Guess who’s going to be in Orlando next month? I’m one of the guests of honor at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts conference in Orlando from March 13-16, 2024! It looks fun and exciting, and I’m really looking forward to it! I’m sorry I haven’t made this news public earlier, but last year was so difficult that I wasn’t sure until quite recently that I’d actually be able to participate in the conference, so I’d been keeping quiet until I was sure I wouldn’t be disappointing…
Author: mizkit
Picoreview: The Mitchells vs the Machines
Picoreview: Mitchells vs the Machines: did not finish This was one of those I’d been meaning to get around to seeing because the reviews were so great, so I finally started it, and…half an hour in, I paused it, read the Wiki, and decided that yeah, no, it was not going to redeem itself and I didn’t need to finish watching it. I 100% believe all the good reviews, honestly. The art style is fun, the animation is engaging, the characters are plausible, etc. It was subtly clear from what…
Aeon Timeline & Scrivener: a how-to for syncing
Okay, background: I have spent years fiddling with Aeon Timeline. I love the visuals on it, I like having a timeline for my books, and I know it’s way more useful than I’ve been using it for, but I have not, for the life of me, been able to make it sync with Scrivener, which it’s Supposed To Do. My HOPE was it should probably let you put all the information into Scrivener, which would then magically populate the information into Aeon Timeline in some way, but…well, I’ve spent ages…
The Great Tisane Experiment
My workplace is, as you will no doubt have heard me complain vociferously if you follow me elsewhere, Cold. I am colder in general in Ireland than I was in Alaska, which Irish people keep telling me is due to it being a wet cold, but as I’m colder inside rather than outside, I think the fundamental problem is a combination of lousy insulation and a radically different idea as to what constitutes an acceptable indoor temperature. (And the outside door, which I am unfortunately close to, just stuck open.…
how many words is that, anyway?
Whilst I was being celebratory about 50 published books, one of my friends asked how many words that was, anyway. Anybody wanna take a guess? (You can put it in the comments BEFORE you finish reading this post. I’ll put some spoiler space in, or something. :)) The thing is, I used to have a pretty good idea, actually. I’d kinda kept track up through the end of the publication of the Walker Papers, but that was…a while ago now. So I had to go add it up. And I…