And I have no good reason but to say, wow, I’ve been busy. I’m actually whittling away at both my submissions pile and my deadlines. Emphasis on deadlines–including some very nice upcoming books like the Practical Guide to Monsters, the …
Having been to a number of shows in the last year where I’ve picked up ARCs that I haven’t had a chance to read yet (yes, this includes books I picked up LAST YEAR), the 48 hour reading challenge issued …
This post isn’t from any actual questions, but it covers things we’ve seen happen either occasionally or regularly that either annoy us or make the editors’ jobs harder. Let’s take the last subject first. Let’s say you get a rather impersonal …
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A recent email asks a question that has come up several times in the past: I sent you two manuscripts/books, one to consider as a sample for work-for-hire possibilities, and one to consider as an original work. I got one …
That’s right, my new keyboard! The guys at work got the DHL driver to look again through his route and they found it! And it appears to be working. It was a relatively painless operation, too–the directions were clear and …
Still having technical difficulties. Did I mention it was only a keyboard problem (we think)? Yeah, so the keyboard was sent, and it arrived and someone signed for it. Only problem is, the person who signed for it doesn’t actually …
Regular programming to resume soon, I hope. I just found out that it’s my keyboard. New keyboard (very cheap fix! yay!) will hopefully arrive today. Meanwhile, enjoy more regency mixes care of YouTube.
With thanks to ErinAnnie for the link.
With thanks to Chris and my roommate (I think–the second one was given to me long ago by someone). I can’t find the source of these pictures, so if anyone knows, please let me know and I’ll link.
The very nice guy in our IT dept is looking at my laptop, and now that he’s finally seen the problem (it liked him so much it worked for him till I came down and it broke again), so far …