I used to like reading big fat books. The bigger and fatter the book the better, because it took me that much longer to read it. I deliberately picked up WISHSONG OF SHANNARA when I was 12 and we were driving up the California coast, because my parents told me, “Find the biggest book you can,” and it was not only big depth-wise, but it was also trade paperback, making it definitely the biggest book I could find in the SF section at the time*. Not so anymore. I’m reading…
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The intarweb tubes have lost their suction today. That’s okay. Instead of dorking around on the computer, I’m alternating between walking, reading, and watching s8 SG:1. This is a pretty good way to spend the day. :) Overall, this season is not as good as the last, er, seven. One of the things I like about SG:1 is that it’s not brilliant television, but it’s damned consistent television full of delightful character moments that rises occasionally to great and more rarely dips to adequate or bad. Sadly, s8 is running…
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tells it like it is. :) miles to Dunharrow: 42
and now, in French!
THUNDERBIRD FALLS is out this month in France–as LA MAGIE DE SIOBHÁN, which I think is a pretty funny title. :) Makes me very curious as to what COYOTE will be titled. ;)
she shoots, she…scores? [chance filter]
This is on my Chance filter, which has been cut down from its previous size. I’ve been talking with Jimmy Valentino at Image’s Shadowline, which is a small Image line that puts out about five books a month, and generally does mini-series of 3 or 4 issues. If the book does well, they pick it up for another mini-series. His first comment on Chance was, “This isn’t bad.” Being a writer, I’ve spent several hours wrestling with those three little words to see what I could milk out of them.…