Friday
Let's see.
Writing: I am working on the first of four Raksura novellas that will be published in ebook by Start Publishing (don't know the dates yet). This first one is nearly finished because I actually started it last year, before I started the Star Wars book. I finished plotting the ending yesterday so I'm hoping to finish it in the next few days. I read a section of it at ApolloCon last month and I'll probably read part of it for my reading at WorldCon (hopefully I'll get a reading at WorldCon and I didn't just jinx myself).
The Slow House Apocalypse: We had rain a few days ago so naturally the front gutter started to come off. The gutter people are supposed to come today. We've had a dead smelly hot tub in the back yard for um, several years now, and I've finally got the spare money to have it removed. The people who deal with deceased hot tubs have come a couple times to stare at it, and I'm hoping if they come today again they'll finally move it out of the yard. Then we start phase II, begging the city to come get the remains. Last winter the furnace showed signs of being on its last legs, and the air conditioner also went from middle-aged to elderly, so we're having both replaced on Monday. It's expensive, but less expensive to do them together, and also will be less expensive in monthly costs since these will be more efficient units. After all this, the only appliance left that was here when we first bought the house in the late 90s is the dishwasher. :eyes dishwasher: It's never had anything go wrong with it yet. :knock on wood: Houses/appliances are like cars, they know when you get paid.
Me: I've been kind of depressed lately and having anxiety issues, and really bad sinus headaches. Pretty much the usual.
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I have a signing coming up on Friday July 26, at 6:30 for Emilie and the Hollow World at Murder by the Book, in Houston, Texas, with Joy Preble (The Sweet Dead Life), Mary Lindsey (Ashes on the Waves), and P.J. Hoover (Solstice). The store does do mail order, so if you want a signed book, you can call and order one.
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Links:
* The Guardian: People of colour like me have been painted out of working-class history by Anna Chen
This is not an accurate portrayal of the British working class, either now or in the past. My own father, an ex-seaman, was a British trade unionist in Liverpool from the 1920s onwards, and helped found the Chinese Seamen's Union. It was necessary: Chinese people ran much of the merchant navy in the second world war, and plenty died for us in conflicts up to and including the Falklands war, and yet they suffered horrible discrimination. Their pay and conditions were inferior to those of their white counterparts. Adding insult to injury, many were forcibly sent back to China after the war despite having settled here with families.
* Black Gate: Readercon 24: "A Most Readerconnish Miscellany" by C.S.E. Cooney - a ReaderCon report with photos.
* Tumblr: Indirectly Inclined: Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman cartoonist. This is the first of a series on women in comics.
At Jackie Ormes’ height as a cartoonist, her work reached one million people per week. In the 1940s and 1950s, she reached one million people per week.
Writing: I am working on the first of four Raksura novellas that will be published in ebook by Start Publishing (don't know the dates yet). This first one is nearly finished because I actually started it last year, before I started the Star Wars book. I finished plotting the ending yesterday so I'm hoping to finish it in the next few days. I read a section of it at ApolloCon last month and I'll probably read part of it for my reading at WorldCon (hopefully I'll get a reading at WorldCon and I didn't just jinx myself).
The Slow House Apocalypse: We had rain a few days ago so naturally the front gutter started to come off. The gutter people are supposed to come today. We've had a dead smelly hot tub in the back yard for um, several years now, and I've finally got the spare money to have it removed. The people who deal with deceased hot tubs have come a couple times to stare at it, and I'm hoping if they come today again they'll finally move it out of the yard. Then we start phase II, begging the city to come get the remains. Last winter the furnace showed signs of being on its last legs, and the air conditioner also went from middle-aged to elderly, so we're having both replaced on Monday. It's expensive, but less expensive to do them together, and also will be less expensive in monthly costs since these will be more efficient units. After all this, the only appliance left that was here when we first bought the house in the late 90s is the dishwasher. :eyes dishwasher: It's never had anything go wrong with it yet. :knock on wood: Houses/appliances are like cars, they know when you get paid.
Me: I've been kind of depressed lately and having anxiety issues, and really bad sinus headaches. Pretty much the usual.
***
I have a signing coming up on Friday July 26, at 6:30 for Emilie and the Hollow World at Murder by the Book, in Houston, Texas, with Joy Preble (The Sweet Dead Life), Mary Lindsey (Ashes on the Waves), and P.J. Hoover (Solstice). The store does do mail order, so if you want a signed book, you can call and order one.
***
Links:
* The Guardian: People of colour like me have been painted out of working-class history by Anna Chen
This is not an accurate portrayal of the British working class, either now or in the past. My own father, an ex-seaman, was a British trade unionist in Liverpool from the 1920s onwards, and helped found the Chinese Seamen's Union. It was necessary: Chinese people ran much of the merchant navy in the second world war, and plenty died for us in conflicts up to and including the Falklands war, and yet they suffered horrible discrimination. Their pay and conditions were inferior to those of their white counterparts. Adding insult to injury, many were forcibly sent back to China after the war despite having settled here with families.
* Black Gate: Readercon 24: "A Most Readerconnish Miscellany" by C.S.E. Cooney - a ReaderCon report with photos.
* Tumblr: Indirectly Inclined: Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman cartoonist. This is the first of a series on women in comics.
At Jackie Ormes’ height as a cartoonist, her work reached one million people per week. In the 1940s and 1950s, she reached one million people per week.
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