Failing again. Failing better.
Sorry for the late post today, but I went golfing this morning. It was the first round of the season, so I won’t bore you with my epic collapse, but I will say this: Who in their right mind puts a hole in the hill of a green? What is this–mini golf? The hole was…
My dad is a geologist, so although my family likes to poke fun at my Dad (my parents’ attic is full of boxes of rocks), stories about geology do grab my attention. And this story by New Scientist is a very big geology story: old rocks might be much, much older! I know, I know.…
You get a two-for-one with this post. One story about McDaniel College creating a new program for genre fiction lovers. And a second story on how a writer should handle rejection. First, McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland announced that it would start offering a minor in genre fiction: horror, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, mystery, Westerns, and…
This is me today: Credit: Bryan Lee O’Malley That’s because I’m waiting for a super nerdy package of books from Amazon, that includes The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron (@Rachel_Aaron), The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and the Mistborn Trilogy boxed set by Brandon Sanderson (@BrandSanderson). Jealous? Now if you’ll excuse…
Ah, the recursive magic of Twitter. Today, Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) tweeted a link to a blog post by Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) that included a quote from Gaiman and Patton Oswalt’s (@pattonoswalt) Death Bed bit (that clip has some NSFW language, by the way, so don’t click on it unless your boss is very cool or…