Archive for July, 2011
Visual Reading list
July 13th 2011 at 12:12 pm
After getting the office cleaned I consolidated all the books I want to read into a single pile: For those who asked, the books are ordered by structural integrity, so that the pile doesn’t fall over. Not in any reading order.
Order of the mind
July 12th 2011 at 8:52 pm
Whenever my workload gets intense, I find I can’t stand an unclean office. It may be procrastination of the greatest order, but on a gut level it feels like the first step toward getting back in control and the first step in the journey back toward getting caught up. If I hadn’t used something in [...]
Short story singles update
July 11th 2011 at 3:57 pm
Many of you are curious as to how my little experiment selling single short stories for 99 cents is going, particularly since I paused it right before heading down to Barbados (I only had so many hours a day). As I mentioned in my numbers-rich post, Tides From The New Worlds had settled into a [...]
Interesting take on the numbers pertaining to eBook royalties
July 11th 2011 at 10:38 am
A math-type takes a look at eBook royalties and concludes that 25% net isn’t going to cut it in the eBook world. But 50% isn’t the trick either. Very compelling.
Catching back up
July 11th 2011 at 10:20 am
I’m still catching back up on everything (including email) that I owe people since getting back from Barbados, but I have a lot of stacked up work that is going to eat up the bulk of this week. I had just gotten caught back up about two weeks before I left and was feeling rather [...]
Aluminium iPad keyboard case
July 11th 2011 at 10:15 am
I’m very intrigued. It’s one of the nicer cases I’ve seen, and it plugs nicely into my fantasy of walking away from my office and finding a nook in town somewhere with no WiFi and setting up the iPad and writing away like a mad writer man. [link found at GottaBeMobile, where I do some [...]
Short story sale: Jungle Walkers to Armored
July 10th 2011 at 2:34 pm
As Dave Klecha announces on his blog, he and I have sold a short story to the John Joseph Adams edited anthology Armored, to be due out in 2012 from Baen books. It’s about power armor. IO9 covered details about it here not too long ago. It has been a while since I’ve done a [...]
What’s a Barbados Sci Fi Con like? AnimeKon Expo snapshots
July 4th 2011 at 3:12 pm
It was like the ComicCon of the Caribbean! People of all ages. Men and women. A full cross section of the region showed up to share in their love of all things science fiction in a wide variety of media. One thing that struck me about the event was the shared nature of space. The [...]
At the beach…
July 1st 2011 at 4:50 pm
After doing some shopping we retired to the beach for the afternoon. Cocktails and swimming.
TGI Fridays in Barbados
July 1st 2011 at 4:45 pm
Last night when we asked a taxi driver to take us somewhere good to eat he kept trying to take us to TGI Fridays. Not when there’s roti to be had. Nah.
