Ugh ( Read more... )

It's been a very good weekend ( Read more... )

In my office at work, I have action figures. You can probably guess what kinds.

One is a Jane Austen action figure, sent to me by stephanieburgis and psamphire. A couple of days ago, my Jane went up against the secretary's Mark Twain at the front desk. Yesterday I came in and the secretary's Jane Austen was stabbing my Jane in the neck with a quill pen. This ( Read more... )

One good thing about writing this second book is that novel research involves cooking and eating a lot of bacon. I haven't yet quite figured out how best to cook bacon, however. I have tried the jaylake method, which involves throwing a hunk of sliced bacon into a cast-iron pan and letting it cook for, what, an hour? over low heat ( Read more... )

Quiet morning. Walked to work in the dark, just me and the tame rabbits, the possums, and the low, fat moon looking over my shoulder.

Listening to Greg Brown singing "Dream Cafe".

There's flowers now on Linn Street
And the new moon just above...
They tore down all the houses
Where we used to make love.

Nobody here. Coffee's perking.

velourmane is a fiction MFA student here at the University of Iowa and is teaching a class this spring semester on revision.

Revision!

On her LJ, for her class, she is asking you writers to reflect on your revision process. Go help out a fellow writer! Tell Rachel all about how you revise your work!

Ninety-nine bottles of very good beer. The family is healthy and happy. J's tenure will be confirmed in a month or two. My sister had a baby, my dad grew a funky goatee, my mom continues to be a bike-crazy gearhead. We spent spring break in Florida at my uncle's beach house.

One bowl of chicken broth. Very sick in June/July.

Three ( Read more... )

You know how when you get a call for jury duty and you show up and the judge sends everybody home ( Read more... )

At about this time every year, I alert my southern and southwestern and California friends that it's time to start their annual gloat ( Read more... )

This year, along with a bunch of other SFWA folks, I've been serving as a member of the Norton Award jury. ccfinlay, who is also on the jury, suggested that we post blog entries in order to raise awareness about the award and to urge SFWA members to recommend some good books ( Read more... )