February 2010

Blog: Restaurant Review: The Warehouse. http://foodie.deannaknippling.com/?p=2112 # Ouch, bad query day. Received 4 rejections: 12/16. # @MsAllieD And the day's not even over yet! in reply to MsAllieD # @ianthealy Oddly, your discouraging news makes me feel better. Thank you 🙂 in reply to ianthealy # Blog: Chicken fail, sort of: Pan-roasted chicken w/ olives. […]

by Cherie Priest. Talk about the right book at the right time:  a steampunk adventure with zombies.  There will never be a better time for this book.  Never.  All she had to do was make sure she wrote the book well enough not to shoot herself in the foot.  And it’s Cherie Priest, so you

We went to Physics Day at Ray’s school last Wednesday (I’m so lazy, I didn’t get the pictures downloaded until today). Everyone at the Dirt Cake table.  What dirt cake has to do with physics, I’ll never know. What?  You don’t know the recipe? Here’s Ray outside the star demonstration balloon, which we saw together

by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele. You know how people play MMORPGs too much? What if the whole world were like that, people playing their lives via android? Hm…there’s really only one way to go from there:  somebody decides it’s a bad idea and starts taking that away from other people, because, you know, it’s

by Gail Simone, Terry Dodson, and Bernard Chang. I’m not sure where in the timeline this belongs. But I liked it:  The first part is a Greek tragedy, with the characters’ personalities so strong, so fully developed, so inevitable, that the end has its own dignity and grace.  The second part is funnier but less

From April 23-25. I don’t know much about writer’s conferences; I’ve only been to this one.  Nevertheless, I get the impression that good things are happening. One, I’ve worn more off the edges of Am-I-Really-A-Writer panic at this conference (and getting ready for this conference) than anywhere else, except for actually selling stuff.  Shit yeah,

Book 3 of the Long Price Quartet, by Daniel Abraham. Sometimes it’s good to have faith in people. Take, for example, the third book in the Long Price Quartet.  This is a fantasy epic (ha ha, try to deny it) with a hero (ditto).  There’s lots of magic (actually, there’s not much magic, page by

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:  anybody interested in making money freelancing (not just freelance writing) should read this guide, especially the Money and Negotiation sections. She’s still updating it, so keep checking back for updates. Her husband is Dean Wesley Smith, and he has good posts on

Late, late, later. I’m working on a project to re-read all of Steven Brust’s Vlad books this year, to try to work out what’s going to happen next, or at least to understand some of the deeper currents I picked up from reading Iorich.  I’m reading them in publication order.  Don’t read these posts if

@MsAllieD Oh, yeah? ME AND MY COUSINS AND YOU AND YOUR COUSINS, IT'S A LINE THAT'S ALWAYS RUNNING! Earworm that, you. in reply to MsAllieD # @MsAllieD I throw down "Banana Man." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoGuoXuLmsk in reply to MsAllieD # I got stuck yesterday. Then I hung out with Lee while he was playing WoW and things