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 me [...]
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 really [...]
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 [...]
Always Trendy
I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated, but in my quest to always be trendy and hip to the latest fads, I caught a nice case of H1N1 about 2 weeks ago, and spent about 7 days being totally useless, and another 5 feeling generally cruddy. This was followed by some massive computer [...]
Time is Short
Only one day left to enter the Fan Art Contest, and some very determined fans are looking to make it as hard as possible for me to pick a winner. Today we have new entries from Jess, Marilia, Iris, and Dwayne.
Jardir, by Jess:
The Painted Man, painting, by Marilia:
Leesha know best, by Iris (click to enlarge):
The [...]
Fever Dreams
I’ve been running a fever for two days now, ever since I went to bed on Wednesday night. I had just read a couple of chapters of the new Wheel of Time book, and the night was filled with shivering, sweating, and dreams of Rand al’Thor, as my subconscious desperately tried to solve his problems [...]
Two More
The fabulous Elena from Russia has put in two more entries to the Fan Art Contest: Mery and Rojer. I’m glad people are entering multiple times, because I LOVE what everyone is doing!
Elena’s comments on her entries:
Mery because I wanted to see the girl, who took Arlen’s heart (Now it is up to you to [...]
Painted Men
Just when I thought the Fan Art Contest could get no harder to judge, another entry hit my inbox, this from Craig, AKA “Booga” from the UK. Not to be outdone by Mark, Craig displayed a freshly inked wood ward on his ankle:
This is apparently one of the last places he can tattoo, as he [...]