Monthly Archives: August 2010

Aug
16

Beach-combing Part the Second

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This past weekend was long and very lacking in sleep. Not for any one particular reason – just lots to do, I guess. School shopping for the kids (and really, why the hell does my son need to bring in 12 gluesticks? Along with every other student? Are they making meth with this stuff?) Work stuff, writing stuff. Web stuff. I actually made the decision to step down as webmaster for FF&P. I want to do it…but things have finally come to a head time-wise and I’ve got to cut some things. And it’s not fair to everyone to have a slack-ass for a webmaster. But something has to give, and unfortunately it’s the web stuff right now. Not that I’m going to just dump and run. I’m hoping someone will step up to the plate here soon that I can train. Anyway, we headed back up to LBI on… Read more
Aug
12

Blast From the Past

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Heh. I remember watching MTV for HOURS waiting for this video to come on. Even in 6th grade, I knew comic-book romance could never die. Pretty much one of the best videos ever made, really – I mean, sure the effects are little dated, but there was an actual story. Plus the dude was a hottie. 😉… Read more
Aug
12

Winds of Change

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By now there probably aren’t too many people in the pub world that aren’t aware of what’s going on over at Dorchester. And I’m not really planning on discussing all the sordid details – the pros and the cons of epubbing or if this move is truly an act of desperation vs a bold maneuver into the future. There are plenty of other places out there that have raging debates on the topic: Jim Hines Smart Bitches Dear Author JA Konrath And regardless of what the outcome is, no one can say the move isn’t polarizing. And of course, everyone feels terribly for the authors, most of whom were completely blindsided by the news – some of them had books that were scheduled to be released next month. And now? *poof* Or ebook only. As to the rest of it, I’m not entirely sure. Everyone seems to be clamoring in… Read more
Aug
10

Word Crunching

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I’ve been woefully neglectful of my wordcount sidebars there for a while. *cough*. Like probably at least six months. On the other hand, I haven’t been writing as much as I might otherwise. The sheer amount of work with the copyedits/revisions/rewrites and all the rest of it have left me a bit of a mental vegetable. I’ll admit there’s a part of me that thinks if I were a better writer or just a better person, I would somehow have manged to continue writing additional stuff all this time, but you know, I can only do so much. And of course, in the case of Shadow Weaver, I had to wait and see how Brush of Darkness turned out before I could pick back up with it. And I have, finally. It’s a little slow, at the moment, since I have to pull apart some of the plot points to… Read more
Aug
9

Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk

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Even though I don’t get the chance to go to many concerts these days, I jumped at the opportunity to see Rufus and Martha Wainwright this past Saturday. (They were playing at the Strathmore, which is were I saw the last David Garrett concert as well.) I did drag mr myn along as well, although I don’t think it was really his scene – he’s definitely more of a metal hair-band kind of guy, but he had heard one or two songs from RW (plus I think he was doing the husband suck up, which earns him many brownie points, so that’s always good. At any rate, you may not have  heard of Rufus directly – his music doesn’t tend to get much radio play, but you’ll hear his stuff in movie soundtracks (i.e. Hallelujah in Shrek or La Complainte de la Butte from Moulin Rouge. Still, he’s pretty damn… Read more