Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
"Yellow Card Man" is a nominee! Thanks to everyone who nominated it. I am deeply honored.
I'll either get the story up online here, or over at Asimov's in the near future for interested people to read. If you want to be notified when it happens, you might get on ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
... is that by creating "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" he gave Anthony Lane at The New Yorker the opportunity to write a review.
I know this is an old piece, I know that Star Wars is a roadside accident fast receding in our rear view mirrors, and ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
The Logorrhea anthology is now available for pre-orders from Amazon. I've got a story in it called "Softer" which is a departure for me, because it isn't a science fiction story. The idea was to choose a winning word from the Scripps National Spelling Bee and compose ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
So, one of my other neighbors finally called the cops on crystal meth house. Everyone on the block is sick of them, but everyone's afraid of them, as well.
The fine gentleman who called the cops finally got fed up with them cranking their car stereo in the middle of ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
So the ever-energetic John Scalzi has started a new gig. Ficlets. Micro fiction that everyone can add on to. It actually looks pretty fun. The sort of communal writing experience that's missing from a writer's general daily life. Creative and community. Nifty.
But, because I'm not ever-energetic, nor even ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Through the wonders of frequent flyer miles, I'm going to be in NYC for the Nebula Awards weekend, May 10-13.
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
So, more on my neighbors. My friends and I used to joke and call them "crystal meth house" because they have all their windows hung with curtains 24/7 and they're either skinny like skeletons or hung over. And they sleep really late, even though they've got a 1-year old and ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
My son and I were walking back from the park yesterday, and a couple of our neighbor's dogs came out onto the sidewalk and started barking and growling at us. I picked up my kid and tried to carry him past, but the dogs circled us and one of them ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
John Scalzi, in a moment of obvious insanity is running a write-in campaign for SFWA President.
After reading his platform, I dusted off my ballot, wrote in his name and sent it in. He had me at "Hello."
Seriously, I think he's nailed a lot of important issues, and I like ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
From Jay Lake, decontextualized, but still wise:
"I'm tempted to say the insecurity of authors knows no bounds, but someone would take that as a challenge. It sometimes comes out of the skinny end of the tube as paranoia. There is no conspiracy in publishing, just a whole lot of people ...
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