a good superhero day

It’s been a good superhero day. First, this morning: Young Indiana, looking at a picture of the Carol Danvers Ms Marvel: Is that Lightning Lady? Me: . o O ( wow, i have really *got* to write a comic of his superhero characters! ) Later, in the rain: Young Indiana: I’m Superman! I’ll stop the rain! Me: We’re gonna need Storm for that, honey. Young Indiana: STORM! Can you please stop the rain? *rain stops* (srsly, got a whole lineup of superheros now. the invisible hulk (which is like my…

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work night

Tonight is a work night and I have no idea what to work on. I’ve finished revisions on STONE’S THROE, so I don’t have to worry about that. The next major project up on my docket is my nephew’s book, so that would obviously be the smart thing to work on, but I’m in one of those headspaces where I’d like to do something quick and fun just to get something *written* so that I feel all “woo go me look how much I got done!” :) I have a…

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Ah! Chance!

Ah! Fernando Granea, one of my Take A Chance artists, sent me this for my birthday! *happy dances*! :) I have got so much comic stuff I want to do. Should be doing. Need to do. In my copious free time. Ai. (Seriously. A Chance-world prequel. A concurrent-to-Chance story. ElectriCity. That girl-and-her-dragon idea from years ago. I just wish I knew what the hell to do with *Chance*…)

Oh, Jay.

I was supposed to write a book with Jay Lake. Back in the day–I think, in fact, that it was the first (and somehow possibly only, but no, that can’t be right) time we met in real life, at World Fantasy in Saratoga Springs–this whole discussion about the speed with which Jay and I wrote came up. We got this idea to do some Stunt Writing: we’d get together someday and write a book together, ideally in the front window of, say, Borderlands in San Francisco, with a giant screen…

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Picoreview: Days of Future Past

Picoreview: Days of Future Past: YAY There was not a moment of completely suspended disbelief the way Nightcrawler’s opening scene in X2 took me in, but that was a thoroughly enjoyable film and had a moment *almost* that good. I want to see it again! Spoilers right through the end of the movie behind the cut, so don’t click through if you don’t wanna know. :)