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Wave Without A Shore
It’s a work in progress but everything should work now
April finally brings spring weather: 50 degree days and 34 degree nights…
But the Muck Vac I got for the pool doesn't work. Serious disappointment. I don't know if I can get them to take it back but it's a POS. It's like trying to clean a beach with a toothbrush, re the power that thing doesn't have. We skated for a while---then took out to...
At 20 pages, the outline is nearly complete: next phase…
Is to go through and slice out bits and put them where they need to be. This is the 52-card-pickup phase. Young writers are frequently stunned to know that WHEN things happen is not really the plot. The plot is why things happen. And you can actually move events...
Jane’s going to fling herself off, well, the front porch: it’s all we’ve got…
You may know that she's been working from 5 am literally until 11pm for the last week to make fonts behave in the e-books, and to be legal and proper with the copyrights of the font designers and marketers and not pirate them, by their definitions: ie, you can't use...
Jane's going to fling herself off, well, the front porch: it's all we've got…
You may know that she's been working from 5 am literally until 11pm for the last week to make fonts behave in the e-books, and to be legal and proper with the copyrights of the font designers and marketers and not pirate them, by their definitions: ie, you can't use...
Jane’s got another beta trial going over on her blog…
She thinks she's found the problem...
Jane's got another beta trial going over on her blog…
She thinks she's found the problem...
Fashion in footwear…and broken ankles. Or necks.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/09/fashion.shoes.heels/index.html?hpt=C2 Yep, hotel stairs, uneven tiles, you name it. Teens, perpetually curious and anxious to be 'in', will try it...some of them novices to high heels. Sigh. I routinely balance on ice on a quarter...
Ventilating the kitchen…
We have a low attic. Neither of us is up to shinnying up through the access in the top of a closet and ploughing through the insulation and dust to cut a hole in the kitchen ceiling. We have a fan up there, which doesn't do much of a job. And broiling requires good...
Received information on memorial gifts for Azureblu
Her favorite charity was anything to do with kids' cancer charities---google that phrase will get you a selection if you would like to make a donation in her name, for which I think Azureblu is sufficient, respecting how she chose to be known here. The sentiments of...
Jane has just made a major leap in e-book formatting…
TOC and all. She's been working on this for 2 months, and is now beta-testing (see her post) a new e-pub version that will enable use of other fonts and a searchable table of contents (TOC).
Just received (and did: they gave us 72 whole hours!) the galleys…
...for Gwydion and the Dragon, to appear in Wings of Fire, which is about to go to press. Got to clean up some serious glitches that turned up in the Ballantine edition. Clarity, mostly. It's a story that relies on subtlety, and some older grammar forms, but missing...
Another classic sf writer to catch, if you haven't: MZB
Marion Zimmer Bradley was one of a kind. She and I met on Hugo Awards night in KC, my very first convention. I was so mundane I'd brought Sunday best and high heels for my only attire, especially since I'd heard the award banquet was going to be tux and tails. I...
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