Dancing! Looking all grown up
This way lies madness.
(oh all right, i can’t stand waiting until tomorrow to post. :)) Back in about, oh, 2007, my friend Fred Hicks/ (known to many of you as one of the great minds behind Evil Hat Productions) referred to the following as a problem: Fred needs to put together a comics universe Fred says, “With the major cities of DREAM CITY, CHARM CITY, and ELECTRIC CITY” Fred says, “DREAM CITY is the Los Angeles analogue, CHARM CITY is your east-coast politics and crime thang, and ELECTRIC CITY is that sort of…
deeply confused
I’m deeply confused about what day it is. Ted’s been working quite a lot, and he started this last stint on Thursday after only one day off, so I somehow am quite convinced tomorrow should be Saturday. I keep expecting to be able to go to the Saturday Market tomorrow, but no, that’s not going to work. Oh, hey, guys, LAST CHANCE! The Brenda Novak Diabetes Auction item of being a major character in my next urban fantasy series closes in TWELVE HOURS! Can you live with yourself if you…
monday paperwork day
My mother-in-law has arrived, and I’m going to be taking shameless advantage of her over the next few weeks. :) Besides working on the ANGLES revisions, there’s a bunch of just mundane *paperwork* that needs doing, and I have great plans to get it all taken care of on Monday. So I better write it down so I remember what it is: thinks to do on monday: – bank account – passport paperwork – tax stuff – call UPC – transfer money – pack up & ship a whole lotta…
The Long Tail
Sharon Lee says incredibly correct things about The Long Tail. Go read it, then come back and read this. I’ll wait. Did you read it? Okay. We’ll go on, then. The Long Tail and the 1000 True Fans idea are things which I, as a writer, obviously wish to embrace and make use of. I’m especially fond of the *idea* of the 1000 True Fans, where “True Fan” is defined as “someone who will go out of the way to buy every. single. thing. that an artist produces”. For *my*…