Bits of yesterday
Kendra tells me that LDS (the Mormon church) is growing fast; 40%+ (per year? I forget). Why do people convert,...
Author Archive
Parker on meth
Wil McCarthy has a cute article on "The Physics of Spider-Man" at SF Weekly. He discusses super-strength, wall-crawling, web-swinging, and...
Relative merits
One more thing about last night: I thought it was interesting that three or four people congratulated me on SH...
Missing the reading
Eileen Gunn let me know the other day that Nicola Griffith was going to be reading from her new novel...
Nominees and paper magazines
Odd. SF Book.com posted a list of Hugo nominees, and editorialized about the Best Web Site category that the nominees...
Suddenly social
I've had two phone calls in the past ten minutes, and it begins to appear that I have social plans...
Another volley in the Ellison case
(Note: I changed this entry significantly about ten minutes after initial posting, after further consideration of what I'd said.) Philip...
Short-short
When I was at Clarion West, far back in the ancient mythical past, at one point we had one of...
Chat tomorrow: Ellen and Terri
SCI FICTION chat tomorrow night (Wednesday, May 8; 6:00 p.m. Pacific time, 9:00 p.m. Eastern time). Ellen Datlow and Terri...
Productive
Have spent pretty much all day sitting in front of my computer. Story edits, reading submissions, writing rejections, sending revision...
Potter didn’t boost sales
According to this article in the Observer, the Harry Potter books didn't boost sales of other kids' books after all....
Classmates
I can't remember when I signed up for classmates.com—it must've been quite a while ago. Ever since then, they've been...