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Susanna Clarke does a Q&A about Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. There was an interesting question about where all of the female magicians were in Clarke’s book. And I have to admit, that question never crossed my mind. I felt Clarke was writing a certain sort of book, set in England during an alternate 1830s-ish […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 – The military acknowledged Friday in a briefing for a ranking Senate Republican that news articles written by American troops had been placed as paid advertisements in the Iraqi news media and not always properly identified. Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters after

“Miss Julie is a modern character which does not mean that the man-hating half-woman has not existed in every age, just that she has now been discovered, has come out into the open and made herself heard. Victim of a superstition (one that has seized even stronger minds) that woman, this stunted form of human

Ah, there’s nothing better than the book about the writer who can’t sell a book! (thanks, Patrick!)

Wow, the day job is shit right now, as my lack of blogging all week aptly illustrates. Anyway, moving on.

So, while dinner cooks and the novel prints out for the second round of line edits, I got to thinking again about the MZB heroine. You know, the Marion Zimmer Bradley heroine. The Sword and Sorceress anthologies? Anybody who’s old enough to remember MZB’s fantasy magazine before it went defunct probably knows what I’m talking

This month, I want to double that.

And I intend to have a very Merry Christmas, thank you, despite my credit card balance. heh heh Someday I’ll figure that shit out.

So I can stay out late on a Wednesday night and see a political play about Indira Ghandi and eat Thai food with local writers. You know, I wouldn’t have to get up at 5:30 the next morning. Bah. This fucking job.

I’ve been having a lot of dreams about food. I don’t feel like I’m depriving myself of anything. I think it’s my body’s craving for more protein. It’s the morning weight routine that does it. Having a tough time getting back to the gym after the Thanksgiving break. Isn’t that always the way? Sat down