Harry Connolly's Blog, page 192
May 1, 2010
And now I abandon my child to share some news with you
My German foreign language agent has just sold worldwide German rights to Otherworld Verlag Krug Keg. They're an ambitious small(ish) press out of Austria, and it's incredibly exciting.
That makes Russian, French, and German sales. So far.
April 30, 2010
Online much?
Not really. Pizza Week has been a single-parent experience, and I don't have a lot of time to hang out online. I'm trying to keep up with my email and LJ friends list, but even that's a struggle.
Anyway, I spoke with my agent about Project Number Next last Monday. The story idea came from this discussion, and although at first I wasn't sure I wanted to tackle something like that, eventually the idea started taking over my brain. I had a character I wanted to write about. I had a take...
Randomness for 4/30
1) The seven species of robots. TED Talk via Ezra Klein
2) Williams Syndrome: the disease of trust. Audio report and transcript.
3) 25 Beautiful photos of spiral staircases.
4) Do not try to bring your gay dog to this restaurant!.
5) Twetiquette vigilantes! aka People With A Brain Disorder.
6) Mass market supercar competition begins.
7) And, to round things off: Cute dancing robots
April 28, 2010
What's the proper way to dress a pizza?
Sauce first, then cheese, then toppings on the very top? Sauce, toppings, cheese? Put on the sauce last, so the cheese doesn't brown so much? Or does it vary according to the cheeses, sauce and toppings you choose?
April 27, 2010
First full day
The first full day of Pizza Week (aka, my wife is out of town) was troubled. The fruit pizza (with sweetened cream cheese) did not go over well. At all. The more traditional pepperoni pizza I made for dinner (with the good pepp) also did not go over well. My son got me to make him a mini-pizza at the end of the day and I put all his usual boring toppings on them.
As for the rest of the day, I'm a single parent so I'm not getting online all that much. I did have a productive...
April 26, 2010
Weird day
Not ten seconds ago, heavy winds out of the south have started shaking the trees on my block. It's like a dance party out there.
A few hours ago, my back went out for no reason I can see. I'm hobbling around the apartment, trying to straighten up the place and straighten up my posture, using ice, isometrics, dishwasher, stretching, but not the vacuum. Ow. Also, ow.
My wife flies to the east coast tonight. I need to load up her iPod with TED talks before she goes In fact, I'm going...
April 25, 2010
You guys look at http://epicwinftw.com/ right?
Because this is awesome.
Something I didn't know
I dropped in at my neighborhood bookstore yesterday, where they had just placed their orders for September books from Random House. Even though I didn't buy anything (they didn't have the cars issue of Consumer Reports) they were nice enough to let me take the catalog with me.
Not only was I able to see how many copies of Game of Cages they'd ordered (answer: 10), but I had a chance to look at the way RH designs their mailed catalogs. It was mostly just what you'd expect, except for one...
April 24, 2010
I solved the last scene of Man Bites World yesterday
Revised it, cleaned up the manuscript this morning, and just now emailed it to my editor.
Phew!
Now I whip up a list of reviewers who need ARCs and try to come up with a selling title for it.
