Yes, I got an iPad

April 29th 2010 at 4:11 pm

I broke down, due to some unexpected income, and got an iPad today after having a nice lunch catching up with fellow writer buddies Charlie Finlay and Paul Melko.
I’ve written up my impressions of an hour playing with it earlier. Now I’m going for a more in depth test myself.
What are your favorite iPad apps?

USA losing trees faster than any other country

April 28th 2010 at 12:00 pm

Save The Rain American Forest! Pertinent pull quote that caught my attention:

Out of seven of the most heavily forested nations on Earth, the United States experienced a greater percentage of forest loss from 2000 to 2005 than did any of the other countries, a study said Monday. The United States lost more than [...]

It’s Just a Draft: Revising Clarion

April 27th 2010 at 11:39 am

A new chapter of It’s All Just A Draft is up: Revising Clarion. I cover what came next just after the Clarion workshop was done. Sorry for the delay, last week I was at Oddcon, and yesterday I was finishing up revisions on a short story.
The files are provided as in-progress RTFs linked below. Donations [...]

Fourth Time’s a Charm

April 27th 2010 at 11:30 am

Well, I spent half an hour writing about my emotional reaction to a short story I just sold, but can’t tell you to where just yet until I sign a contract, that took me four attempts to write over 12 years. And then wordpress ate it.
So here are the bullet points, because I don’t have [...]

Books for sale Tuesday

April 20th 2010 at 8:43 am

So the only, very minor, awkward thing that happened at Oddcon was that the Dealer room didn’t have any copies of Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, or Sly Mongoose. Fans were disappointed, and had been hoping to buy some copies of books to have signed while there. Since I was the GoH, it didn’t occur to me [...]

I Was an Oddcon Guest of Honor

April 19th 2010 at 11:11 pm

So Harry Turtledove, Monte Cook and I walk into a bar…
Wait, wait, let’s back that up. As I mentioned in my last blog post I was the Guest of Honor at Odyssey Con, a science fiction and fantasy convention that’s been in the Madison area for the last ten years. Last year I was invited [...]

Oddcon Guest of Honor

April 15th 2010 at 5:20 pm

I’m sitting in a hotel room somewhere in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ve just been flown out by the nice folks at Oddcon to be their Guest of Honor. As I mentioned on twitter, I’m pretty psyched about this as its the first time anyone has asked me to be a GOH at an event (they asked [...]

iPad impressions

April 14th 2010 at 3:27 pm

I spent an hour playing with an iPad in Columbus recently, as I’ve been trying to duck questions about how I feel about it as much as possible until I held one in my own hand for an hour and read a few chapters to get a real feel for it. There are many other [...]

The Alchemist & The Executioness

April 13th 2010 at 8:37 am

So I’ve talked about a novella I’ve been fiddling around with for the last year, The Executioness, off and on. I’m happy to report that it’s finished. But that’s not all.
The Executioness is going to be one of two novellas, put together back to back (like the old Ace doubles) to create a larger project [...]

1 Year!

April 12th 2010 at 1:14 pm

The twins turned 1 this weekend! I had a pic with Calli with a spoon and her first slice of cake ever! But they were both pretty tired by the time we got to this part, so it wasn’t a super good one. But I did make Emily a card (thanks to iPhoto) that featured [...]