Wired regularly posts a “this day in technology” item. Today’s caught my eye: apparently, it was on this day in 1888 that the first known musical recording was made–Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt: Israel in Egypt, assigned the catalog number HWV 54, is an oratorio, a form in which Handel excelled. Like his more famous …
Dark Wisdom: The Magazine of Dark Fiction, Issue 11, is “now at the printer” and includes a short story by me entitled “The Wind.” I’m pleased but somewhat surprised by this development, since I emailed the magazine a couple of times trying to find out the status of the story: it was accepted, but the …
…snapped by high school students from the ground.
Well, well, look at this: my new novel from DAW Books, Marseguro, is listed on Amazon.com, which means you can pre-order it already, even though it’s not due out until February: Cool! Buy now and avoid the rush!
Oh, this is yummy: a gallery of cover art from Astounding/Analog, going back to 1930 (that’s the cover from April, 1930, to the left). (Via SF Signal.)
…and you can read it here.
Here I am in all my glory as the Widow Simone in Class Act Studio‘s upcoming production of the comic ballet La Fille mal Gardée: Perhaps I should ask that this be used as my photo on book covers from now on…?
I don’t hate Star Wars enough.
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 …
…it may also (both red and white) combat tooth-decay and upper-respiratory-tract-infection bacteria.
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, …
Finishing novel revision–due at DAW tomorrow. Going to jazz concerts. Rehearsing ballet. Driving back and forth to Saskatoon. More soon!
