Hild and more
Two pieces of good news: one, people keep sending me cheques for reprints of things. Free money, woo hoo! Two, I know…
Read moreMonth: November 2009
what book’s worth a prize this year?
The deadline for submitting nominees for the Lambda Literary Award is rapidly approaching (it’s Tuesday). So this is your last chance to…
Read moreI am thankful
This is my last post until Monday. I might do comments/tweets etc but no actual posts–unless something fabulous or terrible or excessively…
Read moreEssays? Like them or not?
Zadie Smith talks about the essay in the Guardian: For Samuel Johnson in 1755 it is: “A loose sally of the mind;…
Read moremiracle MS cure–uh-huh
From: Cebii Nicola, have you seen this? CCSVI= Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency, the condition Dr. Zamboni is researching. The CTV W5 report:…
Read moreby the Salish Sea
from Wikimedia Commons It’s official. Kelley and I now live by the Salish Sea. We still live by Puget Sound, of course–it’s…
Read moretwo more links–my sweetie is awesome!
Kelley gives some writing advice at io9.com. “Your awesome novel is firing on all thrusters… except one. A major character, who’s important…
Read moreweekly linkage
Just three things today because I’ve been too busy to futz about in the creaking bowels of the interwebs. But they are…
Read moreall boys, again
Another set of book awards, this time the National Book Awards. And, goodness, what a surprise, all boys again. I think I…
Read moreshare day
The day is…well, it’s here. I’ve got nothing. At some point I’ll have, y’know, something, but right now not so much. If…
Read moresurreal learning and…awesomeness x 3
Oh, wow, so this is why teens like surreal fiction: it helps them learn. According to research by psychologists at UC Santa…
Read moreweb producer/editor job at LLF
Here’s today’s big news: the Lambda Literary Foundation is looking for a web producer/editor for the website in development. This is a…
Read moresex and sf symposium
FoAN Jennifer Durham pointed out to me that the Science Fiction Studies Symposium on Sexuality in Science Fiction, edited by Rob Latham,…
Read moremy awesomeness grows
My novelette “It Take Two” has just been selected for a Year’s Best anthology (more on that another time) and here’s the…
Read moresleepy day
It’s a sleepy day for me here in Seattle, so I’m just going to point you to two Sterling Editing posts: NaNoWriMo…
Read morehistorical fact vs. fiction
Most of you already know I’m writing a novel set in seventh-century Britain. This, of course, makes it an historical novel, though…
Read morelinkage
Mostly book stuff, with a poke-fun-at-those-wacky-Catholics moment at the end. (Which I’m allowed to do because I’m a Catholic born and bred.)…
Read morereinventing bookselling
Here’s a Guardian article, nominally about Waterstone’s, a UK book chain (“When it started, Waterstone’s was a breath of fresh air. But…
Read moretwenty years ago
Twenty years ago I was watching the Berlin Wall coming down, beginning a five-week process of selling my stuff, saying my goodbyes…
Read morefor the nose!
Yesterday lunchtime I was sitting idly at the kitchen table waiting for the vegetables to finish steaming (carrots and cabbage, to go…
Read moreediting questions and answers
From: Donna Collier That was an almost orgasmic response. It was indeed, very, very good. Please accept my apologies for the length…
Read moreambition
In an AOL author chat many years ago, the moderator asked me, “What kind of writer are you?” I said, “A good…
Read morelinkage
Still in Hild world, so here’s some linkage instead of a real blog post. (Though I’m considering making this a weekly feature,…
Read moregood in Washington, bad in Maine–updated
As of 10:14 pm, the vote to approve Referendum 71 is leading by a thin margin, 51% to 49%. Many votes still…
Read morethe changing publishing landscape
Kassia Krozser and Lev Grossman talked to Jeffrey Brown on NewsHour recently about ‘the shifting world of book publishing’, and ‘how technology…
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