As previously announced, I’ve sold a second novel to DAW Books on the basis of a synopsis. The subsequent signed contract indicates that this novel will be 100,000 words, and that it is due on December 20. This being the case, I thought it best to perhaps begin writing. Which I have done, as of …
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The software orchestra…
…is coming. Will it replace human musicians? Not yet. But it will be a boon for composers who want to hear what their orchestral arrangement sounds like without having to hire an orchestra. And it just might be a boon for organizations like Regina Lyric Light Opera, whose largest single expense of staging a musical …
The outermost planet in the solar system…
…is now Neptune.
Photo of the Weekend III: At Home on the Range
More photos here.
Happy birthday!
Science fiction great Ray Bradbury is 86 today.
Lassie, call your lawyer!
First it was dolphins, now dogs: Chimpanzees and two-year-old children are as clever as each other but dogs are not as smart as previously thought, according to a University of Queensland study.
Manure: making ethanol efficient!
Last week Husky Energy Inc. announced that its ethanol plant in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, will be producing within weeks and should reach peak production by the end of the year. Ethanol, a.k.a. ethyl alcohol, is a renewable fuel source distilled from biomass—typically wheat, sugar, corn or soybeans. It can be blended with gasoline to reduce the …
Photo of the Weekend II: The Flower Girl
I’ve got lots of photos from this past weekend in southwestern Saskatchewan and the weekend (and week before) in Calgary–so many I’m going to forego the Photo of the Day for a while and post some of my recent favorites. Like this one, of my daughter Alice. More photos here.
"Darn you to heck, Edward Willett, darn you to heck!"
So begins this post from Janet, blogger, SF fan and former Regina resident,at The Walrus Said. My crime? Posting the prologue and first chapter of my SF novel Lost in Translation online where anyone can read it. Apparently the book is neither in the Ottawa library system nor in the local Chapters (which goes a …
Kathy Tyers, Karen Hancock, and me
Karen Hanock at Writing From the Edge does a nice roundup of the “good old days” when she, Kathy Tyers and myself exchanged and critiqued manuscripts regularly–and wrote long letters to each other (the kind you had to print on paper and put in a stamped envelope, too). It’s part of the August SF/F Blog …
Photo of the Weekend: Ye Olde Beaver Pond
Southwestern Saskatchewan, somewhere south of Glentworth, where I spent the weekend attending my niece’s outdoor wedding (just down the coulee from this old beaver pond). Hence no blogging for the last few days. More photos here.
A new blog to check out…
…is that of award-winning Christian fantasy writer Karen Hancock. Karen and I have corresponded and critiqued each other’s stuff for years–not so much recently, because we’re both pretty well-published at this point, but very regularly when we were both starting out. I just discovered her blog because she linked to my post about unreal science …
My latest live walk and vlog
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