Monthly Archives: December 2007
Your Last Cat Pic of 2007
Posted on December 31, 2007 49 Comments
Because I know there would be a riot if there wasn’t one.
And Now, The “After” Photo
Posted on December 31, 2007 58 Comments
Oh, yes. Krissy has been here. Her comment: “Make sure you post a picture of how it looks now.” Done. Have I mentioned my wife is made of awesome? Well, she is.
A Month of Writers 2007: An Index
Posted on December 31, 2007 9 Comments
In case you missed some part of A Month of Writers and want to catch up, or just want to have a handy list, here’s all the Month of Writers participants in one place. Please read them and buy all their books. Steven Brust Charles Stross Susie Bright Christopher Barzak Pamela Ribon Jeff VanderMeer Brandon […]
Like Watching the Odometer Roll Over
Posted on December 30, 2007 32 Comments
As of 9pm tonight, there have been exactly 8,990,000 unique visits to this site this year, which was an awfully round number, so I took a screenshot. It also means that unless the site fails to garner an additional 10k unique visits between now and 11:59:59pm tomorrow (which it should; it’s averaging rather more than […]
Probably the Worst It’s Been
Posted on December 30, 2007 41 Comments
My office, 12/30/07: This is, alas, an all-too-accurate metaphor for what my brain has been like for most of 2007. Hopefully, 2008 will be a bit neater.
On the Slate, 2008
Posted on December 30, 2007 19 Comments
In order to facilitate you in your acquisition of ScalziProduct™, here’s a handy list of things I know are coming out from me, and being written by me, in 2008. Stuff I Know is Coming Out in 2008 1. The Rough Guide to the Universe, Second Edition — This hits either in March or May. […]
A Month of Writers, Day Twenty Four: Tim Pratt
Posted on December 30, 2007 7 Comments
Quite unintentionally, it turns out that I’m the guy who told Tim Pratt that he won a Hugo this year: After the list of Hugo Winners was posted, and Tim’s “Impossible Dreams” nabbed the short story award, I sent him a quick little congratulatory e-mail. His response a short time later was, essentially, “I did […]
How Romantic
Posted on December 29, 2007 11 Comments
Hey, this is nice: I’m nominated for a Romantic Times 2007 Reviewers’ Choice Award in the science fiction category, for The Last Colony. The nominees are chosen for their general excellence, not necessarily their romantic content, which is good, because I’m not notably good with romance. The other nominees in the category: Spindrift, by Allen […]
Sunsets, 2007
Posted on December 29, 2007 19 Comments
A sampling of the year’s sunsets for you. And one sunrise:
Minor Housekeepery, 12/29/07
Posted on December 29, 2007 4 Comments
For those of you who live to obsessively follow the tweaks I give the Whatever, you’ll note that I’ve changed the sidebars in the following ways: I’ve deleted the RSS feeds for By The Way and Ficlets Blog, because after two days from now I’ll not be updating there anymore; I’ve reinserted the site colophon […]
A Month of Writers, Day Twenty Three: Justine Larbalestier
Posted on December 29, 2007 16 Comments
Yay! Justine Larbalestier is here! She’s one of my favorite people, you know. And she’s also an excellent writer, with her “Magic or Madness” trilogy, of which the latest installment, Magic’s Child, is featured above, racking up all sorts of awards, honors, and “best of” list appearances. Honestly, if I detailed how cool she is, […]
And Onward to 2009
Posted on December 28, 2007 11 Comments
For those of you who like to mark your calendars early, I’ll note I’ll be the 2009 Guest of Honor at Millennicon, just down the road in Cincinnati. Please note the year there: 2009, not 2008 (2008’s Guest of Honor is Steven Barnes, who, you know, you should go see, too). Wow, 2009. I feel […]
A Month of Writers, Day Twenty Two: David Anthony Durham
Posted on December 28, 2007 2 Comments
I’m about to go off and drive 180 miles, so I can’t make this long. So here’s everything you need to know: David Anthony Durham: teh HAWSOME. Acacia, Book One: The War With the Mein, his debut fantasy novel: also teh HAWSOME. Campbell Award possibilities? It would be — yes! — teh HAWSOME. And now, […]
Five Years On
Posted on December 28, 2007 29 Comments
Did you know (and before you say “yes,” I should warn you that the answer here will almost certainly be “no,” so don’t try to be all cool about it) that today marks the fifth anniversary of what I consider my official entrance into science fiction? No? Huh. Surprising. Well, it is. Five years ago […]
Another Thing I Do You Probably Don’t
Posted on December 27, 2007 54 Comments
Pay some dude to re-gravel my driveway. It’s a two-load gig, by the way. Yes, long driveway.
Why We’re All Going to Hell, Part 54,302
Posted on December 27, 2007 58 Comments
A multi-billionaire industrialist donates 97% of his fortune to help fund clean water in Africa, education for blind children, and housing for the mentally ill, and it’s presented by one of the largest news organizations in the world in terms of what it means for Paris Hilton.
A Month of Writers, Day Twenty One: Ellen Kushner
Posted on December 27, 2007 10 Comments
You know, I’m not entirely sure when it was I first met Ellen Kushner — I suspect it may have been Wiscon three years ago, but maybe it was before then — but whenever it was that I met her, she quickly became someone I liked and admired, because she’s warm, personable, a great conversationalist […]
“The ‘It’ Couple of Young-Adult Lit”
Posted on December 26, 2007 6 Comments
Look at this: The Village Voice has a big, gushy article about my pals Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld, talking about how cool they are and how everyone loves them and how they smell nice and everything. Well, it’s all true. Remember, kids: Scott and Justine are the Guests of Honor at this year’s ConFusion […]
The Pity Stuffer
Posted on December 26, 2007 11 Comments
Today I went out and partook in my tradition of picking up the latest edition of the Writer’s Market and carrying its phonebook-sized mass home with me and parking it on my desk. I’ve been doing this more or less every year since I became a full-time freelancer, in 1998; in no time since then […]
The Final Ficlets Big Idea, Plus ’07 Big Idea/Author Interview Index
Posted on December 26, 2007 2 Comments
Today I posted the final “Big Idea” entry I’ll have over at Ficlets, and it’s from Nathalie Mallet, the author whom Night Shade Books had debut its mass market paperback line with the fantasy/mystery novel, The Princes of the Golden Cage. Kind of cool to debut an entire new line of books, I’d say. Well […]
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