Found out I'm going to be very, very busy for the rest of...

Found out I'm going to be very, very busy for the rest of the year, but that's a very, very good thing.

Also working on an anthology short story that was supposed to be turned in yesterday, but the editor was super nice and gave me an extension. I really like how it's turning out so I hope she does too. I'm hoping to be done with it by the weekend.

links:

YouTube: An Octavia Butler profile "As a child, she said she wanted to be a writer, and they said, you can't be a writer. Black women aren't writers."

John Scalzi: Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be

BBC America: Another part of the Olympics opening ceremony that wasn't shown in the US: the opening bit with Benedict Cumberbatch

World SF Blog: The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction now on the Kindle!
Mad scientists! Desperate housewives! Murderous robots! Scandalous starlets! Sordid, drug-fueled love affairs! This anthology features seventeen stories by ten best-selling authors of Tamil crime, romance, science fiction, and detective stories, none of them ever before translated into English, along with reproductions of wacky cover art and question-and-answer sessions with some of the authors. Grab a masala vadai, sit back and enjoy!