Fiction therapy
Last night I went grocery shopping, then stopped by my local bookstore. (Books Inc, in downtown Mountain View.) There were...
Moody
Grumpy. Irritable. Snappish. Defensive. Annoyed. Put-upon. Frustrated. Tense. Yup, it's official: I got me a serious case of the mullygrubs....
SH fund drive, week 2
In the first week of the Strange Horizons fund drive, we've received over $1400 in donations; almost a quarter of...
Weather delays etc
Got to the airport on schedule Sunday afternoon, checked in, got my seat assignment. The first sign of trouble was...
Clarification and update
I was posting my previous entry from my iPhone and wanted to get to sleep so didn't go into enough...
Locked out
You know what sucks? Getting back to your hotel room at 5 am only to find that your keycard no...
To veep or not to veep
It's possible that I'm being ridiculously naive, but it seems to me that the press is overinterpreting whatever Clinton says...
Mail and travel don’t mix
One thing I hate is when I arrive at my destination, and I sit down to do a quick email...
The magic frog-hair
When I was a kid, sometimes we would use a wooden match to light a fire or a candle or...
Strange Horizons fund drive 2008
It's time for this year's Strange Horizons fund drive. Susan has posted a couple of entries about it on the...
Submission update
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 1 April 2008; if you or anyone...
Women in Horror
I just happened across a site called Pretty/Scary: "For Women in Horror, By Women in Horror." I'm not into horror...