Got the all-clear from Kickstarter, so I’m working on setting up the page now. Suddenly seems much more real and nerve-wracking. :) So I’d been thinking of running a 45 day campaign, but KS actually recommends 30 days. Is there any particular reason you, my good-hearted readers, feel it should be 45 instead of 30? I have to do a video. Argh. I have no video skills. My only thought is making that lack a feature of the video…
fundamental things
Being a reader, I have unsurprisingly taken a number of fundamental beliefs from the fiction I’ve read. Most of them were things encountered during my early teen years; a few, read later, clarified or distilled things I believed anyway, and hell, some of them are brand-new. I’ve been meaning to write them down for a while now. They’re things like: Sex is good. (Heinlein, ElfQuest, Judy Blume) Cajun food is delicious. (X-Men*) Americans are really, really screwed up about sex and violence. (ElfQuest) Women are not only smart, capable and…
chd & other things
I’m having a terrible time deciding what to do with my hair. There’s no crisis for once, it’s just I keep dying it brown which is fine except it’s…well, brown. Not very interesting. I keep having this vague idea it’ll be a slightly more interesting brown if I dye it, but no. Anyway, so my mom helped me by picking out a…caramel, I think they call it, dye, which will perhaps introduce the slightest bit of interest without making it fire engine red, which is really not what I want.…
Kickstarter teaser: “Magic Hath an Element”
Okay, so the thing about the upcoming Kickstarter campaign (launching October 1!) is that I really *can’t* use a teaser from the actual story as part of the incentive text, because it starts with a scene from RAVEN CALLS and no way no how am I spoiling that scene. :) So I’ve written the first couple chapters of URBAN SHAMAN from Gary’s point of view for a bit of flavor text as to what kind of voice the novella will be in. Enjoy! “Magic Hath an Element” Three days…
new phone
I broke down and got a new phone a few weeks ago. A Samsung Galaxy II S, which is I guess about the newest thing on the market, and which is about to be embargoed over here because Apple’s suing Samsung over some app or other and has won an injunction in the European courts. So I figured if I wanted it I’d better hurry up and get it. I think it’s the most leading-edge piece of tech I’ve ever bought. I’ve been getting used to it. It only took…