I apologize for being a few days late with this post. The reasons were manifold. Part of it, as noted earlier, are all the viruses, both computer and human, running rampant in my home. Just as I was getting over the swine flu, I was forced to completely wipe my computer and one of my [...]
Fantasy for Breakfast
I’ll get to the Fan Art Contest in a minute. Honest. In the meantime, I wanted to post this fun thing google alerts showed me, a French fantasy review blog called Fantasy au Petit-Dejuner, AKA Fantasy for Breakfast. The reviewer films short videos of his review, showing the books next to his brekkie. He is [...]
World Fantasy 2009, Part 2
As I mentioned in the first WFC post, one of the best things about the convention is meeting virtual friends and coworkers in person, often for the first time. Sometimes when you don’t even expect it. Back in 2004, I started a small blog on a site called Journalscape. It started mostly a platform for [...]
SFWA Mill & Swill 2009
Went to the Science Fiction Writers of America annual NY publishing reception on Monday night at Planet Hollywood in Times Square. Like World Fantasy, this is an event I never miss, since as someone who works from home, it is a rare chance to see all my peers and coworkers in person. I had a [...]
World Fantasy 2009, Part 1
So I went to WFC this year in San Jose, and had an awesome time. I kept meaning to blog about it, but I came back to a mountain of work, and then I got the swine, and then my computer broke, etc. Due to the comedy of errors the last few weeks of my [...]