Apotheosis Trilogy
Not Quite
But I still managed about 2500 words a day, which is pretty respectable output when I’m not under the whip of my muse. When you subtract the two days where I had an output of approximately nil (one celebrating X-mas with my Mom, the other X-mas with the in-laws), I Read more…
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My obsolescence, let me show you it
Instead of waxing poetic about all the really cool things I got for x-mas, I thought I’d collect all the stuff sitting in my office that used to be really cool. Remember, eventually that iPhone’s going to join this little montage: We got here on top, the Ultimate Doom, which Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
25%
Well I’ve hit the first landmark in the Apotheosis Trilogy I’ve felt worth posting about. I have reached the quarter mark on the trilogy as a whole. Word-count subject to change, as I’ve assumed that book #1 is going to be a little longer than the next two. Speaking of Read more…
microsoft
Microsoft, the Beast That Cannot be Fed
You may have heard of the non-profit initiative called “One Laptop Per Child.” It is essentially an attempt to bridge the technology divide between the technological west and the developing world. OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with the goal of producing a laptop as cheaply as possible and provide Read more…
blatant self-promotion
Successfully Clawing My Way Up From the Bottom of the Midlist
At least that’s how it’s looking. With help from my kick-ass agent, Eleanor, I’ve sold Wolfbreed and a subsequent novel to Anne Groell at Bantam/Spectra for an advance a bit more than three times what DAW was giving me. Contracts are being written as we speak, and by this time Read more…
book covers
Guess What I Got in the Mail Today?
This is my prize for winning Scalzi’s LOLCreation contest. Just showed up today. In case you can’t read the inscription, it says: “To Steve, who does not do logic wrong.”
politics
Why Mixing Religion and Government is Bad
Sudan doesn’t like your teddy bears. Britain’s foreign secretary said he was “very concerned” about the case of a UK teacher who was in court Thursday, facing charges of offending religion by allowing a teddy bear to be named “Mohammed.” Not only is is an appalling case of “let’s persecute Read more…
pet pictures
Bonus Kitty
This homeless waif accosted us while we were unloading groceries a couple of weeks ago, rubbing our legs and mewing incessantly. Since there’re coyotes in the neighborhood (I had seen two crossing the street earlier that evening) we took the creature in and placed her on the sun porch, segregated Read more…