Ringing In The New Season at the Stadium
I’ve been at every home opener since 2000 except 2009, which got rained out and so I drove back to Boston in tears instead of staying in the city another ...
Category: general blather
Discoverability, Still A Book's Biggest Problem
I gave a talk as part of a panel in the Bookbuilders of Boston/Emerson College “Gutenberg to Google” series of presentations on the ebook r/evolutio...
Donate now, receive a special scene…!
Okay, an enthusiastic reader convinced me to try this. In the scene just past in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles (“Madness: One Step Beyond”) our na...
Yes, my birthday is coming up. Public displays of affection requested.
Okay. People keep asking me what I want for my birthday, which is in two weeks. I’ve set aside Saturday the 10th to celebrate but haven’t figured ou...
Bandwidth boost: Help Temeraire!
So, apparently the publishers of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire books (which I adore to bits) have caught bracket-mania and are doing “cage matches” ...
The Prince's Boy: 35
(Continuing the weekly serial by Cecilia Tan! Need to start at the beginning? Click here.) Part 35: Kenet The next day, the general was still not recovered enou...
A tree fell on my house.
Ouch. So, last night at about 5 am I wrapped up what I was writing. The wind and rain had been a gale all day and night, with branches knocking against the hous...
The Prince's Boy: 33
(Continuing the weekly serial by Cecilia Tan! Need to start at the beginning? Click here.) Part 33: Kenet I played the part of Roichal’s page for a few mo...
Art?
I’m starting to really want an icon for The Prince’s Boy. My budget is of course next to nothing, but it occurs to me there might be some appropriat...
Goodbye Forest Cafe
It is with a heavy heart I report that the Forest Cafe, my neighborhood bar and watering hole, is closing its doors forever. There’s an article online fro...