Heavy work this weekend: literally

by | Jan 29, 2011 | Journal

I got the finished text of Intruder ready to send to my agent, who will transmit it to DAW. I have already transmitted the galleys of Betrayer. We….are getting a new kitchen countertop. Ours had lost its finish, and is white, which means Jane has scrubbed every...

And still more checking…

by | Jan 25, 2011 | Journal

Rather than manage the whole heavy manuscript of Intruder, with spilling pages and markup, this time Jane loaded it onto the Kindle, the same way we just did the galleys. She read it, installed notes, and now I’m reading it on the Kindle, and diving aside to the...

Betelgeuse may be imploding.

by | Jan 21, 2011 | Journal

It’s showing loss of mass. It could flare up to give us a display. No danger to Earth: it’s quite far from us. But, hey, talk about life imitating art—see the geologic history of the Seeking North scenario.

I've been locked in the galleys…

by | Jan 20, 2011 | Journal

Takes a bit to do this. It’s not like reading. You have to be alert for stupid periods where they don’t belong, the global decision to capitalize every word that follows a colon, the indecision on when Cook (a specific man) should be capped…I tell...

I’ve been locked in the galleys…

by | Jan 20, 2011 | Journal

Takes a bit to do this. It’s not like reading. You have to be alert for stupid periods where they don’t belong, the global decision to capitalize every word that follows a colon, the indecision on when Cook (a specific man) should be capped…I tell...

You may have noticed us coming and going…

by | Jan 18, 2011 | Journal

… This was a problem at the host involving a particular server. We are now back, and we believe the host has now solved its problem. This solution may also answer certain questions such as the sudden rash of download errors we have had at Closed Circle, which...

The Betrayer galleys just landed…

by | Jan 15, 2011 | Journal

…on my virtual and figurative desk. For the first time, a pdf of the ms, then, same day, the actual galleys which I’ll mark; but I can read the pdf on Jane’s Kindle. IF I can get Jane to lend it: she’s got Intruder on it, and is in...

Finished the bit for Janet,

by | Jan 14, 2011 | Journal

now working on the April Seeking North bit… It rained and blew, and most of our snow is gone, but there’s a great submerged ice sheet on the pond. The hockey people are trying to have an open air hockey meet at our baseball stadium. Naturally it’s...