What does it say about me …that I enjoyed the Sports Gal’s column on ESPN.com more than I’ve enjoyed anything from Bill Simmons in the last year? (For those of you not in the loop, Bill Simmons — a.k.a. The Sports Guy — writes regular sports/pop culture columns for ESPN. He’s notorious for his love [...]
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I’ve heard recently from a couple of readers who picked up corrupted and/or incomplete files of Agnosis in the Palm eReader format from manybooks.net. I’m not sure how widespread this problem is, but in the event that you’re looking for a complete file and not having any luck over at Matt’s site, I managed to [...]
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As of 9:13 PM, I would like to welcome the 1st Official Nephew of the blog, Cole Jameson Hawkins, into the world. (That link currently goes to Cole’s mom’s MySpace page. I’m sure Christy will have some pictures up there soon.) Mom (Christy), Dad (my brother James), sister (Emma) and Cole are all doing well. [...]
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It’s once again time for me to shamelessly pimp some of the pop culture media that have grabbed my attention lately. (Because I am a sucker of the pop culture.) Plus, it’s hard to attract groupies if they don’t know the sorts of things they should be glomming upon. The last thing I need is [...]
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This is going to be one of those potpourri updates because I’m going about a million different directions right now. So strap in, put on your crash helmets and dive in. First off, I’m absolutely stunned at the traffic I’m seeing since Matt put my work up on manybooks.net. Lots and lots of new visitors [...]
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I wanted to take a brief opportunity to pimp a couple of links that I’ve recently become aware of. First off, I strongly encourage you to get in on the ground floor of The Pageant of the Transmundane, a fiction blog that just started up, which features the work of Huon Longman. Huon was kind [...]
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The astute among you might have noticed that I didn’t get Chapter 5 of Agnosis posted until Tuesday morning, thus missing my Monday Guarantee(tm). It was a holiday. What can I say? The even more astute among you may have noticed that I’ve slowed down tremendously on my blog posting as of late. This doesn’t [...]
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I’ve been battling a resurgence of insomnia lately. Since the dreaded bout with encephalitic meningitis a few years ago, I periodically go through these phases where I’ll sleep three or four hours a night for a couple of weeks, then more or less physically collapse and catch up on my sleep schedule all at once. [...]
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So I spent yesterday up to my eyeballs in the guts of Agnosis. Why would I do this, you ask? Well, it turns out that I queried/partialed a certain major SFF publisher about this novel almost a full year ago — an act which I had largely forgotten because, well, it was almost a full [...]
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I like software. I like to play with shiny little utilities that are well designed, have small computing footprints, and do what they claim to do simply and well. Writer and programmer Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock series, has a nice collection of utilities for writers and readers available for free (FREE) at [...]
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