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I’m taking some much-needed time off from work next week, so COB today is the start of a 5-day weekend. Thank god. I’m so burned out at this job. The plan is to watch a lot of movies, sleep a lot, read a lot, and start tDW line edits. And not much else. Maybe water […]

Was going over the Wiscon brochure and discovered this tidbit: Samuel R. Delany to Interview Joanna Russ Unable to attend WisCon because of health problems, Ms. Russ nevertheless wants to participate in WisCon 30: she suggested a telephone interview. How could we refuse? You are all invited to listen when Samuel R. Delany interviews Joanna

Whew. All neatly input into the text. Now: write the goddamn last final 100 pages, arg! And start tDW line edits. And work on book 2 of tDW series (in my spare time). And fly to Indy tomorrow (corporate FUCKTARDS!!!!).

Had a very nice dinner out with Jenn and James & Ysa. Managed to get home before the big thunderstorm hit. Inputting the last 60 pages of line edits of God’s War into the text. I’ll be happy when that’s done – tDW is next up for reading and line edits, then I’ll have to

Because sometimes what you write hits people like this: Seriously, there are only a handful of short stories that I look back on and remember vividly: Neil Gaiman’s version of Snow White, Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream,” Kate Wilhelm’s “The Funeral,” Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” others I am neglecting,

Oh, how I love those corporate moments when the fact that I screwed something up becomes an asset to the company and means I *don’t* have to do something ALL OVER AGAIN. Ever better, I had some bullshit excuse as to why I just “decided” not to update those particular dates, “Seeings as all of

My back-porch garden is growing. It is most excellent. The older I get, the more I start to take pleasure in the little things again. The little things add up. One of the cab drivers in Indy asked me if I was 22 or 23, because I looked “too young” to have a Master’s degree.

Anybody in Chicagoland looking for a really good Admin/Executive Assistant/Contract Writer/Project Coordinator? Honestly, I can do just about anything for 40-50K a year. I’m not really picky. Just don’t send me to Indianapolis.

First major pass of edits are done for The Dragon’s Wall. The book is going to fucking rock. Printing it out tonight or tomorrow and doing line edits on the whole shebang. Inputting line edits, then it goes to the next round of readers for feedback. At least this book will go out on time.