I nicked this meme from Myles weeks ago, but I didn’t have any good fonts installed on this computer yet so I hadn’t actually posted my results. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band. 2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. 3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. You then take the pic and add text to it (I cropped mine, and used five…
many, many things
This has been a very busy week. Some highlights: * I’ve been invited to be a workshop teacher at a writer’s conference in South Carolina this October. I’ll post more about that when I have more details, but it looks like a really exciting, intense weekend, and I’m looking forward to it. It’s also the weekend before WFC, so we’re thinking we might just go Stateside and stay there a few weeks like we did last year. * I’ve arranged a bonanza signing at the Forbidden Planet in London, tentatively…
on marketing
Michelle Sagara, who writes amazingly Big Fat Fantasy under that name, and occasionally under Michelle Sagara West, and who writes the extremely enjoyable “Cast” series for Luna as Michelle West, and who *also* works in a bookstore, has posted an entry about an encounter with a customer who wanted to know about what she did to self-promote her books. Her answer was, “Nothing,” (but the entry is well worth reading) and it reminded me quite vividly of the first panel I was ever on at a SF convention. The panel…
thursdays start my week
I have, for years and years now, kind of considered Thursday to be the start of my week. This is because Shaun and Ted so frequently worked weekend hours, so they often had Tues/Weds off, and I would just work to that schedule, pretty much. Shaun, though, moved away two years ago (wow, snif!), and Ted is now looking at Monday-Friday day jobs. My schedule may finally return to what the usual working world’s is. *boggle* Stupid hand is improving. My *temper* is fragmenting as the days go by and…
*beams*!
HEART OF STONE in its natural habitat–Central Park, NYC!–compliments of Tersa! *beams*! Is that not awesome? Do I not have the best friends EVAH? *beams more*