OK…. so, I’m sitting here trying to work up enthusiasm about financial paperwork when I hear a disturbance in the water through the hull. Sounds like a small electric trolling motor with a bad prop setting up cavitation. Then I hear a bump against the submerged hull away from the dock followed by another [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Things that go “bump” in the water
Posted in Personal blither on February 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Given his due, but unduly
Posted in Personal blither on February 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I don’t watch TV and I go out of my way to avoid the Oscars, but I’m given to understand that Martin Scorsese won Best Director for his remake of Infernal Affairs, which also won Best Picture. It’s fairly obvious to me that this was a guilt trip prize since Scorsese–who is genuinely talented [...]
Historyfish!
Posted in Cool writerly people on February 26, 2007 | Comments Off
My long-time friend Richenda has finally got the kinks out of her own site: historyfish.net. Not a lot there, yet, but it’s a neat design and an interesting idea for talking about history and writing–two of Ric’s huge interests. Check out the blog–”Clear Blue–and comment, if you like. Ric decided to dump [...]
Me at Long Ridge Writers Group
Posted in Personal blither, Writing on February 22, 2007 | Comments Off
Mary Rosenblum asked me to talk to the Long Ridge Writers Group online about writing. Golly, I sure can blather….
Mysteries Don’t Get No Respect
Posted in Cool writerly people, Writing on February 21, 2007 | Comments Off
Jeri Westerson is up to good things at her blog, Getting Medieval, with an interesting little piece called Mysteries Don’t Get No Respect. I think we’ve all had this experience by now. Don’t it just suck?
Chinese cometh
Posted in Stuff about the book(s) on February 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Hehe… I’m a big goofy thing, I know, but I’m all excited by the news that the Complex/Traditional Chinese translation of Greywalker is now done will be published this May. Spring International, the Taiwan-based publisher, will be doing new covers and they’ve asked me, through my Taiwan agent, Gray Tan, to write a special [...]
You’re Out!
Posted in Stuff about the book(s) on February 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Amazon has run out of my book. Of course, they don’t tell people that, they just stop taking orders for new books with no explanation. But Greywalker is still available at Barnes & Noble.com and, of course, at regular bookstores.
I wonder if this means the current printings are selling out. The first [...]
DICTIONSCARY
Posted in Just Plain Weird on February 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You guys probably already know how much I like weird words. Well… here’s someone who likes ‘em even more than I do, I think. I present Arnzen’s Goreletter Dictionscary. I was just trying to find a reasonable definition of “squeg” and I not only found it here, I found another word I [...]
Damn, that’s good!
Posted in Book reviews news and 'zines, Cool writerly people on February 8, 2007 | Comments Off
I just started in on reading my friend Sean Chercover’s first novel, Big City, Bad Blood. OMG! Sean has exceeded all my expectations (and they were pretty high.) This is one excellent PI novel! Better than John D. MacDonald or Loren Estleman and quite likely to give my beloved James Crumley [...]
Post-stress Drip
Posted in Personal blither on February 5, 2007 | Comments Off
The convention went pretty well, though I spent most of it in a state of emergency, chasing after stuff and putting out fires. Still, people enjoyed themselves and I made a lot of friends and had fun in between the dashes. Saturday I skipped out of the banquet at which my RAM-friend Donna [...]
