by CJ | Nov 25, 2012 | Journal
Ever since I got back from Fencon I’ve come down with a really horrid crud…it started out with respiratory nastiness that hung on and on—this was late September, and I’m still coughing in the tail end of November. Then the eye trouble, first a...
by CJ | Nov 25, 2012 | Journal
Ever since I got back from Fencon I’ve come down with a really horrid crud…it started out with respiratory nastiness that hung on and on—this was late September, and I’m still coughing in the tail end of November. Then the eye trouble, first a...
by CJ | Nov 21, 2012 | Journal
It’s a glorious peach sunset here, one of those sky blue pink affairs, in the aftermath of the latest rain (most of the day,) and they say it’s going to be blue and scattered cloudy tomorrow, before snow sets in for the weekend—and Jane and I are...
by CJ | Nov 20, 2012 | Journal
Catch some of the trailers. THere’s so much more to Baum’s worlds than has ever made it to the screen, and CGI can do some magic on this one… to be released in March.
by CJ | Nov 20, 2012 | Journal
Jane’s trying to make the files behave for all the e-books and line us up to try a different and perhaps more stable download source-site. She got to bed at 2, because my signup for the aforesaid site (helping her out, of course) went seriously awry—my...
by CJ | Nov 20, 2012 | Journal
…It’s hardly let up raining. We went through a dry spell in August and September, and got some rain in October, but right now we are busily filling those lakes and rivers that provide cheap electricity and we are piling up snow on the mountains that will...
by CJ | Nov 19, 2012 | Journal
We’re snug, don’t have to venture out except on good days, have plenty to eat, the fireplace is operating (we have an electric fire with a little hidden heater) and we’ve brought up the portable radiator for the bathroom (one place in the house you...
by CJ | Nov 18, 2012 | Journal
It’s going to be a little shorter book than usual, because the story just works that way; but this is how it needs to be without starting up bits I can’t finish within the rhythms of this book. You can have outlines all you like, but you just have to make...
by CJ | Nov 18, 2012 | Journal
…Alas, I have to wear dark glasses because of the eyes: have to protect the iris from light changes: keep the muscle from working, the doc says. We wore sweatshirts because it seemed a night for it, but while we live at about 65 degrees, that number of people...
by CJ | Nov 18, 2012 | Journal
It’s a way to get your own copy of a book. A little futzy on the printing, but it’s a great skill to learn, and you can let your imagination fly on the cover: lacquered cloth, even with picture glued to it; tooled leather, painted, you name it. Check it...
by CJ | Nov 16, 2012 | Journal
on the display of one of our newer covers…like one of the Netwalkers books. Let me know if it’s displaying correctly or if you spot any ‘artifacts’ like a white border, etc.
by CJ | Nov 16, 2012 | Journal
…Ordinarily I can write through anything. Anything. OTOH—something’s different today. My eyes are still bothering me. Up until yesterday I could write past that. But right now it’s like I keep putting thoughts into the basket and while...
