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My buddy Jenn and I went to brunch over at Mary Anne’s yesterday and ate good food and talked shop. I also had the opportunity to meet Jennifer Stevenson, who wrote the recently released trash sex magic. We talked about selling novels – it apparently took Jennifer about twenty years to sell hers – and […]

Here’s the final word on nutrition and health. It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies: 1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Americans, British or Canadians. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the

Matt Cheney’s got a great post up – What if the Presidential debates were run by SF fans? They might go something like this: MODERATOR: Welcome to the first World Science Fiction Presidential Debate, sponsored by Tor Books and Baen Books. Let’s start right off. What do you think about the threat of clones and/or

Bear with me, as I am resurfacing from the land of the dead… Only to read via mousewords about a woman’s “romantic” memoir about her discovery of self through sodomy: “You open your ass and you open your mind and you open your heart.” WTF? Oh. She’s from New York. I mean, what kind of

Me: Hey, Jenn, I just finished the copy of Zelazny’s Guns of Avalon that you loaned me. My buddy Jenn: Great! How did you like it? Me: It was cool. Zelazny does in 200 pages what all these other writers do in a ten book series. Though, if we put Martin into that category… I’d

I’m finishing up Angela Carter’s Heroes & Villains (which I enjoy because it’s – because it’s Angela Carter), and there’s this quote at the beginning: “Ou fuir, dans un pays inconnu, desert, ou habite par des betes feroces, et par des sauvages aussi barbares qu’elles?” Now, my grandmother is from France (she was a war

I’m taking tomorrow off work to do some less distraction-filled fiction writing. Just got back from lunch, where I was told that my credit card had expired ::insert a moment of mind-numbing terror here:: Gave over my bank card. Unfortunately, my bank card only had $10 on it, and lunch came to $11.53. To my

This is how the debate should have run. Now *that* would have been a smart, informed, pissing contest. Smart guys are hot.

Wheee! The Ladies’ Auxillary is going to Iraq! To teach Iraqi women how to be “real women” instead of Evil Feminists! Go Lynn Cheney! And, for something completely different: Be sure to check out Team America sneak peaks coming in on the 9th, with an opening day of the 15th. If you haven’t heard about

My buddy Jenn forwarded this to me: THE SECRET DIARY OF EDITOR #19! And, my personal favorites: THE SECRET DIARY OF CLUELESS NEWBIE #43 and THE SECRET DIARY OF FRUSTRATED WRITER #77