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...

Getting the tank back into shape

by | Jan 12, 2011 | Journal

We had let the marine tank kind of get along in the keeping of the monster hammer coral…euphyllias like it, and they had taken over. So we fragged the monster (Jane has pix) and rearranged the tank. To our great disgust, Jane’s brilliant arrangement has a...

the day from hell—Wednesday.

by | Jan 6, 2011 | Journal

I get up—I turn on my computer. I have no website. I have no blog. I have no e-mail. It’s snowing. I figure out that when I received the notification that I owed more money to a company for the website, I dimly (I have NO brain when I’m working on...