January 2011
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Contest for listeners of Marco and the Red Granny. I’m in contact with Carrie to add more to prize pot.
Happy Hogswatch!
Happy Hogswatch! Enter the contract with the hogfather and perhaps you’ll get a present if you hold up your end of the deal.
“I am Jack’s smirking revenge.”
– Fight Club
Done
My second midgrade novel, The Battle For The Girl’s Bathroom, is finished. I’d take a triumphant picture but you don’t wanna see grubby Mur in old sweatshirt.
Now to prep for Winterspielfest, 2010.
Final stretch
Flooded basement Wednesday.
3500 words Thursday.
3500 words Friday.
Today: write till done. Nearly there.
The More You Know
If you have a water damaged book, put it in the freezer. Services exist to repair them, apparently.
Of course, our water damaged books are books, well, we put in the basement because they were deemed unworthy to take up precious shelf real estate. So they’re just a mess to clean up.
That said, there are some nice books elsewhere I’d cry if they got water damaged, so now it’s...
Hello, World (update)
Plumber arrived and fixed things. Jim and I discovered how fast hours fly by when you’re going through ruined crap in your basement. A disaster team is here with heavy duty stuff to dry things out. My sad little office heater is boldy saying it did what it could before they got here. Furnace repair still not here.
I’m on Twitter and Facebook break. And my sites are still down, so no...
Hello, World
My sites are still down. I Should Be Writing, Murverse, Princess-Scientist, etc, all down for about 15 hours now.
A pipe broke. The basement flooded and the new furnace shorted out. We are wet (with no water, very “greek hero punished in Hades”) and cold and moving many soaked boxes of books.
2010, you just had to get your last licks in, huh? Fuck you.
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Fantasy vs SciFi
As a SF editor (with a sister fantasy magazine, so genre is pretty rigid), I think about this topic a lot. And I realized something this morning about monsters/tentacled beings/etc:
If they’re on another world/in space: science fiction
If they’re here on earth: fantasy
If they’re overly violent/bloody: horror
I’m not sold on the idea, but it seemed… odd but...