Writer Tamago

Of course, there are up to five nominations for fan writer, and I will highlight a couple of the other blogs that I want to put forward, but I really want to spotlight Jim for a moment. If you've been following Writer Tamago for any length of time, you know that I've read all Jim's [...]

Steve Bucheit "borrowed" this link from Chuck Wendig, and I'm sharing the love: Twenty-five Things Writers Should Stop Doing." Of course, we all see ourselves in there somewhere. Jay Lake found this at Mur Lafferty's: Honesty and Depression Jay Lake also points out the Tea Party Negotiation Strategy: I still don't think these people even [...]

Tomorrow I return to work, and a bit more regular posting here. I will be getting to work on interviews, but for a while I need to be revising and working on reading Hugo stories (of which I have received a few to cover.) For your entertainment, since a retro-spectacle seems to be a bit [...]

If you are an author, and you'd like to send any of your work to me for reading for nomination for the Hugos this year, I'd be happy to look at it. Yes, I have paid the cost of admission, and now I can nominate stories for the ballot. Your best bet is to send [...]

We emerge from our Christmas break to report that Walter Jon Williams just sent me my acceptance letter to Taos Toolbox. I know, you were all so sure. I wasn't, so we'll just go with that. I find, in the author gig, it's always better to be prepared for rejection. That said Or maybe . [...]

Breakfast Gingercake Orange Juice Milk Dinner Sparkling Grape Juice Water Roast Beef Tenderloin Parmesan Potatoes Green Beans with Almond Slivers Whole Grain Rolls Cranberry Cherry Compote Key Lime Pie or Chocolate Pots de Creme Supper Most likely leftovers from the above two meals. *** Ingredient shopping tonight. Hopping down to the MiL's tomorrow, and beginning [...]

It's Christmas, and even more than Thanksgiving for me, it is the time of year when I realize that I don't have much of a family. It's also the time of year when I realize that what I want is the fantasy family that I've been taught we all should have. I definitely made the [...]

Um...no, this isn't for steampunk...although you can use it. I'll be getting on with my Gothic bad self now. Victorian Interiors and More Victoria Station Victorian Decor

Let's get this link up here, with thanks to Jay Lake: Don't Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. Because these economists realize how important the middle class is. *** Keeping with the financial theme, it's now time for a fiscal fable.

Well, I've been thinking about what to put on the old bloggeroo in the New Year. You might have noticed that I have finished my VP XIII interviews (Yes, I know I didn't do a spotlight on me, so the interviews aren't complete. That's for all you literalists out there. No, I don't intend to [...]