Targeting Agents (in a good way)

Writing

I snagged a helpful bit of information from Pat Esden on hunting down a good agent, and bagging the contract when you find one.  The article is by Ethan Ellenberg, so it gives the inside view from the agent perspective.

Squawk Like A Pirate Day

Just for Laughs, Writing

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, I’ve sent my submissions out in true pirate style. Ahoy, me beauties!  I be sendin’ ye a yarn or two, en ye be sendin’ it back with me pretty silvers or ye’ll be a bilge rat, hear?  Cap’n War’ll slit yer gizzard and dice it fer the sharks if

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Planting for the Spring

Home in the Rookery

The five-year old and I bought 100 daffodill bulbs today and chopped our way past the one thousand and one rocks, through the brick-like clay, and passed the construction debris to put thirty of them in the ground.   I seriously pulled out one chunk of concrete the size of a dinner plate. However, it was

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Robert Jordan

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers

You’ll forgive me if I feel like a lot of people are dying of late…just my perspective, I’m sure. Robert Jordan was a wonderful author, with an incredible series populated by fascinating people.  My condolences to his wife and family, and my thanks to the folks who put together this nice tribute. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/NDncUFO50Gs” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent”

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Witchiest Get Rich Scheme

Folklore and Myth, The Human Condition

So what’s the oldest-latest scheme for making money?  The art of Necropants, as detailed in the Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft.  I’ll let you read it from the source, but be warned that it involves wearing a dead man’s skin as pants. Besides being the funniest scheme I’ve ever come across, it also reminding me that

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Ripply Pictures and Sunny Robots

2 CommentsSpeculative Science

Reading about the HypoSurface Walls reminded me of watching an interactive, animated, 3D movie, in Disney World.  A screen that can move and stretch would take the ‘make it real’ factor up a notch or two.  Especially if they combined it with a screen that went all the way around the viewer. These receptionist robots look like giant Lego

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Dressing Up

Home in the Rookery

Yesterday I recieved a heavy box full of my next batch of textbooks.  Nine books for the Modern China class, two for World History, and one for Modern US History.  I pulled out my school calender and got busy with a highlighter and pen, fitting these classes into the schedule. Because I’m an Independent Study student, I can

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