Monthly Archives: May 2008
“Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded”: Available For Pre-order
Posted on May 15, 2008 34 Comments
I’m extremely pleased to announce that Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998 – 2008 is now available for pre-order straight from Subterranean Press. For those of you who don’t know, Hate Mail is a retrospective of the entire run of Whatever, all the way back to the hazy days of […]
The Big Idea: Jeri Smith-Ready
Posted on May 15, 2008 8 Comments
It’s a two-fer week for Big Ideas, and today we have Jeri Smith-Ready, who brings you: vampires! And not just any vampires. No, her vampires have better musical taste than you do, and in Jeri’s latest book Wicked Game, they’re not afraid to prove it. But how does exquisite taste in music combine with an […]
New AMC Movie Column Up
Posted on May 15, 2008
In this one, I talk about why the movie Speed Racer is totally doomed. Does the reason have something to do with Star Wars? Well, how could it not? Check it out, and if you want to comment, do so there. The AMC people were happy the last column got lots of interesting comments.
Zoe’s Tale ARC Contest: Get Your Entry In
Posted on May 15, 2008 3 Comments
You have until one second before midnight to get your entry in to win a Zoe’s Tale ARC, so, you know. Tick Tick Tick. All the details are here. I notice that lots of folks are turning in sort of epic entries, which is very cool, but I’ll note that longer doesn’t necessarily mean better. […]
Whateveresque Registration Open
Posted on May 15, 2008 3 Comments
For those of you with your noses smooged up against the windowpane of Whateveresque, the Whatever reader forum, wishing you could get in, good news! Registration is now open through 10 pm Eastern time. As always, help an administrator out in approving your membership request by choosing a member name that is recognizably NOT a […]
Either Napping or Prepping for a Monorail Cat Tryout
Posted on May 14, 2008 22 Comments
I’m guessing napping, myself.
A Choice Selection of YA Tidbits
Posted on May 14, 2008 37 Comments
SF Signal, following up on the various discussions on Young Adult SF/F, asks various members of the sf/f community to suggest YA books for adult readers. Interestingly, I and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, my editor at Tor, offered up the same suggestion, for largely the same reasons. It’s like we have similar tastes in books! And […]
An Easy Choice Considering How Much He Looks Like Emperor Palpatine
Posted on May 14, 2008 45 Comments
The Pope (via the Vatican’s head astronomer) says that believing that alien life could exist elsewhere does not conflict with the Catholic faith: The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life […]
Glorious, Gynoparadisiacal West Virginia
Posted on May 14, 2008 139 Comments
Poor, rural, working-class white folks in Appalachia didn’t vote for the rich urban former law professor senator from Chicago. They went for the rich urban former law professor senator born in Chicago instead. But since the vote went so overwhelmingly in one direction rather than the other, and rich urban former law professor senators with […]
Bad Girl Goodies
Posted on May 13, 2008 19 Comments
A while back I took a picture of Athena in one of her more glowery moods and Photoshopped it for my own amusement, and recently Krissy suggested that she’d like the resulting Photoshop on a t-shirt or mug. So I obliged her. Having now performed my uxorial duty, I’m now making the designs available to […]
Have You Had Some Bryan Ferry Today?
Posted on May 13, 2008 19 Comments
No? Hmmm. Let’s fix that. There. Don’t you feel better now?
The 44th President of the United States
Posted on May 13, 2008 66 Comments
Will almost certainly not be Bob Barr. Nor do I actually plan to vote for the man. Nevertheless, should he actually win the endorsement of the Libertarian Party later this month (as I understand is expected), I expect he’ll pop into the position of my “Backup Candidate,” i.e., the person I’ll vote for if Barack […]
The Big Idea: Melinda Snodgrass
Posted on May 13, 2008 25 Comments
One day Melinda Snodgrass started wondering about aircars and why we don’t have them yet. Most people would stop there, with maybe a brief side thought about themselves puttering around in the sky like George Jetson. Snodgrass, however, kept going with that thought and ended up with a book: The Edge of Reason, which is […]
Zoe’s Tale ARC: A Contest
Posted on May 12, 2008 289 Comments
Here you see Kodi with an ARC of Zoe’s Tale, guarding it with all the fierceness of Cerberus guarding the gates of Hades. Sure, you could try taking the ARC from her, but afterward, you would only be able to count to five on your fingers. I’m not trying to frighten you, I’m just letting […]
Because They Never Love You More Than When You’ve Fallen Down
Posted on May 12, 2008 12 Comments
James Frey’s latest book Bright Shiny Morning gets a rave in the New York Times. Wait until they find out that this novel is actually a memoir. More seriously, if Frey has come out of this whole experience as a better writer and a less grasping opportunist, well, then, good for him. Nice to see […]
Book Updatery, 5/12/08
Posted on May 12, 2008 18 Comments
A couple of things relating to books of mine: * I finished and delivered an updated manuscript for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998 – 2008 to Subterranean Press last night. See, I told you having a clean office makes me productive. There had been a previous version of the […]
Happy Mother’s Day
Posted on May 11, 2008 8 Comments
To everyone who is or has a mother. “Mother,” Anika Moa
My Birthday Present
Posted on May 11, 2008 23 Comments
Thanks everyone for your kind birthday wishes yesterday. You helped make it my best 39th birthday ever, and that’s not just something I say every year. Above you’ll see what my wife got me for my birthday: A clean office. As of about 10:29 yesterday morning, one literally could not walk into the office without […]
39
Posted on May 10, 2008 123 Comments
39 years old today. Now there’s but a single year separating me from middle age! I best get all my youthful indiscretions done before they look like a midlife crisis, then. Taking the day off from the Internets today. You youngins’ have fun without me. But before I go, here’s some thematically appropriate music for […]
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