If it seems like the days are getting shorter–they are. I know that’s counterintuitive since we’re moving from the shortest day of the year toward the longest, so we actually have more daylight each day. However, last weekend’s earthquake in Chili was severe enough to shake the earth’s balance and the scientific gurus who study such things say that the overall impact was to make our days 1.26 milliseconds shorter. Great. Just when it seemed like there weren’t enough milliseconds in the day already.
I hope you’ll join us tomorrow for a special event coordinated by Bitten By Books. This is to promote Tesseracts Thirteen, which contains my story “Overtoun Bridge.” The event is sort of a progressive interview with the authors in which people are invited to drop by all day long and ask questions, which we will answer from time to time during the day and into the following day as well. There’s also a contest, and if you RSVP in advance you get an additional 25 entries into the contest.
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I don’t know if there’s cause and effect at work here or just coincidence. I received an e-mail this morning from the editor from whom I had just withdrawn a submission the previous day. I opened it with some trepidation, worried about his reaction to my news. However, it turned out to be a general message to all of the people whose stories he’d accepted to date, dissolving the anthology and releasing our stories back to us. Since we hadn’t yet signed contracts, I didn’t really consider the release something of a formality, but it’s good that everyone is on the same page, so to speak.
The Italian translator of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion has found two errors in the text already. One is a genuine error, the other is an issue of interpretation. I’ll be able to fix the spelling mistake in the reprint. I’m working on getting an interview with him done in time for the next issue of Cemetery Dance. He’s been translating King’s work for two decades, so I thought people would be interested to hear about what his job is like.
The lieutenant on Law & Order was right: Clean-shaven, the two detectives look about 5 or 10 years younger. Baby faces. The two episodes last night were pretty good. SVU is doing two new episodes back-to-back this week, too, but I doubt they’ll be anywhere near as good. The Big Bang Theory was hilarious last night. Koothrappali’s musical shirt, a kind of Harpo Marx garment, was funny, especially the Law & Order double gong. “This restraining order from Stan Lee is going to look good next to the one from Leonard Nimoy,” Sheldon gloats.
