Hah! I got the permission slip! (I tell you, using a fax scares me. I’m Not Familiar with those beasts!) Oops, she’s trying to fax again. Hm. And I don’t have her email. I wonder if the number on the sheets is good to call; it’s actually a different person than the one listed on the excerpt agreement. Well, I’ll try the number I do have. :) ANYWAY! In all its glory, the cover for URBAN SHAMAN: *bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce*! Tell me what you think!
Warren Ellis Does It Again
Warren Ellis has once again used the Internet for Doing Cool Shit. Today’s stunt is Strange Machine, a blog of Futurosity, in which he has invited his LiveJournal readers to write, draw, manipulate–in some way, create–their vision of the future. How far a future doesn’t matter; whose future doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you create something, and post it to Strange Machine, as one of hundreds of other creators, coming together for twenty-four hours. My submission is an excerpt from THE END OF DAYS, a post-Apocalyptic novel of…
THE END OF DAYS: an excerpt from a novel of post-apocalyptic America
They say a decade isn’t measured by the zeroes at the end of the Years Of Our Lord, but by the events that shape it. Me, I was fifteen on November 9th, 1989. Even then I knew, right in the gut of me, that was the end of the Eighties. Everybody knows when the Nineties ended. But even before that, there were signs erupting like night flares: blackouts in California, on the East Coast–praise be to Allah for showing the Americans what it’s like, even if only for a few…
thinks to do
thinks to do today: 1. work on Maria’s site 2. finish up BANSHEE CRIES proposal 3. print out IMMORTAL BELOVED for Mom and Dad 4. continue to feel like a geek for buying the fax machine :)
just the fax, ma’am
I have just bought a fax machine. I feel like an utter dweeb. :) I’ve needed one just enough in the last year or so that not having one is really annoying, but having one feels like complete and total overkill. But hey, I’ve faxed off my cover-and-excerpt permission form, and at least that’s cool! *laugh*