One day I should scan in the rough map I’ve drawn of Aeritan. I drew it in 2005 when I was seriously deep into actual revisions of Gordath Wood, and was having trouble keeping things straight. Up in the northwest corner of the map, there’s Balancing Rock and North Salem, NY. There’s the house that exists on (the fictional) Daw Road in North Salem and simultaneously in Gordath Wood on the border of Red Gold Read more…
Louise Marley has a trenchant post on the copy editor’s craft on Red Room, the writing site she blogs for, and let me add hear hear! to her words. Copy editors are often unsung heroes in the publishing world. And I say this not only because I’ve been a copy editor, but because the one who was assigned to Gordath Wood saved me from myself quite often. Sure, there was that nasty continuity error in Read more…
Although this probably interests me way more than you, it’s curious because I can’t remember the last time I caught a cold. I’ve gotten allergies, sure, because this is Austin, Texas, and if you don’t have allergies you will get allergies. Thank God for Claritin D, is all I’ve got to say. This is a real cold though, for which I’m grateful. One gets over a cold. And every time I get a cold, I Read more…