My editor calls and I say, with much apologizing. “Did you get my e-mail? There’s a lot of art in this Dragonbreath—more than usual—and I might need an extension to November first.” EDITOR: But…wait…your deadline was November 1st. ME: It was? EDITOR: Yep. ME: …oh. Well, never mind then. EDITOR: You are the only person […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Okay, first off– *MUPPETFLAIL* AAAAAAHH! Wendy Davis! DOMA! Prop 9! Has this been crazy or what!? AAAAAAAAAAHH! I am proud of Texas, and I am never proud of Texas. And I can’t even tell you on the DOMA thing. Dude. Some days you can actually stand on a rock and watch history washing over you. […]
WARNING: Rambling birding story ahead! So there we were, cruising toward a fjord at the crack of god-awful, and we were all awake because we had crossed multiple time-zones and had boat-lag. And I was idly staring out the window with my bins and a spotted a gull and then there was this other bird […]
So hey, Alaska is damn spectacular! (You probably knew that already.) We stopped in Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria, which is in British Columbia. There’s a lot I could talk about—fantastic people, some neat art, cruise food, etc. But I’ll stick with animals for now, because that’s what I’m good at. I spotted many, many awesome […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, marsupials of all descriptions–WE HAVE LIFT-OFF! THE DIGGER OMNIBUS KICKSTARTER IN ALL ITS OMNIBUSSYNESS! We got goals. We got stretch goals. We got art. We got—are you ready? Commemorative hand-forged pickaxes. (Also foam pickaxes.) We have video. WE HAVE A KICKSTARTER. (And I am terrified. Utterly terrified. I have never done anything […]
While having a pet pass away peacefully in their sleep is undoubtedly best for the pet and all, it is very hard on every other animal in the household. Because whenever I see one of the animals sleeping now (and the cats are cats and the dogs are elderly so everybody sleeps a LOT) I […]
Hey, gang, a whole lot of travel in my immediate future, so any orders put in between the 9th and the 22th of June are going to be delayed until after the 24th, and owing to two cons back to back, orders placed between then and the end of June may be delayed by a […]
In other news, I spent Monday night playing D&D and working on this fellow. I have been wanting to paint a crested caracara since I saw one in Texas last year. There is something just absurdly elegant about them and their extravagant toupees. As always, my scanner gets a little irked on the blues–some of […]
So—and unless there’s something REALLY exciting, this is more or less my last word on the SFWA thing—one of the tropes going around is that we have to fix this from the inside. That the only right thing to do is to work to change the attitudes using our position within the organization. Actually, no. […]
So it went down like this. SFWA announced that they’re putting a task force on fixing the Bulletin RIGHT NOW and that’s a good thing. We are hopeful! John Scalzi said, somewhat ruefully, on Twitter that this is what he gets for thinking that the last month of his tenure as SFWA president would be […]
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