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21:50 “Being Human,” Brit series about a vampire, a werewolf & a ghost sharing a flat, premieres on BBC America July 25. is.gd/HK0J # 21:52 Wonder if I’ll be able to download it from iTunes? I tried cycling to a … Continue reading →

Aaron Shepard (Aiming at Amazon) just posted to his blog that Amazon is discontinuing its “Amazon Connect” service, which allows authors with “verified” books to post blog entries on their book pages, send automatic notifications to customers who have bought … Continue reading →

Bummer…the only thing worse than not winning the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Older Writers’ Grant is finding out that I didn’t win from someone else’s LJ. I haven’t gotten the official notification yet. I just sent Christina’s galley proof off to … Continue reading →

12:24 Sci Fi Wire has a fairly long interview with Anthony Stewart Head about his role as Uther in the BBC series *Merlin* is.gd/F9WI # 12:32 The team who hold the rights to the original Buffy movie are planning to … Continue reading →

17:17 I hope everyone is having a nice Memorial Day! We certainly have stunning weather here. It’s just another work day for me, though. # 18:45 I’ve been searching for a used/refurbished/*cheap* projector for presentations, conference room not auditorium scale, … Continue reading →

18:25 *sigh* Looking forward to having 3 days to get lots of work accomplished is always more fun than spending the 3 days doing the work. # 21:01 What the Senate Finance Committee *refused* to hear in favor of non-profit … Continue reading →

00:12 Philadelphia, Mississippi, famed for 1964 Klan murders of 3 civil rgts workers, just elected its 1st black mayor. WAY2GO! is.gd/Cr4J # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

20:35 What do I have in common with author James Patterson’s ex-g.f? He likes our writing so much, he uses it in his books! is.gd/CaID # 20:41 I finished my editing pass of *The Longer the Fall.* 7,291 words and … Continue reading →

Not that this doesn’t happen to me all the time, but this is probably the highest level plagiarism I’ve been a victim of so far. I have a copy of James Patterson’s Violets Are Blue, published in 2002, and I … Continue reading →

21:52 Revising to eliminate passive voice from descriptions is an effing P.I.T.A. 🙁 I end up cutting a lot of the description entirely! # 21:55 That’s not a bad thing, actually, & the prose is much improved for being active … Continue reading →