It actually rained here last night, a heavy storm that la...
It actually rained here last night, a heavy storm that lasted about two hours or so and left two inches of rain. We're still over two feet short of rainfall for this year, but this does help. The state is getting sporadic rain in a lot of places; it's not enough to put out the wildfires, but it does make them spread much more slowly and makes them far less likely to get started from little things like sparks from cars or farm equipment.
I'm going on actual vacation for a few days next week, which is exciting. I haven't had an actual non-convention-work-related vacation since last year at this time. We're only driving three hours down to Galveston with a friend, but it'll be a lot of fun.
This would be a bad time for a hurricane.
New Story: Tomorrow morning I'm going to post a new story on my web site. It's set in the same world as The Cloud Roads but with different characters, set in a different part of the world. It'll be posted for free, but I'll have a paypal donation button on it, like I do for the other stories I have posted on the site. (And I really really appreciate the donations, believe me.) This is a story I wasn't able to sell anywhere (though not from lack of trying) so it's totally new, never seen before unless you're one of the editors who turned it down.
(For new friended people, The Forest Boy is also set in the same world as The Cloud Roads, though it takes place a long time before the book starts. And The Potter's Daughter is a sequel to The Element of Fire.)
links:
Scott Edelman: Read the story that almost caused me to quit Science Fiction Age
I edited Science Fiction Age magazine from 1992 through 2000, but what very few people know is that I almost quit before the first issue ever appeared. (Or perhaps it was during the space between the first and second issue. I can no longer be sure without doing that research I mentioned.) And the reason for my possible resignation is a short story that's just gotten published in the September/October issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a story which you're only finally getting a chance to read nearly two decades later than you should have.
LA Times: Mysterious Galaxy Books opens in Redondo Beach today
YouTube: Funky Werepig: Writer Joe Lansdale Demonstrates a Martial Art great for people writing fight scenes.
Seanan McGuire: Across the digital divide.
The existence of ebooks means that people who can't store physical books can have more to read. It means that hard-to-find and out of print material is becoming accessible again. I means that people who have arthritis, or weak wrists, or other physical disabilities that make reading physical books difficult, can read again, without worrying about physical pain. I love that ebooks exist.
This doesn't change the part where, every time a discussion of ebooks turns, seemingly inevitably, to "Print is dead, traditional publishing is dead, all smart authors should be bailing to the brave new electronic frontier," what I hear, however unintentionally, is "Poor people don't deserve to read."
I'm going on actual vacation for a few days next week, which is exciting. I haven't had an actual non-convention-work-related vacation since last year at this time. We're only driving three hours down to Galveston with a friend, but it'll be a lot of fun.
This would be a bad time for a hurricane.
New Story: Tomorrow morning I'm going to post a new story on my web site. It's set in the same world as The Cloud Roads but with different characters, set in a different part of the world. It'll be posted for free, but I'll have a paypal donation button on it, like I do for the other stories I have posted on the site. (And I really really appreciate the donations, believe me.) This is a story I wasn't able to sell anywhere (though not from lack of trying) so it's totally new, never seen before unless you're one of the editors who turned it down.
(For new friended people, The Forest Boy is also set in the same world as The Cloud Roads, though it takes place a long time before the book starts. And The Potter's Daughter is a sequel to The Element of Fire.)
links:
Scott Edelman: Read the story that almost caused me to quit Science Fiction Age
I edited Science Fiction Age magazine from 1992 through 2000, but what very few people know is that I almost quit before the first issue ever appeared. (Or perhaps it was during the space between the first and second issue. I can no longer be sure without doing that research I mentioned.) And the reason for my possible resignation is a short story that's just gotten published in the September/October issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a story which you're only finally getting a chance to read nearly two decades later than you should have.
LA Times: Mysterious Galaxy Books opens in Redondo Beach today
YouTube: Funky Werepig: Writer Joe Lansdale Demonstrates a Martial Art great for people writing fight scenes.
Seanan McGuire: Across the digital divide.
The existence of ebooks means that people who can't store physical books can have more to read. It means that hard-to-find and out of print material is becoming accessible again. I means that people who have arthritis, or weak wrists, or other physical disabilities that make reading physical books difficult, can read again, without worrying about physical pain. I love that ebooks exist.
This doesn't change the part where, every time a discussion of ebooks turns, seemingly inevitably, to "Print is dead, traditional publishing is dead, all smart authors should be bailing to the brave new electronic frontier," what I hear, however unintentionally, is "Poor people don't deserve to read."
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