The replacements for the leaky bedroom windows were all f...
The replacements for the leaky bedroom windows were all finished late on Thursday, though it was a bigger job than the contractor originally thought. (It's easier to do it on a brick or wood house than it is on a house with old vinyl siding that nobody in town sells anymore.) But they are done and it is such a relief!
It's going to be very nice this winter to work without a cold breeze blowing on the back of my head. I wish I could afford to have the last three windows done; it would probably really help our utility bills.
I'm finally going to get new glasses next week. I can't afford them either, but a massage person at Sherwood Forest Faire told me my back looked like I had scoliosis, and that it's probably from a year and a half sitting with my neck hunched forward to see the laptop.
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SF Reviews: Midnight... Racist? A Post on Del Rey's Changes to the Cover of Midnight Riot, with cover examples.
Ben Aaronovitch's debut urban fantasy Rivers of London, retitled Midnight Riot by Del Rey for its US release, has a mixed-race protagonist, with a white father and African mother. In recent years, there have been a number of embarrassing examples of major publishers in the US overtly placing white characters on the covers of books with non-white heroes, a relic of an attitude, perhaps, that black people don't care to read. It's asinine, and in some high profile cases, publishers have been duly shamed into correcting or rejacketing covers following a public outcry.
The only thing that will stop things like this is if people email or write to the publisher Del Rey and complain. The writer has no control over the cover, and complaining to him is preaching to the choir.
Other links for Sunday:
Don't miss the giveaway drawing I'm doing for the wonderful fantasy novel Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente. You still have until Tuesday morning to enter! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post.
The Genre for Japan auction ends today! The entry for The Cloud Roads is here.
Writer Beware: Karma's a Bitch: Robin Price, David William Caswell
Robin Price, a fake literary agent and film producer accused of bilking writers out of more than £500,000 over a number of years, admitted in a UK court on Wednesday to six counts of theft. He was sentenced to six years in prison.
Alchemy by Carla Hall Carla from Top Chef's web site. She sells cookies!
Book View Cafe: Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement by Ursula Le Guin
Discussion: I don't understand why Google did what they did. If they'd just done it right – followed their own motto "Don't be evil!"
SF Site: SF Site Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2010 Editors' Choice and Readers' Choice
It's going to be very nice this winter to work without a cold breeze blowing on the back of my head. I wish I could afford to have the last three windows done; it would probably really help our utility bills.
I'm finally going to get new glasses next week. I can't afford them either, but a massage person at Sherwood Forest Faire told me my back looked like I had scoliosis, and that it's probably from a year and a half sitting with my neck hunched forward to see the laptop.
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SF Reviews: Midnight... Racist? A Post on Del Rey's Changes to the Cover of Midnight Riot, with cover examples.
Ben Aaronovitch's debut urban fantasy Rivers of London, retitled Midnight Riot by Del Rey for its US release, has a mixed-race protagonist, with a white father and African mother. In recent years, there have been a number of embarrassing examples of major publishers in the US overtly placing white characters on the covers of books with non-white heroes, a relic of an attitude, perhaps, that black people don't care to read. It's asinine, and in some high profile cases, publishers have been duly shamed into correcting or rejacketing covers following a public outcry.
The only thing that will stop things like this is if people email or write to the publisher Del Rey and complain. The writer has no control over the cover, and complaining to him is preaching to the choir.
Other links for Sunday:
Don't miss the giveaway drawing I'm doing for the wonderful fantasy novel Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente. You still have until Tuesday morning to enter! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post.
The Genre for Japan auction ends today! The entry for The Cloud Roads is here.
Writer Beware: Karma's a Bitch: Robin Price, David William Caswell
Robin Price, a fake literary agent and film producer accused of bilking writers out of more than £500,000 over a number of years, admitted in a UK court on Wednesday to six counts of theft. He was sentenced to six years in prison.
Alchemy by Carla Hall Carla from Top Chef's web site. She sells cookies!
Book View Cafe: Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement by Ursula Le Guin
Discussion: I don't understand why Google did what they did. If they'd just done it right – followed their own motto "Don't be evil!"
SF Site: SF Site Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2010 Editors' Choice and Readers' Choice
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