A couple more shots for you from LTUE

Behind the cut. These are from my real SLR camera. Still more shots from my phone to come. (Meant to do it last night, but sorry, I fell asleep in the middle of the post!) Gloria Skurzinski, writer of nearly 60 books for young people, mostly science and science fiction–see her site (linked through the … Read more

FAQ: Electronic submissions

I’m finally answering one of the questions you guys asked! jjsass  wrote: Waving from France! I was wondering why you didn’t accept e-mail submissions at Mirrorstone?  It seems to me that a publisher of science fiction and fantasy would be more attuned to the ecological aspects of e-mail submissions – no ruining the ozone layer … Read more

Fun with the sidebar

I’ve been very graphics-heavy in my LJ lately, and I’ve just decided to embrace it. My reading list on the side has grown to include both books I’ve read lately (though I certainly am not going to include an icon for every book I read this year! That wouldn’t work, I don’t think–though perhaps I … Read more

New usericons

I’ve been finding lots of great Avatar usericons through various links from my friend and fellow Avatar fan yedijoda (particular users credited on each icon). But I kept forgetting to upload them! Finally tonight I was thinking I should finally upload the icons I’ve made of my cats, and saw the Avatar icons. So, this … Read more

Speaking of cats

Tonight has been an infuriating night of kitten mischief. I think Mogget is getting disoriented by the moving boxes–I’m moving in a few weeks and have started to collect boxes at work. Remember the puzzle I talked about the other day? I started a new one on the card table, and he’s been chewing on … Read more

A picture a day

Via yedijoda , pictures of my old haunt , BYU. (I lived in Utah for 4 1/2 years, and finished my undergrad at BYU.) Apparently LJ featured provophoto  on the f ront page today, and she caught it. I rarely go look at the LJ front page, so I’m glad she did, because this guy has … Read more

International readership

I was curious who was reading me–and how many, because who knows? it could be 2, it could be 20–besides the obvious (people who have friended me), so I’ve been trying for months to figure out how to do something like my Blogger friends do with a sitemeter. I’ve finally figured it out. It took … Read more

Life, the Universe, and Everything–photo post

Thought I’d share a few pictures from the conference, too. These are just the ones taken from my cute little cameraphone, as the pictures taken on my real camera have yet to be developed. Ah, that’s something I should be doing today. Wednesday night, Feb. 14–Pre-con dinner with guests of honor and special guests I  … Read more

LTUE talk part 8

Continued from Part 7 (We’re getting near the end, don’t worry! This was only a one-hour talk.) Now, we’re on to Tiffany’s second draft. With this particular draft, Tiffany focused on improving the initial buildup.   Wow, what a difference. The questions I asked sparked ideas in Tiffany I would never have thought to suggest. … Read more

LTUE talk part 7

Continued from Part 6 Yesterday, we left off with the outline stage of In the Serpent’s Coils. Let’s continue with the rest of the revision process. Like I said yesterday, Tiffany went through 6 different drafts with me from first sample on 8/29/05 to turning in final draft to me on 7/31/06. So, over the … Read more