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WFC Schedule
It’s that time again. Halloween is coming up, and World Fantasy is upon us! I’ll be out in Toronto next weekend, if anyone wants to stop by, I have a panel! Friday 1:00 p.m. GOTHIC FANTASY NOIR In the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) Mike Ashley writes: “The cityscape has replaced the old castle, and Urban…
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Birthday Art
It’s a little past my birthday, but I wanted to show off some lovely art my friend made for me! She also has lots of other cool stuff at her website.
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Lighting
Me: Your bathroom lightbulbs are set to “undead” Dad: What? Me: They make you look all pale and slightly blue. Unless I’m actually slightly pale and blue. Dad: You kind of are. Me: What? No, it’s the fluorescent bulbs! They mess with skin tones! Dad: Those are some of the only incandescents we have left…
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Rocks
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… The saddest rock in the world. Clearly, it needs to make friends with the toast rock: (New readers: the toast rock lives in the lab cabinets at work)
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Overlarge Vocabularies of Writers
Worldcon Dinner Conversation Me: I wonder if they’ll think I’m a pleb if I ask for ketchup with this. Tablemate: I think if you can use the word pleb, you’re not a pleb.
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The Next Big Thing Week 10
I’ve been tagged by Esther and Frog Jones in a fun little game going around at the moment: The Next Big Thing. The Next Big Thing is a weekly blog post where tagged authors talk about one of their works in progress. What is the working title of your book? Cubs. It’s book 3 in…
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Worldcon
Another week, another con. 😉 This time, one more likely that some of you will be attending! I’ll be in Chicago for World on August 31st to September 2. Come on down and say hello! My schedule: Sat Sep 1 9:00:am – 10:30:am Writing Groups: Good, Bad, or Indifferent Some writers crave the company of…
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Dumb job humor
So I have these conversations with myself at work sometimes. Me: Hehehe, that’s hilarious! Me: No one but someone who’s been staring at sketch maps of old mining features for four hours would think that’s funny. Me: I don’t care. It’s still funny. The one for today is from a photo log. Photo logs are…
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Unhelpful appliances
My parents’ shower is extremely obliging, but rather clueless. I’m staying over at the parental house to attend a wedding this evening, and since it’s somewhat hot this afternoon, when getting ready I tried to introduce their shower to the concept of “cool”. It was a not very successful lesson. First I turned the knob…
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When Words Collide
I’ve got another convention coming up! It’s a new one for me, out in Calgary. I look forward to visiting there for the first time! My schedule, should anyone reading this stop by: Saturday 10 AM Reading from Silver Saturday 11 AM Conflict & Tension Saturday 1 PM Genre vs Setting Saturday 2 PM Urban…
Got any book recommendations?