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Monday, October 17th, 2005

Well, I find I have a slightly less busy afternoon that I had thought, so I’m going to try to catch up on some of things I’ve been meaning to post, but haven’t managed to.

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I’m off to Wizard World Boston to help out the guys from Turbo Comics. Be sure to stop by and pick up a copy of the The Secret Monkey #1! I’m pretty sure this will be the last printing of this issue, so get ‘em while you can. I’ll be there today, and tomorrow afternoon.

I’m also pretty psyched that the gang from Mirage Studios is going to be there. I’ll try to avoid being a sad little fan boy, but it’ll be hard.

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The Secret Monkey Returns to Print

Monday, August 1st, 2005

More info over at The Secret Monkey site.

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WordPress: Hiding the Comment Link Without Disabling Pings

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

I saw this question over on Holly Lisle’s weblog, and thought I’d try to help. After a number of posts eaten by the comment gnomes, I think I’ve found the answer.

Since this might be useful to someone else, I’ve decided to post it here.

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What’s Up With All These Posts?

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

So most of you who know me, know we’re waiting for something big. It still hasn’t happened. I don’t want to start any more work on my novel until after it happens. In the mean time I’ve had a bit of free time, so I’ve been trying to keep on top of things around here while I can. One I do get back to writing I’m hoping to revise at least one of my short stories before diving into Novel work again. We’ll see.

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New Design

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

I’ve redone the page design. What do you think?

The theme is based off of the Gila theme, combined with elements from my old theme, to make it feel more like home.

Please leave a comment if anything is broken or missing or ugly or, you know, if it looks good.

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Read to Me

Friday, May 27th, 2005

I found this article from the New York Times (hint: bugmenot.com) over at Neil Gaiman’s blog. It was a pretty good read, consisting of the differing opinions on audiobooks vs. reading.

I found some of the quotes irksome enough to comment on.

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HBO Cancels Carnivale. Just Another Network.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

I just saw that HBO has canceled Carnivale. Why? Carnivale was an amazing show, and while the second season did tie up many of the loose ends from the first season, it also added boatloads of new ones.

Why do I bother to watch TV? I should just wait for shows to finish, and buy the DVDs. I don’t mean seasons, I mean shows. That way I’d know in advance that a show that planned to tell it’s story over six seasons was canceled after two. Then I could decide if that made it worth my time.

I’ve been a big fan of many of HBO’s television series, but Carnivale was hands down the best of them all in my opinion. It had to have been the best sci-fi show since the X-Files. It had just the right mix of mysterious atmosphere and interesting characters to make every episode seem far to short. It was well written, well acted, and I looked forward to it. All of these are signs of early cancellation, except it was on HBO, so I was safe, right? Apparently not.

If you haven’t seen the show by now, I still recommend it. The first two seasons were great, and they do tell a (mostly) complete story. I envy those of you who watch it for the first time on DVD and are able to just watch the next episode with no waiting.

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Quiet Around Here…

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

You may have noticed that I got really quiet after posting almost every day. Well, I was participating in the “March Madness” writing marathon over at Forward Motion. If you’ve been keeping an eye on my progress bar at the top of the site, you may have noticed it moving quite a bit. My goal was to write 1000 words a day for 7 days, and I pulled it off! That means I pretty much doubled my daily output, and didn’t miss a single day for seven days. That’s including working about 50 hours this week, and spending 2+ hours a day cleaning the house. Phew! I hope to keep it up, but I’m giving myself a lower goal for this weekend as it’s a bit crazy.

I hope to have more detailed reviews, but in case I don’t get to it I finished a few books since my last post. First, I finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Wow. It was an amazing book filled with surprises of various kinds.

More recently I finished listening to Ender’s Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition by Orson Scott Card. I’ve always wanted to read this, and my friend Matt had recommended it. When I realized that Audible had the majority of the series available unabridged I decided to give it a try. I really enjoyed it. I’ve read some of Card’s books on writing, but this is the first novel of his that I’ve read. It’s the story of a young boy being schooled in the art of warfare to fight a war against an alien race he has only seen on propaganda films. Ender’s story is filled with interesting and fully realized characters. I thought I saw the ending coming, and while the events I suspected did happen, it was not the ending at all. Great stuff!

Half way through Ender’s Game I knew I’d want more, so I already had Speaker for the Dead on my iPod and started it after taking some time to digest the ending of Game.

More soon, unless I’m busy, then more later.

Harry Potter and the Book Cover Hype

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

Look, I’m as excited as the next person to get my hands on the next Harry Potter (although no one seems to be offering the audiobook for preorder yet), but why did I just see the cover on the news? Why did every bookstore, online and off, feel the need to email me a copy of said cover? The book has two different covers in the UK, neither of which is the cover shown here.

Why are the “news” stories making a big deal about the fact that the cover may have something to do with the story. It’s the cover. Most books seem to have covers, and a lot of them have images on them. Sometimes they have something to do w ith the book. Not news.

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