C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 169

How many of these writers do you have on your shelves?

We're talking about books disappearing: books originally printed only in paperback—and books that are no longer in issue. I'm going to be listing, among others, people I knew personally, and series I'd expect an sf fan to have read, or looked at, or have some familiarity with.
Let's start with:
Clifford "Cliff" Simak: City.
Gordon R "Gordie" Dickson. The Dorsai stories.
Hal Clement. Mission of Gravity
Lin Carter. Sword and sorcery…from the Old School.
Poul Anderson: many, many, from SF to...

Closed Circle now has a Facebook site.

Update on the Facebook site: the Three Of Us of Closed Circle would be very grateful if all of you who do have Facebook accounts would make a brief sortie up to Facebook, do a search for Closed Circle (you'll know the logo)—which is at the moment waaaay down the list of things that come up under that name and quickly "like" it. A mass of you could do a lot for our prominence in the Facebook engine, and a lot of "likes" and even some suggestions to friends could help us out. If you want to...

I wonder if you all would do us a favor…

One of the best ways to get readers informed about Closed Circle is forums of all sorts. I know that many restrict the sigs you can use. But if you happen to be a member of forums that don't bar it, and especially in those that are appropriate or sf-fantasy oriented, if you could fly the Closed Circle banner where you can even for a week or so, we would be very grateful. Here's the addy you can swipe and add temporarily to your sig, if you would be so kind. We're at the point where we're...

Release schedule [sort of] for two Closed Circle items…

Jane is working toward the Halloween release of her vampire book—which is NOT Twilight, in any way, shape, or form. You know Jane. This is HER take on the mythos.

I'm doing my own spooky release: Rusalka's nearly ready. I've got the text in shape and I'm now working on Chernevog in my [insert laugh:] evening breaktime, as Jane's been working on a painted version of the Rusalka sketch I did in her [also insert laugh:] evening breaktime. In between working on our regular stuff.

Meanwhile we just h...

Ah, 52-card-pickup in office software…or…I hate Word, but I have to use it…

It seems that the interface between Volkwriter, my old software, and Word Perfect, is not so great if you have the # symbol in the text—it erases paragraphs, in WP. And guess what I'd used in VW for a spacer. FORTUNATELY, MS Word turns out not to do that. So I'm going to have to go through with both processors open and carefully transfer bits of the file as MS Word sees it into WP, which may be a bit of an argument between the two. I just love having to do this. But Word is the world's...

Today is Lynn's birthday!

her site is

All right, another favorite books question: what books waked your sense of the natural world?

I'm of the pre-tv generation—and I think that makes a difference. Some of my most favorite were Richard Halliburton's travel books: he claimed to have been in various forbidden places, including a night-time dip in the Taj Mahal's reflecting pool. And he did have photos. [Not of the skinny-dipping event.:] He vanished in the China Sea in a storm, on a Chinese junk. Which is a way for a writer to make an exit. I also read Edgar Rice Burroughs, both the Tarzan and eventually [as a teen:] the...

I'm a great fan of Hell's Kitchen and cooking shows…

but…

I believe my cat is due a share…precisely of those parts of a meat that I really don't think are All That. The Top Chef finale involved somebody who got kudos for…stand by…duck neck? Gimme a break. That belongs to the cat.

I believe pets have a deep, deep place in human society; and part of the bargain is—they get things they like; and we get things we like and offer them things we don't like.

Occasionally our communication fails. I once, living with my parents, had a kitteh greet the...

Sheesh, just had a low airliner go over…

…we live on the approach route for GEG, and we're used to some occasional overcast-weather low approaches, but this one sounded like it nearly took the roof off, and then was followed by another uncharacteristically loud low pass. We are the highest point on the approach, but they usually don't descend below 10,000 feet until they're beyond our ridge. We heard the first plane go on and on, still low, and think they made GEG ok, but wow, that was an adrenaline moment. It's raining, but not...

I've spent all day at the keyboard…

And I'm tired. I did make one dive out to the bank and another to the hardware to get a couple of bags of sand for the front.

I can report that I made progress today. Note the graph. But I am sooooo brain-tired.

Time to settle down and watch some Bleach tonight.