Daily Archives: September 9, 2011
What We’re Doing With Our Weekend
Posted on September 9, 2011 62 Comments
This is (less than half) of our basement, with about ten years of Stuff We Don’t Use Anymore in it (the other half is similarly full). We’re clearing it out this weekend. We’re dividing it up into Things We’ll Keep (not a lot), Things We’ll Donate (somewhat more), and Things We’ll Throw Away. For the […]
This is What a Nice Guy I Am
Posted on September 9, 2011 54 Comments
I was going to mention the fact that I printed up some personal galleys of Redshirts, to give to my wife and in-laws and maybe might have an extra copy that I will at some point in the reasonably near future auction off for charity, although not yet because I have to figure out which […]
The Big Idea: Alma Katsu
Posted on September 9, 2011 5 Comments
Inspiration comes from anywhere… and sometimes that inspiration is not directly obvious even to the author. When Alma Katsu set down to write The Taker, she discovered in the process that a classic bit of literature was informing the story that she was building on the pages. What classic? The surprising answer awaits you. ALMA […]
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