most of the time since Sunday, when our internet connection died. We've had an intermittent problem for about the past year, mostly due to the lines in this area being old and crappy. The Verizon tech came yesterday, when it took him fifteen minutes to figure out the problem was our modem, and more than an hour on the phone with Verizon Online trying to order a new modem. It hasn't arrived yet, so as of now, I still have only intermittent access on a neighbor's unsecured ...

We've had real Spring weather here lately, and I'd really...

We've had real Spring weather here lately, and I'd really love to go to the Antique Rose Emporium this weekend to walk through the gardens, but on this weekend, so does everybody else in the state. Maybe next week. Tonight we're treating ourselves to Sherlock Holmes on DVD.

And Monday, we're going to see Stephen Hawking speak on campus. This will actually be the second time we've seen him give a presentation here.


YouTube: Fred Phelps and his hate group the Westboro Babtist Church Attack...

Lulu Sale

I got an email this morning from Lulu.com that they are having a 10% off sale. Use coupon code APRILFOOLS at checkout and receive 10% off your Lulu order. Maximum savings: $25.00.

(Hopefully it's not a joke. Because that would be really stupid.)

Anyway, if you want to take advantage of it, my Lulu reprints of The Element of Fire and City of Bones are here.

You could also check out Charles Saunders' fabulous sword and sorcery fantasies here. He has Dossouye and two new Imaro books available.

A...

Congrats to stinabat, who just sold her first novel to Ni...

Congrats to stinabat , who just sold her first novel to Night Shade!

Last week, I watched a documentary called Eleven Minutes, about Jay McCarroll, the first winner of Project Runway, putting on his first fashion collection. The title comes from working for seven months to do something that basically lasts eleven minutes. It's funny and a little sad, and a good example of working in a creative field that is also an extremely brutal and cutthroat business. He had to refuse the $100,000 prize ...

A few quick links:jimhines complete post of First Novel S...

A few quick links:

jimhines complete post of First Novel Survey Results In February of 2010, I began collecting information from professionally published novelists. My goal was to learn how writers broke in and made that first big novel deal, and to use actual data to confirm or bust some of the myths about making it as a novelist.

and the Library-Loving Challenge: Totals Report, Part 1 I was kind of surprised how few people commented to some blogs, where all it took was a comment to boost t...

I forget who posted this on Faceplace: Child vampire hun...

I forget who posted this on Faceplace: Child vampire hunters sparked comic crackdown But the bizarre sight that awaited him was to make headlines around the world and cause a moral panic that led to the introduction of strict new censorship laws in the UK.

Hundreds of children aged from four to 14, some of them armed with knives and sharpened sticks, were patrolling inside the historic graveyard.

They were, they told the bemused constable, hunting a 7ft tall vampire with iron teeth who had...

Library Challenge

anghara is part of The library-loving blog challenge! For every comment on her post, she'll donate to a local library.

writerjenn is also doing the challenge and her post is here, with a list of the other blogs that are participating.