There are lots of ads on TV for HDTV. As far as I can tell from the ads, HDTV provides you with slow-motion everything. I’m not sure why this is a selling point. :) Let’s see. Myles links to the oldest trees on the planet, which is quite awesome, and reminds me of the glacier photos from low earth orbit photographs also posted recently (weirdly, when I looked at those, I knew without question which were Alaskan glaciers). Jim Hines has been coallating first novels sales data. That’s part one;…
ideas are cheap, but good :)
Sometimes people give me book ideas*. TRUTHSEEKER (out in September!) is one such idea, suggested by my friend Jai. Marith has given me a couple ideas over the years. Ted gives me ideas all the time, usually to my sort of gleeful despair, because I cannot possibly keep up with him. I have long-since had plans to take one of Deborah’s world ideas, turn it on its ear, and make a series of it. Geni picked a phrase out of a Shakespearian play which inspired a two or three book…
mostly baking
I have one complete set of the Walker Papers (URBAN SHAMAN, THUNDERBIRD FALLS, COYOTE DREAMS, WALKING DEAD) in trade paperback left to sell. If you’re interested in it, it’s $75, which includes S&H from Ireland, and I will of course sign them to whomever you like. Leave a comment to arrange the particulars! I made a perfectly lovely applesauce cake for dessert last night. It’s a nice rich spicy cake with a lovely dense texture, and I was asked for the recipe, so I shall put it behind the cut.…
happy day
This is a post of such inconsequentiality, mostly about NCIS and The Princess and the Frog, and a little about food, that I shall put it behind a cut tag.
mostly metrics
A post of mostly metrics, as I haven’t updated in a few days. SPIRIT DANCES is, by way of wordcount, 25% done. Pretty close to that by pagecount, too, at 103 pages of an anticipated 440. (oh god, that number looks big. *ignores it*) I had an unusually good writing day at 4700 words today. If I could do that every weekday I’d be nearly finished with it by Easter. That would be good, but it’s asking a lot. We’ll see. Four Five Six complete sets of the Walker Papers…