Yesterday I submitted two novel proposals to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg (well, three, actually, but only two were new). One is for a sequel to my upcoming novel Marseguro, tentatively titled Terra Inseguro, and one is for a fantasy novel tentatively titled Magebane. (The third is for a sequel to Lost in Translation, which DAW …
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The Heinlein Centennial…
…is upon us! The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein takes place in Kansas City this weekend. You can find out all about it here. It’s certainly got an impressive guest list: NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin Spider Robinson, co-author (with Robert Heinlein) of Variable Star and much more …
Dragons and turkeys and midgets, oh my!
This week’s CBC Web column… ******* Did you hear about the 42 members of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League mauled in a match against an African lion? How about the mummified fairy discovered in Derbyshire? Or, closer to home, did you know the world’s last surviving scientist specializing in the study of dragons lives in …
Sorry, Mom and Dad
“If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.(Via Ficlets Blog.)
Happy Independence Day!
“And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there…”* Happy July 4 to all my American friends, readers and family! (OK, technically this photo was taken on Canada Day, not July 4, but fireworks is fireworks, and you couldn’t ask for a better …
Living in Three Centuries
Check out this beautiful and amazing collection of black-and-white photographs by Mark Story of people who have lived more than 100 years. (Via Drawn.)
All Sawyers look alike
Reports the San Francisco Sentinel: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pledges a quick replacement for California green czar Robert Sawyer whom the governor fired this week. The photo accompanying the story? A picture of Robert J. Sawyer, noted Canadian science fiction writer. Oops!
Another reason to never even try a cigarette:
Apparently inhaling a single cigarette can be enough to trigger nicotine addiction: A new study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine shows that 10 percent of youth who become hooked on cigarettes are addicted within two days of first inhaling from a cigarette, and 25 percent are addicted within a month. The …
Photo of the Day: Framed
More photos here.
Sermons from my father
When I posted my eulogy for my father, James Lee Willett, for Father’s Day, I neglected to provide one important link: many of Dad’s sermons are online as MP3 files. You can download them here. My previous post reminded me!
The Quraneyeens
The Big Pharaoh, an Egyptian blogger, writes about the arrest and imprisonment of members of a group I’d never heard of before: The Quraneyeens. Here’s his explanation of what they believe: They’re Muslims who believe in the Quran, and only the Quran. In traditional Sunni Islam, religious jurispudence and law are mainly derived from two …
Sleep now, or forever hold your Zzzzzs
Are you getting enough sleep? Probably not: the average North American sleeps an hour less per night than was common 40 years ago. Ordinarily, if we fail to get enough sleep one night, our body attempts to make up for it during the next night by sleeping longer and/or sleeping more deeply. Since alarm clocks …
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