C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 193

Announcing a blessed event.

I committed computer.
Dell has a 300.00 off sale going on, and that brought this one into affordability, a Latitude E5550, which is, I hope, in the 'reliable workhorse' category. My own system is wheezing under the load, and its second extension of warranty is running out next month, after having provided me 2-3 keyboards and a new screen. This Latitude D810 has served me since late 2003 or early 2004, and will go on serving as a travel machine—I can do routine operations like keyboard...

Jane is ex-haust-ed…

Up at 2 am and not calling me: seems she found out it was the Condor deadline for getting an ad in the program book, and she sat up half the night putting a new format together, since what we could afford was a half page, and our regular flier isn't formatted for that size.

This morning she thought she'd lost the file. And was so darned tired she couldn't find it readily.

I'm laying the law down: she is not to do one more favor for one more person until she gets a chance to get her own files...

Back on the ice and OSG is tossed out in the cold…

7:15 am, and we're up and writing when the phone rings, and lo! OSG has been ousted from the building where she works due to 'smoke in the premises.'

She asked if she could come sleep on the couch. Yep. She drove over (rather than drive back to her own town, another 20 miles) and collapsed on the couch with coverlet and pillow. Her office, meanwhile, had made the local news: turned out to be no more than a couple of batteries in the, yes, security and fire detection system that had burned up. ...

Martian Deserts and Venus as a Swamp…

Just because 221B Baker Street is fictional and Middle Earth is not on a tourist guide doesn't make them declasse for adults; and just because Venus isn't a swamp doesn't mean sf set in such an imaginary locale doesn't make a heckuva fun story.  I'm going to be running an sf selection from Project Gutenberg now and again, and my first one is a fun story for very young readers; or for older ones who want a trip down memory lane. Today's featured author is Carey Rockwell, a pseudonym that has n...

We finally got the last of the Christmas decorations boxed

and into the garage.

Back on the ice three days running and beginning to get steadier. I think I'm suffering a bit from cedar fever, since my ears are iffy, and so is my balance, but though my brain feared I couldn't do a 3-turn without tipping over, the feet did fine.

The post in Bookview Cafe is up.

Go to their menu, on the left of the initial page, and look in the Blog Posts item.

Spent the last 2 days in doctor's offices and clinics: and lost my glasses again…

Time for checkups, which we postponed last year. Jane laid the law down, so we went. I lucked out. Instead of waiting a week or so, I get, "Can you come in this morning? We had a cancellation." And then for a clinic item, "In two hours, just catch lunch and scoot over there. " So that was fairly painless. At the blood test lab I had my glasses. When I got home, after stopping to get gas, I didn't. I toughed it out with storeboughts for 24 hours and finally located them, between the car door a...

And now Jane has a post with a take on the e-book marketing and Macmillan situation.

This would be a good time to make the round of our three blogs and see what's going on.

I've got a guest blog post going up soon on Bookview Cafe.

My take on the biz, and a brief history of how publishing's changed. I'll let you know when it actually goes up, as soon as I know it.

Lynn's got a blog post up re the Kindle controversy

Worth a read. Definitely worth a read.