Yay! At approximately 2:30 a.m. I finished and sent off the revised version of my new novel, Marseguro. I don’t expect to see it again until page proofs. My editor at DAW, Sheila Gilbert, responded by sending my the cover art, but I’m not sure if I can post that here, yet, so I’ll hold …
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Wine’s not just good for your heart…
…it may also (both red and white) combat tooth-decay and upper-respiratory-tract-infection bacteria.
Pottery (nothing to do with Harry)
I majored in journalism in university but I minored in art. (Well, actually I minored in Dungeons and Dragons, but the university refused to give me credit for it. Go figure.) Of all my art classes, my favorite was pottery. I loved making pots, but as a certain hideously ugly four-kilogram cream pitcher can attest, …
Apologies for light blogging
Finishing novel revision–due at DAW tomorrow. Going to jazz concerts. Rehearsing ballet. Driving back and forth to Saskatoon. More soon!
Photo of the Day: Thundercloud
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Firstborn children are the cleverest
I’m the youngest of three boys. I’ve sent this story to my oldest brother in the hope he might be able to explain it to me.
From Babel Fish to Woohoo!
Today’s Web column for CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition… ********* If you’ve ever watched Star Trek, you’ve heard of the Universal Translator. The Universal Translator is a computer device that is able to instantly translate almost any alien language, no matter how bizarre, into American English. Of course, the Universal Translator doesn’t exist…yet. But all over …
Photo of the Day: Planetary Disk Drive
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Laurey is now Aunt Eller
This caught my eye, since I just played Jud in Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Oklahoma!: Oscar-winner Shirley Jones will be featured in the Pittsburgh CLO’s upcoming staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma!, according to the theatre’s website. Oklahoma! runs through July 1st. Jones, who famously played Laurey in the 1955 film …
Isaac Newton: man of science…
…man of faith. In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.“It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner,” Newton wrote. However, he added, “This I …
Justine Larbalestier on beginning writers
A follow-up to John Scalzi’s comments on teen writers from Justine Larbalestier, who some time ago wrote her own piece called “Too Young to Publish.” She writes: Neither Scalzi nor I have any interest in stopping teenagers from writing. Au contraire. We both wrote then and got a hell of a lot out of it, …
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