Martha Wells's Blog, page 210

So we have a new garage door opener. The good thing is t...

So we have a new garage door opener. The good thing is that it is much quieter and will last longer than the old garage door opener. The bad thing is that the old one had to be replaced.

I didn't get much done this weekend; the cold front that came through so fast on Saturday did not do great things for my sinuses. At least we didn't get snow, the way Oklahoma and the DFW area did.

I'm not usually big on bestsellers, but I've been reading the The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon...

After a week of spring and temps in the upper 60s, today ...

After a week of spring and temps in the upper 60s, today started off early with a thunderstorm and now it's cold and rainy again. And the garage door, which has been failing since last year and which we can't afford to replace, decided to die today.

We can't afford it but we're replacing it anyway. At least it's going to be cheaper than the dead hot water heater. The good garage door company which fixed it last time (and explained how it had been incorrectly installed by Sears, which was ...

laurajunderwood said: I was fascinated by the results of...

laurajunderwood said: I was fascinated by the results of the survey because they were not far off from everything I suspected or knew about the profession. I participated, of course. I was the rare instance of the author who got asked for a book because the editor had read my short fiction and my small press book, and wanted to know when I was going to let them have a book of mine.

I thought so too. I was one of the outliers who had sold the first book I'd written, but I'd been writing and t...

Writing Questions

I realized it's been a while since I've done writing questions: If anyone has a question about writing and/or publishing in general, in particular, or about my writing, comment with it here and I'll answer it in a later post, if I know what the answer is.


And jimhines posts Novel Survey Results, Post II busting the myths of "The Overnight Success" and "You Have to Know Somebody"

Augh, trying to get started this morning is not easy. Ar...

Augh, trying to get started this morning is not easy.


Article at the SFWA site: Can You Define African Science Fiction? by Nnedi Okorafor

From arcaedia : Happy Release Day Bound in Blood by P.C. Hodgell is out, the new novel in the Jamethiel of the Kencyr series! The series is on B&N here.

One last word on the One Hundred Years Hence Exhibit: at ...

One last word on the One Hundred Years Hence Exhibit: at a party this weekend, someone asked one of my friends how the exhibit was, and he said, "Glorious." I realized that summed up my feelings about it, too. For the people who have promoting SF/F on campus for years, some since they were college kids, and who faced all the usual crap about it that SF/F fans, academics, and writers usually get, this was a glorious validation.

My post-ice-holocaust yard: I pulled up the rest of the dead pla...

One Hundred Years Hence, the other photos

The exhibit is on the second floor of the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, and it should be up for about six months. It's basically an overview of their SF/F collection.

I got there at a little before the opening at 3:00, and it was already starting to fill up. There were a large number of students there, especially considering it was the Friday before Spring Break. There was a booksigning table in the reading room for James Gunn and Elizabeth Moon, and a local bookstore had supplies ...

Me at the One Hundred Years Hence Exhibit

I'm going to do a bigger post on the Hundred Years Hence exhibit once I get all the photos uploaded, but I had to go ahead and post this:



This was a huge, wonderful surprise. My book The Ships of Air was in the case highlighting Texas SF/F writers, with the first page of the manuscript.

Seeing one of your books published for the first time and holding it in your hands is a big emotional thing. But I didn't realize seeing one of your books in a case in a museum exhibit would be a big deal to...

The dinner last night with James Gunn was awesome. One c...

The dinner last night with James Gunn was awesome. One cool thing: in 1936, when he was 13, he saw H.G. Wells speak, as part of Wells' tour of the US. And I'm really looking forward to the exhibit opening this afternoon.

The weather has been really good for the past couple of days, just in time for spring break. So far this week I have cleaned out and partially dredged my pond, cleaned out my fountain, and finished raking the leaves. Though the yard still looks horrible, like it's part of ...

My lousy day suddenly got a lot better: I got invited to...

My lousy day suddenly got a lot better: I got invited to go out to dinner tonight with Hal Hall, some other librarians, and James Gunn, who's here for the opening of the One Hundred Years Hence exhibit.

I'm also going to the opening of exhibit tomorrow at 3:00, and the people who have seen the catalog already say it's fabulous. James Gunn and Elizabeth Moon are going to be the speakers for the opening ceremony.