1) A dating service for people who like white hats with anchors.
2) A hotel that’s free to stay at… but it’s decorated with beach trash.
3) You should date an illiterate girl.
4) From boiling water to instant fog. Video. Now that’s cold.
5) Casting the 1940’s version of Harry Potter films. Too many of the biggest stars of the day, but fun to think about.
6) Phelps family protests the movie RED STATE. A counter-protest breaks out. Some NSFW text.
Again.
In 2009 at the beginning of December, I received an invitation to Norwescon. For whatever reason, my response to them wasn’t received and it’s very likely that was my fault. I interpreted the lack of response as a “Never mind,” and by the time it was straightened out I had family plans and couldn’t attend. Next year, I told myself.
Well, next year is here. I sent an email to the same person (at the same address) who contacted me before, inquiring about attending the convention, but so far I’ve received no response (again). It wasn’t one of these official contact addresses, though; it’s someone’s personal email address.
I plan to try one more time, but I’m not sure which of these addresses I should use. To be clear, I’ve attended the San Diego Comic-Con but I’ve never been to a “real” science fiction convention, and everything I know about how they work has come from skimming other people’s LiveJournals. So I’m turning to you good folks, because I know many people reading this have much more experience than I do: Which address, if any, should I contact? Or should I just take the hint?
Thanks.
Added later: Email sent! Thank you, everyone on my blog and LJ for the advice.
I haven’t mentioned this before (I was going to wait for the cover art, but like Inigo Montoya, I hate waiting) but how excited am I that Circle of Enemies (Amazon.com | B&N | Book Depository | Indiebound | Mysterious Galaxy) is going to have a blurb from Charles Stross? Pretty freaking excited, let me tell you.
But I’ve discovered that his quote might actually be moved to the back cover because the front will sport a blurb from Charlaine Harris. (!!!)
That’s a helluva one-two punch, coming from different directions. Go, little book, go! (No, seriously, go! Daddy needs sales!)
Day 332- Was struck by an arrow again last night. The cursed skeletons come out of the sea after sunset every day now, more and more of them it seems. Where they come from I do not know, but I have found evidence that make my previous ideas seem like a child’s daydream.
While exploring a nearby island, I discovered a cavern at the shoreline. Upon descending, carefully, out of the daylight, I came upon a strange cage set into the beach sand. Within burned a fire without fuel and a small, spinning spider-totem. I loitered past sunset to confirm my suspicions and yes, spiders appeared fully-formed in the vicinity of the cage as though they had been transported from some other dimension.
Are spiders the only creatures summoned thus? Perhaps the zombies and skeletons are not, as I suspected, created from the corpses of my previous “deaths” and also the deaths of others who might have lived here previously. Perhaps they are summoned here by other cages, and perhaps, most horrible of all, there is a cage buried in the sand where I am continually reborn. Perhaps if I dig a certain distance, I will discover an unquenchable fire and a tiny, spinning figure of myself.
In a sudden, blind rage, I nearly smashed the spider’s cage, but fear stayed my hand. Continue reading
While I work on the notes for book 4, my son has roped a handful of neighborhood kids to do voice over to his latest Lego animation. They’ve already had to rewrite because one of the “artists” didn’t know (and couldn’t say) the word “apocalypse” as in “zombie apocalypse.”
It’s hard to focus, what with all the cute.
Apparently Child of Fire is available in the Google ebook store. They even have sample pages from the beginning of the book. If you look at it as “scanned pages” (iow, laid out the way the printed book is) you can read up to page 37. If you set the sample to “flowing text” you can read a little farther, and can change the font, font sizes, and line spacing too. It’s pretty nice. I haven’t had the opportunity to read a book on an ereader; is this what it looks like, usually?
Interestingly, Game of Cages isn’t available for sale there. I’m not sure why. Maybe it just takes time to load the books in.
Hey out there. If you’re the Steve who sent an UPS package to me, please be aware that UPS has returned it to you for no good reason and without notifying me first. Please contact me before trying again.
I have no idea why UPS is pretending my address is no good, since it’s the same address they’ve delivered to many times. I have no idea why they’re sending me a postcard notifying me of the problem that doesn’t arrive until after the return date. I assume it’s because they put a new guy on the route.
The previous guy knew me by name. He’d wave when his truck passed me at the bus stop and I was happy to give him a copy of CoF. I want the previous delivery guy back.
My knee has improved to the point that I can sleep through the night with only occasional twinges of pain-that-wakes-me-up. As a result, I’m sleeping like a narcoleptic, crashing at odd hours and inconvenient times.
And, I hate to say, the muscles of my injured left leg look atrophied, even though it’s only been a week and a half. I know it comes quickly, but it always surprises me. Time to start up the rehab exercises–as long as the pain stays bearable. And maybe some walking tomorrow.
Sorry that the blog has become so much about my leg pain. I usually try not to write about it very much, but it’s been a big deal in my life lately and has taken over everything, including my blog.
1) A Wrinkle in Time in 90 seconds. Video. So. Effing. Cute.
2) MEOW. Video. Zombies uber alles, yeah?
3) A jury of your peers, not a jury of your purrs. I deeply regret writing that previous sentence.
4) Before and after photos of the flooding in Australia. Mouse over the pics to change them.
5) Why I don’t pay much attention to reader reviews.
6) “Impossible” physics w/out special effects. Video. Trompe l’oeil made awesome.
7) Edgar Allen Pooh.
