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Buying yet another bookstore’s worth of books or so
Because apparently a lot of the news in my life just involves buying a boatload of books, it’s time again for What’s New on Anna’s To Read Shelves! Picked up in ebook form to feed my hungry, hungry Nook (and eventually, I swear, I’ll get around to reading all these too): Bellwether, by Connie Willis.…
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This is what I am TALKING ABOUT
1,209 words tonight. Chapter 7 of Bone Walker is complete, and tonight without even the benefit of the Word Wars chat room. Apparently, “letting a pissed off nogitsune chomp on Christopher” ranks up there with “participating in the Word Wars” as a means to get me writing! Muahaha. This means Bone Walker has now passed…
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Well now, this was productive
My friend Catie, along with several other writers of her acquaintance, runs a lovely, lovely thing: a chat room where they simply hang out with each other and do what they call “word wars”. The idea is that all participants, rather than actually chatting with each other, do half-hour chunks in which they write like…
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All hail SOLARBIRD!
Many of you have remarked upon this already in your own posts, but for those of you who might not have yet, hey, it’s the Day of ! Who is a very awesome Solarbird indeed. Did I mention she’d written me a SONG? With its very own bass solo? Happy birthday, beloved! <3 <3 Today…
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Wow, there sure are a lot of books here
It occurred to me this week that I have six, count ’em, six books in progress in various stages, and as part of the Great Get My Ass Back in Gear Initiative, it might behoove me to do a quick rundown of where all of these books are and what needs to get done with…
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Book and TV catchup
Let’s clear out the backlog of new ebook and print book purchases, shall we? Picked up in print from the Norwescon dealers’ room: The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, and The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks. The former is a graphic novel adaptation of a section of the latter. I’d already listened to an…
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On being a consumer vs. being a creator
So yeah, the iPad has dropped, and it’s caused the obligatory storm of reaction all over the Net. Cory Doctorow in particular, I noted, had a very passionate post up on boingboing about why he’s not going to buy an iPad and why he thinks the rest of us shouldn’t either. Now, most of his…
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Book Log #20: The Art of Detection, by Laurie R. King
The latest of the Kate Martinelli series turned out to be a strong contender for favorite in the series, up against To Play the Fool, Book 2. I was highly interested in this one in no small part because it was billed as having a tie-in with Ms. King’s other renowned series, the Mary Russells–and…
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Drollerie Blog Tour: Faerie Blood Foolery
This month’s Drollerie Press Blog Tour theme is Foolery: April Fool’s Day, playing jokes, pranks or mishaps or mischief that occur in your writing, and anything else our participants could think to come up with. My contribution for the tour is a new character snippet upholding the theme: what happens when Jude Lawrence meets her…
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Drollerie Blog Tour for April 2010: Foolery!
Hi there all and welcome to another edition of the Drollerie Press Blog Tour! If you’ve had half an eye on the Internet at all today you’ve probably seen a lot of clever things going around (in no small part what the fine folks at xkcd did to their site, as well as the many…
