George would like me to let y’all know that Sleeper Straddle, the next Wild Cards book, will be released in hardcover on February 6th. Yes, I have a story in here. It’s set in Sri Lanka, and I think it’s pretty cool.
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Bits of CapriCon: some of my books at the Larry Smith table in the dealer’s room (they only have one copy left of The Stars Change, Perennial, and Tornado, and I think they’ve sold out of my cookbook, sorry!) view from my window; I decided to get a room for tonight, a combo of relatively
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Little bits of CapriCon — after my two panels yesterday afternoon, Cecilia Tan and I ordered takeout to her room and we had a nice two hour catch-up before her panel. Lots of personal talk, lots of professional talk. In some ways, there’s a lot of overlap between her writing career and mine, so it’s
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Made it to CapriCon, about to do my first panel. Will be in panels ‘til 6:30. If you see me in the bar, do feel free to come up and say hi. And note that I have dressed to match the convention theme, The Endurance of Stars. I try. Lovely to be among my people
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Excused Absence Acceptable reasons: serious illness, jury duty, religious observance, death in the family. A student writes to me: professor, I’m sorry I left class early, there were a lot of people coughing; if it’s still policy to mark me absent, I’ll understand. I write back to say, no worries, you’re excused. I tell my
Writing accountability, about 20 minutes, 412 words. Took me forever to get going, and I feel like I hardly wrote anything — but it’s a scene, if a tiny one. “Shanthi woke up gasping. That was the only sensation that she noticed at first, the tightness in her throat that for a moment, made it
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Sri Lanka research questions. Talk to me about phones. In 2016, would a middle-class family in Negombo have cell phones? Land lines? What about their fisherman relative? What about their 12-year-old? Also, what might a 12-year-old girl in Negombo be likely to do on a Saturday afternoon? I’m assuming she gets at least a little
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Writing accountability — 40 minutes, 755 words. Good sprint; got through a fun scene, and have left our heroine in mortal peril. Should make it easy to pick up again. 🙂 “Shanthi felt strange, like a current was moving through her body, pulling strength from her muscles. The piles of plastic trash began to shimmer?
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Really didn’t feel like writing this morning, kept doing annoying business stuff instead, which I never want to do, so I guess it’s okay that I did it. But I did eventually write something — 257 words, 20 minutes or so. Calling it for today. Maybe tomorrow will be better. “It’s so beautiful, Shanthi said.
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I’m trying hard to get a better handle on how to do Facebook / social media effectively. I find it all VERY TEDIOUS and something my mind is REALLY NOT SUITED FOR, but I’m trying, people. The kids’ college funds are not as well-funded as I’d like them to be, and if I can sell
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