COOLEST THING EVER: Jim’s latest Dresden book, WHITE NIGHT, is currently #5 on the New York Times Bestseller list. AHAHAHAHAHAHAH! *stupid beaming idiot grin*! As was saying last WFC, “I now have a new first name. I will now be eternally referred to as New York Times Bestselling Author Steven Brust.” (We had a really good time introducing him to anybody who came near the table as New York Times Bestselling Author Steven Brust, in fact. *giggles*) I must get somewhere where Jim is so I can spent a lot…
COOLEST! CABS! EVAR!
EcoCabs! Everybody should have one of these! They should take cars away and make people drive these instead! It’d be great for everyone’s figures, and the roads would be much less terrifying! I must go to Dublin and ride in one of these!
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
So there’s this huge bruhaha going on in the SF/F community right now. Reigning VP of the Science Fiction Writers of America Howard V. Hendrix posted a madly controversial commentary about the SFWA and, among other things, writers giving work away on the internet. You can read the post here, along with all the ranting it’s produced. There are a couple of money shots in it, including a bit where he calls people who post professional fiction online “pixel-stained technopeasant wretches”. The SF community being what it is, they seized…
preparing for revisions
It’s amazing how much a manuscript can be reduced by changing font style and paragraph spacing. I’m printing out HOUSE OF CARDS for revisions (blee), and it’s a 475 page manuscript in my usual style (Courier font size 12, line height set to exact: 25pt, 1″ margins all around on letter-sized paper). Not wanting to print it 2 sheets to a page, and being too lazy to deal with the printer’s double-side printing capacity (it works, but it requires re-feeding the paper manually, and it’s a bother, plus the pages…
wonderful day!
I have had an absolutely fantastic afternoon. This weekend is the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Cobh was the Titanic’s last port of call before setting off toward America, and so they’ve got stuff going on over the weekend. One of the things I’d read about was a group of musicians who’ve put together a 5 piece band like the one that played on the Titanic the night it sank, and (part of, anyway) their shtick is to do the music played that night, or an approximation…