C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 188
April 8, 2010
Received information on memorial gifts for Azureblu
Her favorite charity was anything to do with kids' cancer charities—google that phrase will get you a selection if you would like to make a donation in her name, for which I think Azureblu is sufficient, respecting how she chose to be known here. The sentiments of these pages have been passed to her family.
Jane has just made a major leap in e-book formatting…
TOC and all. She's been working on this for 2 months, and is now beta-testing (see her post) a new e-pub version that will enable use of other fonts and a searchable table of contents (TOC).
Just received (and did: they gave us 72 whole hours!) the galleys…
…for Gwydion and the Dragon, to appear in Wings of Fire, which is about to go to press. Got to clean up some serious glitches that turned up in the Ballantine edition. Clarity, mostly. It's a story that relies on subtlety, and some older grammar forms, but missing words didn't help it at all!
April 7, 2010
Another classic sf writer to catch, if you haven't: MZB
Marion Zimmer Bradley was one of a kind. She and I met on Hugo Awards night in KC, my very first convention. I was so mundane I'd brought Sunday best and high heels for my only attire, especially since I'd heard the award banquet was going to be tux and tails. I believed it. Of course—in reality, this event is teeshirts and flipflops for most of the audience. But Robert Heinlein was GOH that year and he suggested tux and tails for the nominees…I'd gotten only part of the story. Anyway, I...
We've had a day…
First, we try to get the taxes off, which reminds us that before we can do that, there's a question of IRAs, which means—go to the bank and talk with our account guy. All fine with Jane's. Then we find out the IRA funds I wanted moved into my account didn't arrive. They'd sent us paperwork last fall to get it out of an investment firm. It hadn't arrived. Took us 5 calls and 4 departments of the investment firm to find out, yes, they'd had it, but,oh, it had been moved—in November—but it...
April 6, 2010
Put it in your personal databanks: if you have trouble with…
…a Closed Circle download, please use the troubleshooting link on the site and e-mail us immediately. This also includes freebies. THere is a quick fix for this (we send you a special link) but we cannot do it if we do not know you are having trouble.
A Closed Circle transaction immediately returns an e-mail to your e-mail addy giving you a link code—and it is fast. Usually it's waiting for you when you exit Closed Circle and go to your mailbox. So don't mess about hoping it will arrive in an ...
New app for java-using phones reads Closed Circle .prc and .mobi
This from a reader: "http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/beta/j2..., an early release of
software… will read .mobi / .prc files on a regular cell phone
that supports java, in my case, a Sony Ericsson C510."
Always glad to know—and pass on!
That's link.
They do warn it's an alpha release and could crash your device, so take precautions and back up, back up, back up. The reader who reported he is using it did not report any trouble.
April 5, 2010
Aurora alert: magnetic storm 7 on scale of 9 hits Earth
Those of you who live in the far north, heads up.
A note about the progress bar…
Right now it is in outlining phase, and it looks as if it is going slowly. But the total it is measured against is the finished book, and what I'm doing, considering this is a book in a familiar environment with familiar people, is scene-blocking, which is sort of like a movie script with hints of dialogue and who's where saying and doing what, so when it comes to actually writing it, it's a matter of filling in the detail—sort of like a pencil sketch before you start applying the finishing t...
April 4, 2010
Everybody ok down there in California?
7.2 earthquake in Guadalahara, and some pretty strong shocks around southern California and clear up to San Francisco. Hope everybody's got the china battened down. Stay safe!
