March 2010

The "Obamacare is from SATAN" people are cheesing me off. Hello? I hope you got paid to go against your own best interests there. # Don't like it? Fix it. But don't take away the chance of writers being able to GET insurance. # Done writing for the night! Almost done with the first draft […]

That is, the type of entertainment you turn to in times of trouble?  The Bible actually works with this (the New Testament, anyway), so pick something else. I have predictions about what type of story you’ll pick.

Blog: No more recipes for a while… http://foodie.deannaknippling.com/?p=2165 # Repo! vs Repo Men. http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58903 # Lee says it's almost grilling season. Yay! # Almost done with the writing slog for tonight. Come on…just one more grotesque death. You can do it…you can do it… # @ianthealy I am ALWAYS open for suggestions of grotesque death.

Evil! RT @FakeAPStylebook Remember: "its" means "it is" and "it's" is the possessive form of "it." # Groooan. RT @ChuckWendig Yes, grass-fed ribyes. Come to me. Come to this hot pan over here. MOO HOO HA HA HA. # Yes (female) – Mom. @mightymur Question to male authors: IF you swear in your novels, do

C11.  Laris owns the flats where the riots occurred.  Vlad hires Sticks, who has connections with local musicians.  Flats previously owned by Baritt.  Baritt had been assassinated. C12.  Cawti reacts to the riot:  “He’s using our people.  That’s us, Easterners, being set up to be beaten and killed…”  Vlad:  “I hate them…I started ‘working’ so

C4.  Description of Adrilankha, noted as the town where Kieron met with the Shamans and made a stand.  “…but Kieron won the battle anyway, thus securing the foundations of an Empire of Dragaerans.  Shame about that.”  Vlad determines to build a spy network, if he gets out of this.  Vlad meets with Morrolan and corrects

I think if you fined me a nickel every time I spelled “Steven Brust” as “Stephen Brust” I’d probably be a poor, poor woman.  Cripes. Yendi is the book that starts out with the onion metaphor. Kragar says that life is like an onion, but he doesn’t mean the same thing by it that I

by David Morrell. This is the original Rambo novel, which a writer buddy loaned me quite a few months back, and which I am just now reaching on my to-read list. I never would have picked this up on my own.  Never. I’m very glad I read it.  It’s not just the story of Rambo,

by Terry Pratchett. I liked Nation, but in a distant, pastel kind of way.  I liked Unseen Academicals much better. One.  Hey!  It’s not just a romance, and a competently written double romance, with four interesting main characters.  This, I might note, is not easy to write, and Terry Pratchett handles it with the facility

by John Scalzi. This book is a pleasant ripoff of Heinlein, with better humor, better writing, better plotting, and a better touch of the perversely funny. Not as touching or moving as Heinlein at the top of his game; no Fridays or Jubals or glorious star-named twins.  But good. Also, check out this opening: I