Good weekend. Got the heavy lifting done on the RAVEN CALLS revisions. Got ten more chapters to go through and then I have to go back and fix a language inconsistency and then they should be done. Hopefully will finish up tomorrow morning & get it turned in before opening of business East Coast time. Woot. Thursday last I went to see Gilda at the IFI. Sadly it was sold out, so I walked across the river and went to Horrible Bosses instead. It was really pretty funny, if not…
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Arty Deirdre
Arty shot of my sister from a photoshoot a couple weeks ago. :)
smart phones
Okay, I’ve talked myself into a smartphone, but I don’t know much about them. Here’s what I want in a phone; I’m sure somebody out there can tell me what phone I want. :) – a better-than-smartphone-average camera – either a qwerty keyboard or a highly convincing explanation as to how touchscreens are easy enough to use that a qwerty’s not necessary – good battery life (not having to charge it every night would be nice) – wifi From *looking* at the phones, possibly a Blackberry with a slide-out keyboard…
Emerald Eyes
I have read Daniel Keys Moran’s EMERALD EYES only once before, and that was…more than fifteen years ago. Long enough ago that I didn’t recognize, or do not recall recognizing, the Jim Steinman lyrics quoted in the book, and that would put me in my early twenties. Very early twenties. Anyway, I’ve re-read THE LONG RUN and THE LAST DANCER repeatedly, but EE never quite struck me as re-read material. But since the newest book in The Continuing Time has just been released, I thought I’d start at the beginning.…
lovely day!
It was a lovely day both literally and figuratively. I got about four solid hours of work done on the revisions for RAVEN CALLS, then had lunch with a reader from Seattle who’s here for a couple of weeks. That was great fun. He and his wife are terrific and I really enjoyed getting to meet them. Then it was time for a walk in the beeyoooooteeful sunshine, and it’s been a quiet evening at home since. A very, very nice day!