All parents have their priorities. Some are obsessive about teaching the basics of reading and math, and make their child’s life an endless grammar/math quiz. Others don’t give a damn about reading and just want their child to be able to sing. Or dance. Or sit and watch sports/play video games with them. No matter [...]
Treasure in the Mail
The postal service has been good to me this week.
One of the things about being an author that I’m still coming to terms with is all the awesome books I get for free, often in advance of their on-sale dates. Some of these are my own work, and that’s to be expected, but my publishers [...]
The Circle of Death
I started this post months ago, and then forgot all about it until a NY Times article my agent sent me reminded me about it.
One of the first acts of the Obama administration was to push forward an economic stimulus bill in an attempt to kickstart a recessing economy. Many detractors said that this is [...]
Worlds Collide
So this is odd.
Some of you may know that before I started writing fantasy professionally, I worked in medical publishing for 10 years. I wore a lot of hats in that career: editor, project manager, copyeditor, proofreader, art director, print production supervisor, vendor manager, and probably a bunch I’m forgetting. One of my regular duties [...]
More Overwhelming Adorableness
People down in DC were completely losing their minds over the snowpocalypse earlier this week, hoarding firearms and dry goods while watching the movie Alive to help themselves make peace with the concept of cannibalism. Having spent 4 years living in Buffalo, NY, I doubt it was really all that impressive. A dusting, we would [...]
Superhero Naptime
Been a while since I posted some Cassie pix/vids, so I thought I’d rectify that quickly, starting with this adorable video. Cassie likes to spread out her blanket on the floor each day and put her toys down for an afternoon nap. Here you can see her starting naptime for her superhero action figures, including [...]
Juggling
I feel like I haven’t been updating the old Peephole as much as I’d like these days, but it’s been hard of late. I feel like Rojer trying to juggle with his crippled hand sometimes, moving wildly to try not to drop any of the balls.
2010 has been very busy, and it’s just starting up. [...]
Welcome Pearse
My nephew, Pearse Brett Foley, was born today at 2:22 pm, 19 inches long and weighing in at a hefty 8 pounds, further securing my genetic legacy to future generations, and giving me another excuse to go to the toy store all the time.
Congratulations to my sister Kelly and her husband Darragh, and welcome to [...]
Books Read in 2009
A lot of bloggers are making end-of-year lists of books they read in 2009. They’re not hard to find, but here are some particularly awesome ones (because they mention yours truly, natch):
Fantasy Book Critic
Robots and Vamps
A Dribble of Ink
Walker of Worlds
Fanlit
The end-of-year roundup is something I’ve occasionally done on the Peephole, and since I’m [...]
Toronto Update
Check out Matt’s Blog about our Toronto trip. It is WAY better than mine was.