thinks to do

– get liz’s calendar in the mail – get book in the mail – get ORSSP to the last patron – laundry – finish chapter two ahahahah :p

ElectriCity in motion!

My project this week (and perhaps into next week) is working on the ElectriCity script. I got some feedback from beta readers (you know who you are, & I thank you!) which has already improved the first chapter, and after flailing around for a day and a half on the second chapter I remembered that a detailed synopsis does not a beatsheet* make, so I threw a beatsheet together and the second chapter is going swimmingly now. It’s not swimming as fast as I want, of course. I mean, for…

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Happy Birthday, Gary!

Today is Gary Muldoon’s 80th birthday. Kyle Cassidy and “No Dominion” cover model Charles “The Hunk” Summerfield had such a great time with the “No Dominion” cover shoot that they stole off to get another couple pictures of Gary on Christmas Eve: Happy Birthday, Gary, and Happy New Year to the world! (And also happy birthday to my nephew Seirid, who is 7 years old today!)

too many ambitions.

I love the new year. It may be my favorite holiday, even if it’s perfectly silly for it to fall ten days after the solstice instead of on it. But I love the whole fresh start idea and I love resolutions and ambitions and just all of it. The only problem is I have too many ambitions (a statement which probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anybody who’s read my blog for more than two weeks). For example, in 2012 I’d like to: – get fit – gain a…

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Old Races Short Story Project: Mission Accomplished

I’ve just shut down all the links for buying in to the Old Races Short Story Project. If, for some reason, you have waited until the very last minute and *desperately* want to buy in, you can email me up until midnight Pacific and we’ll arrange something. But it may involve mockery. :) In the end I had about 180 patrons for the ORSSP, and it made in the region of $4K for six short stories. That’s a pretty damned good market value, around $.11 a word, so thank you.…

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