Hello Ardi! Ardipithcus ramidus, Lucy's great great great great great...grandmother.

I am delighted to meet her :-)

It's not new (dated Nov, 2008), but I've only just run across a review of Neo-opsis #15 on "The Fix". The review of "The Knife in the Mirror" is generally favorable, and the criticisms gave me some things to think about.

Yeah, yeah, I know. A lot of you weren't born.

NASA's new enhanced version of the original footage (which they apparently taped over years ago and had to retrieve copies from news outlets)

Because I haven't been doing much with my fiction for quite some time. I am currently working on something, and actually have a rhythm going, which feels great.

In the meantime, I do have a scientific publication coming out soon in Birth Defects Research Part B: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. I'm not sure exactly which issue it will ( Read more... )

I think it is amazing and wonderful that Darwin and Lincoln were born on exactly the same day.

So I guess I'll be having more time on my hands. I'm trying to find the silver lining, in that I have recently started writing again. The long dry spell was more about time and exhaustion than being "blocked" per se; still, I have noticed through the years that I seem to have more creative drive when life is not going so well. So maybe that ( Read more... )

Issue 15 of Neo-Opsis is in print, including my story "The Knife In the Mirror." Just got my contributor's copies yesterday, and I am a very happy camper!

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Baycon is a commuter event for me, which is good, because I don’t have to spring for a hotel and can sleep in my own bed. It is also bad, because it allows me get away with not schmoozing, and I miss any and all evening events. This year was worse than usual, because I haven’t been entirely well (though nothing compared to the Wiscon plague!). ( Read more... )

Neo-opsis is buying "The Knife in the Mirror"! I don't have details on the issue yet, but will post as I get more information. I am so, so, so pleased about this!

In other news, I have my copy of Potter's Field 2. Beautiful color cover and black and white illustrations. Not to mention eleven creepy and wonderful stories. All horror lovers ( Read more... )