spider-man, audio books, rewrites, oh my!

Audible.com has COYOTE DREAMS in! The books must be doing pretty well in audio format, because this is *way* faster than either of the other two were released. I got CDs of the first two books just a week or so ago, in fact, which made me beam a lot. :) Spider-Man III review, since several people have asked me: spoiler-free, but In a nutshell: far, far too long, but better than I expected. Mind you, I went in with low expectations. The pacing was bad (it has been for…

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TEN SWIMS!

I have swum TEN TIMES! I am very proud of myself. I have earned a 10 day pool pass, which is slightly cheaper than paying as you go. Today I did my 2K straight, just kind of to see if I could. I could. :) The last 500 meters, somebody who could *swim* was in the lane with me. We were about dead even in speed, though I don’t know which of us would be faster if we were actually trying. Probably him, ’cause, well, boy. I told Ted this,…

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gnah

Mutter, mutter. I have just finally done what I ought to have done a long time ago, which is remove the solitaire link from the quick links in the start menu. I know it’s still on the computer somewhere, but I don’t actually know where it’s located (do not, for God’s sake, tell me) and I think probably not having it available with two clicks will prevent it from being a temptation. I have been screwing around far too much playing that game. :P I have ordered a print of…

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making progress

I’ve finished another chapter in the HOUSE OF CARDS revisions and and I know what to do next. I also broke 200 pages on the revised manuscript and am a couple thousand words shy of 50K. I’m also about 15 pages behind where I was at the same chapter in the original manuscript, but what one might delicately call “a whole fucking shitload” of stuff has happened that did not happen previously, and all the stuff that comes later still has to happen. I anticipate it breaking 500 pages when…

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more interviewy goodness!

Hey! Another interview went up today! This one’s with the Ingram Library Services, and was conducted by a very cool woman I met at WFC last year. Interviewy goodness here! I think this one’s pretty funny. :) pointed me at a totally pimped out Cadbury creme egg. OMG. miles to Minas Tirith: 133 ytd wordcount: 84,500 sekrit number: 10.5