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Tiptree auction and par-tay!
Ellen Klages was the emcee at the Tiptree Auction, and I'm afraid Jen and I sat on the front row and made a bit of a spectacle of ourselves. Ellen had lost a bet with GoH Eleanor Arnason and was dressed in a chicken suit, but Jen and I got the chicken suit when she...
Wiscon
I have to say, Wiscon is of the good. Where else can I get my shoulders rubbed by Jed Hartman? I proposed marriage, but he said that would cost more tickets. Dammit! Must go eat. 🙂
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I rewrote the datediff function in the submission tracker and thought PHP geeks might enjoy it. I find it very sad that PHP does not have a built-in datediff function like ASP or Cold Fusion. /*The variable $date1 comes from the database, and is converted to unix...
Well, that was fast…
I hate the new title of "Women's Work." That was fast. I really hate it. It's pretentious and it sucks. Titles all suck. They're evil and hard. Can I just call it "Chicks in Space"? Or, better yet, "the one with two chicks on a time dilation voyage"? Maybe I don't...
various and sundry
Today is Brian's birthday! Happy birthday! Today is also the closing for Austin Heart of Film, but I mailed my script and Sallya on the 13th. Woohoo! *crosses fingers* I haven't really written stuff since I finished the screenplay. Things are percolating--the...
story title change
Well, I've decided I hate one of my story titles and it is the suck, so I spent some time yesterday trying to come up with a new title. See, the old title was "Women's Work" and was supposed to be a subtle coded hint about some backstory thing, but subtle hints and...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.