Archive for December, 2007
Post-Holiday Fallout
Friday, December 28th, 2007Okay… next year, I’m going to take more time off for Christmas. I’d love to get the whole week, but it’s hard to say how it’s all going to work out. This year was just way too hectic for us, especially with the two kids. I’m sure they’ll be more of a handful next year, [...]
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and a belated but heartfelt Happy Solstice and Happy Hanukkah to all so inclined. And also an early Happy Boxing Day, Happy New Year’s, Happy Birthday to my wife, Happy Valentine’s Day, Happy Chinese New Year, Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and Hooray for the Vernal Equinox, just to be [...]
Weekend Update
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007A few notable things. First is that Anthology Builder is hosting my one published short story, “Refuge” is available there. Not that you should go there just for that–there’s tons of good fiction there, and all of it deserves a second look. I’m also liking this, incidentally, because it means when I do buy an [...]
Is It… Is It Over?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007One of the toughest things about being a parent is the kids’ illnesses. On the one hand, it’s simply scary half the time. A couple weeks ago, my son came down with this thing where he would just throw up over and over. Apparently it’s something that’s been going around, all the kids got it, [...]
Anthology Builder
Friday, December 14th, 2007Nancy Fulda, who I know through the Codex Writers, has come up with one of the coolest ideas for the future of short fiction: Anthology Builder. The idea? Authors submit stories there–reprints, all–and readers can go there and pick up stories ala carte and build their own hardcopy anthology. I think the anthology idea is [...]
A Further Thought
Sunday, December 9th, 2007When one publishes something, for better or worse, they are putting it out there, placing it on display, making it public; that is, after all, the core of the word. The creator, as much control as he or she had of it up to that point, no longer controls the work to a nontrivial degree. [...]
Awesomeness
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007I have loved the show Life since it first came on. Part of it is that I think Damien Lewis is a fantastic actor and want only the best for him. Part of it is that it’s just a great show. Even more awesome? Tonight’s episode just featured Leonard Cohen singing “Who By Fire” Totally [...]
The Information Must Be Free
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007One of the coolest things about the internet is its scalability. Want to visit a tiny, two-page site? And then a massive megaplex of a site? To me, the reader, there’s not much difference. They don’t take up more or less space, other than perhaps in my disk cache, but I’ve got so damn much [...]
Why Bother?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007I have two friends who have been, over the past six or seven years, been role models of one kind or another in the writing life: Charlie Finlay and Tobias Buckell. I met Charlie on the Lois Bujold Mailing List, way back in the day, and he introduced me to Toby a few years later [...]