C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 181
June 26, 2010
spring flower pix are up on Jane's site…
That little camera of hers did good!
Plus the infamous keelhauling of Pegleg Sam...
Notice the graph fall back?
That's outline being erased, for a completed section. Gain a little, lose a little.
June 25, 2010
What it takes to prep an e-book…
Just an explanation why it takes us so very long to get things out…
First: the book has to be re-read to make sure the in-print copyeditors didn't do anything creative, and that it is the best we can do.
Second: the book has to be gone over line by line looking for typos, right down to spacing on periods and dots. We follow regular publishing guidelines, in general.
Third: the book has to have a cover of some sort. This takes time, because we love cover artwork.
Fourth: the book has to be...
June 24, 2010
My account of the Canoe Trip…
…is now on Captain & Lime.
June 22, 2010
kindle, nook, etc price war…
If you've been looking at one of these beasties, take note. The price has fallen.
June 19, 2010
We have now made the annual canoe trip safely!
…and dry, this time, both Jane and myself. Several of our friends tackled really big fears of water and an oversetting, but no one drowned, no one was hurt, and the only casualty was a pair of glasses (not mine or Jane's). OSGuy, who was stern paddle in my canoe, did a lot of instructing, and I found out a number of things that Jane and I (having missed the instruction even about how to hold a paddle) did bass-akcward when we had our overset-adventure with a strainer (fallen tree with...
June 17, 2010
let's talk about this wiki thing…
It boils down to "really good idea"—but I haven't the time or the braincells to spare to run the thing. I'd have to learn php, apparently, for which I have zip aptitude: it took me a while to learn basic html, and that's in English. I look at the sites that explain php, and it's a massive amount of reading from which I'm supposed to grasp what the heck planet they're on, when I've got a completely different planet on which Bren has problems I'm tracking with just about all the brain cells...
June 14, 2010
I have a brilliant idea…let's create a notebook…
…for certain series, like Foreigner. It's a shame to let the stuff scroll off into oblivion. If I use my amazing admin powers to snatch up comments, edit them for brevity and organize them into an ongoing Foreigner Guidebook, then it become a resource that can live here permanently. There probably should be one for Alliance-Union also.
So, again using my amazing admin powers, I am going to create it, and move some data into it. I will also have a list of contributors at the top—it will be...
June 13, 2010
Stephen Goldin doing an interview: data follows
FROM STEPHEN GOLDIN: My wife (Mary Mason) and I are being interviewed Tuesday, June 15 on an Internet broadcast beginning at 5 pm Mountain Time by DJ/interviewer Mason Ramsey, who's a BIG fan of my book The Eternity Brigade. The topics will be science fiction and rock'n'roll/blues. If you miss any part of the interview, it's being repeated immediately after its first airing. I hope you'll listen in and enjoy!
Date: Tuesday, June 15
Time: 5 pm Mountain Time
Where: http://rockandrollheaven.net
June 12, 2010
A tail of two fishes…
We had told ourselves that we were going to get two of the 'higher-bred' fishes from our new pond supply place—we'd gotten our first koi, expecting that we'd lose some to infant mortality, by buying a random batch from a feed store—and only lost one; the others are quite a mixed bag of really nice and, well, then there's Kenpachi, who's kind of untidy. So we were anxious for what wonderful fish might turn up when the pond place opened up to sell the fish it's had in quarantine, koi with...
