Drumroll…has started…

We are not going to make it by any decent hour tonight, and we don’t want to open Closed Circle for the west coast, Hawaii and Australia while the east coast and Europe is asleep. Tomorrow at 12 noon Sunday in Spokane will be 3pm in New York, 8pm in London, and...

Lynn Abbey's in: she's gotten the splint off…

…her hand, and is starting to work, having put together her new computer today (try screwing in tiny computer screws with a hand in rehab). Knowing we are so close to launch, she has edited and put three short stories into the pot. So all 3 of the Three...

Lynn Abbey’s in: she’s gotten the splint off…

…her hand, and is starting to work, having put together her new computer today (try screwing in tiny computer screws with a hand in rehab). Knowing we are so close to launch, she has edited and put three short stories into the pot. So all 3 of the Three...

An eerie electronic silence

…from about 8am until about 3pm, local. Not one e-mail, Comment, tweet, or other contact from the outside.  I began figuring maybe I had screwed my incoming mail. But spam was arriving, though less than the usual 20 an hour. Paranoia set in. I began to think...

A day with the US Copyright office. Gasp.

I started before 11 am; it is now 3:01 pm local, and I just now got through registering the copyright on 4 books. I have to give the .gov site kudos for unflappability: it didn’t lose info if you had to backtrack in the maze, and it developed an autofill button...

Progress on the e-book launch

We have spent the day trying to untangle the tentacles of MS Word from 4 relatively small files I thought I would run a fast conversion on. Wrong. Use Word Perfect. It produces actual HTML that we can convert. It does not scatter 3 lines of code into a document to...

Link to the free download of A Writer's Life: vol 1.

https://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?p=951 This is a repost, but the link had scrolled off the current pagelet, so I thought I’d refresh it. A few notes. 1. This is still the older file. It still has warts. We’re busy loading the REAL shelves of our...

Link to the free download of A Writer’s Life: vol 1.

https://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?p=951 This is a repost, but the link had scrolled off the current pagelet, so I thought I’d refresh it. A few notes. 1. This is still the older file. It still has warts. We’re busy loading the REAL shelves of our...