Apparently a crack Weasel Squad on Standby for Greek Mission may have made the tiny island of Lemnos safe for mankind–or not–but certainly unsafe for rampaging rabbits. Couldn’t find out if the German Weasels ever landed, though. Still, it’s amusing. See: ferret-relatives are good for farmers! Take that, California Agribusiness!
Archive for March, 2007
Weasel Squad!
Posted in Just Plain Weird, Personal blither on March 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Sprechen Sie “Vertrag”?
Posted in Stuff about the book(s) on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(Do you speak “contract”?)
The replacement copies of the German contracts arrived yesterday and went back out today. I was pleased to note that no changes were made to dates or details, so the translation is still on a 24-month deadline from August 31 2006. I breathe a sigh of relief and hope that [...]
Newbie Author Tip #1–buy the book
Posted in Stuff about the book(s), Writers Hints and Tips, Writing on March 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
(or Things I Wish They’d Told Me Earlier)
Once you have a book in print (assuming it is in print from a regular publisher and not a self-published or subsidy published job), buy a case of your own book. But do not buy it directly from your publisher at the “author” discount. Instead, [...]
Polar bear cuteness!
Posted in Personal blither, Unbearable cuteness on March 24, 2007 | Comments Off
A friend (thanks Dave!) sent me the link to this slide show of the Berlin zoo’s baby Knute. I hate to be a big, gushy girl about this, but he is sooooo cute. Apparently mama bear abandoned Knute after he was born at the zoo and he’s been raised principally by his keeper.
I [...]
All the job
Posted in Stuff about the book(s) on March 17, 2007 | Comments Off
To quote my favorite critter in Warcraft: “Job’s done! hr hr hr!” The corrected Poltergeist galley proofs went into the mail this afternoon, haeaded back to New York. It’s now, officially, out of my hands. Bye-bye, proof! (hurray!)
And now… onto Underground City….
So a Writer Walks Into a Bar…
Posted in Cool writerly people, Writing on March 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Welcome to a Crimespace blog article in which the lovely and talented Cornelia Read tells jokes about writers. This woman is so evil. I’m in love and totally embarrassed to realize I met her at Bouchercon with Jeri Westerson and had forgotten who she was by the time we met again at LCC [...]
Romanian
Posted in Stuff about the book(s) on March 14, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Received an offer through my agent today for Romanian translation rights to Greywalker. Kind of odd, but I’m not stupid; I said “yes.” I’m perversely amused that various language rights requests come trickling in from unexpected places while we’re still unable to crack the UK. Still, with the Chinese version coming out [...]
Half the job
Posted in Conventions and signings, Cool writerly people, Stuff about the book(s) on March 13, 2007 | Comments Off
I’m half-way through with the final proofs on Poltergeist. I don’t feel so enthusiastic about the whole thing at the moment as I did a few months ago, so it seems odd to be expending such fine-grained attention on this, but I suppose that no matter what may develop out of the uncertain weirdness [...]
Octopus Eats Ferret!
Posted in Just Plain Weird on March 12, 2007 | Comments Off
Well… no, not really. This is pretty cheesy, but I think it’s funny. Ferret in Octopus: 1.2MB Quicktime or 2.9MB Mpeg. Thus do we amuse ourselves at our pets’ expense….
Something fishy….
Posted in Cool writerly people, Just Plain Weird on March 10, 2007 | Comments Off
OK, you have to go look at Cherie Priest’s fish. No, really. See… Cherie has this fish and he’s in the bowl and… oh just go look: Nervous Betta. No wonder Howard’s nervous!
