forgot to record the fact that I received Mending the Moon by Susan Palwick (TOR) last Thursday or Friday. According to the accompanying press release, the book comes out on May 14.
ne of the benefits I’ve found of going paperless is that it becomes much easier to automate things when the data in question is in digital form and not scribbled on a yellow notepad sitting on your desk. Since I am entirely paperless now, except that paper that comes in over which I have no…
don’t know about you, but I can’t believe that it is already Sunday evening, the weekend is mostly over, and it all starts over again tomorrow. It has been a busy weekend for me. It started Friday night, when I watched the kids while Kelly had a much-deserved girls night out. Saturday is mostly a…
or those who might be interested, there is a fantastic interview with Joe Hill and Owen King over at Vulture.com. In it, the brothers talk about writing and their books, but they also talk about life with their iconic father, Stephen King, and it makes for a fascinating read. And, P.S., I’ve got Joe Hill’s…
f someone asked me today what my absolute favorite book, regardless of category, author or any other discriminator, I would say without hesitation that my favorite book is It by Stephen King. On my morning walk, I finished reading it for the third time. I remember really liking it the first time I read it, loving…
hree recent experiences remind me that automation for the sake of automation doesn’t really do much. But if automation can be used to improve processes, eliminate repetition, and redundancy, then it is well worth investing the time to improve the automation. It is a personal pet peeve of mine whenever I have to supply the…
t has been a little over 2 months since I put in place automated processes for capturing data about my daily writing, blogging and reading. And given that I have reading, written, and blogged nearly every day for the last two months, it seems like a good time to share some of the numbers with…
ne of the sets of questions I get asked with a fair amount of regularity has to do with what settings I use to scan documents into Evernote. Do I prefer PDF or JPG? What resolution do I use? Do I prefer one page per note or a multi-page scan? So I thought I’d use…
was home with the Little Man yesterday and so I had a little more time than usual to get in some writing. Turned out to be a record-setting day for me–at least for the 65 days that I’ve been keeping automated records: I managed to write nearly 3,200 words of fiction yesterday, which, as…
he mailman arrived today with this book, Tunnel out of Death by Jamil Nasir (TOR Books). Looks like the book is scheduled for release in early May: