Book 2 copy edits are coming along, but this is Thanksgiving week! There’s some serious food going on this week. We are sharing Thanksgiving this year with friends. I said I will make the cranberry sauce, a green salad, and a chocolate mocha pecan pie (and maybe a regular pecan pie too, because once you start one pecan pie, it’s easy enough to just make two). We’re frying a turkey — or rather, the guys Read more…
‘Tis said that there is no apartment cleaner than that of a graduate student whose thesis is due. I think a writer whose copy edits have to be turned around in slightly over a week could give grad students a run for their money. So far I’ve cleaned the kitchen to within an inch of its life (granted, the table needed to be cleaned so I can copy edit since there’s no room at my Read more…
The Frugal Media/Space Squid “Night of Optimistic SF” was a hit and I hope they do more. Readers included Matthew Bey, Fred Stanton, who read from his hilarious story “The Secret History of X” which combines the Lovecraftian Mythos with the eldritch horror that is Olivia Newton-John, as it only should be. Unfortunately, I walked in on the very last sentence of his tale. Fortunately, I’ve heard him read it before and if you ever Read more…