Monthly Archives: November 2010
This is my every day
Via Mary Robinette Kowal, this is pretty much my every single day:
Sourdough and Other Stories goes digital
And in the mail this morning …
… it was worth the indignity of answering the door in my PJs, because the below was the result – All Hail, Steampunk II!!
Questions, answered.
Mr DeNardo over at SF Signal is asking questions again. This time it’s about what to give the geek/nerd in your life for Christmas/insert holiday of choice here. People answering include, but are not restricted to, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Martha Wells, Jeff VanderMeer and moi.
Go here for geeky giftly goodness.
For the record: I still want an otter.
The Piratical Drive-by: Dirk Flinthart
Writer, raconteur, martial arts practitioner, cook extraordinaire, editor, librettist and frequent notorious teller of porkies, Dirk Flinthart (not his real name) is responsible for tomes such as Brotherly Love and Angel Rising. He has ably edited the Canterbury 2100 anthology and ASIM. His antics may or may
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Jeff VanderMeer on Cooking Chicken Dinners and Knowing Your Limits
Via Bibliophile Stalker (again, thank you, Charles!) this from Jeff VanderMeer, which makes some great points about not wearing out your creativity.
Sometimes we forget to breathe when it comes to our creativity. By which I mean we are so busy creating and interacting with the world that we forget to pause, to be silent, to be alone. The imagination, the
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Hello, Nicola Morgan
I’ve only just found Nicola Morgan through the graces of the Bibliophile Stalker, and already I heart her sensible advice.
Agent Pitching Etiquette contains such gems as: “be sensitive to the glazing over of the eyes of an agent”, “we also need to display good behaviour and common sense”, and “it will gain you nothing if you bore the pants off
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