hen I went paperless–now going on more than two years ago–I tried to go pretty much wholesale. There were the occasional pieces of paper I had to handle, but mostly I tried to do everything that I used to do on paper in digital form. The trickiest thing for me, back then, was converting my…
was very excited to find this one in the mail today from TOR. I can recall, decades ago, reading Steven Gould’s Jumper while home on a break from school. I think I read the book in a single sitting. It just ate me up and I loved it. So it will be really nice to revisit…
t is rainy and warm here in the Northern Virginia/Metro DC area this morning. I suppose “warm” is a relative term. It was about 60 when I left for the office. Tomorrow, there might be snow, so this kind of thing is ephemeral, to say the least. I don’t have much time this morning, so here…
ast night, around 2am, I couldn’t sleep. It was my ribs again. The cough that I’ve had since before Christmas finally seems to be waning, but the damage is done. My right ribs and the soft matter just beneath them feel shredded. The slightest pressure irritates them. I’ve taking to sleeping on my left side,…
n aspiring writer typically divides their rejection letters into two categories: (1) form letter rejections, those rejections that are completely impersonal, but don’t really provide any feedback on the quality of the story, other than the fact that it has been rejected from the market where it was sent; and (2) the elusive “personal” rejection,…
or the last two weeks, I’ve been in withdrawals because the wonderful “Great Stephen King Reread” that Grady Hendrix is doing over at Tor.com was on vacation. But it was back yesterday, covering Stephen King’s first collection of novellas, Different Seasons. And it was as good as ever. I love this series. Hendrix writes in detail…