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  • Feeling social (media)

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    Have been filling my site with all kinds of social media widgets lately (I mean the site over at deborahbiancotti.net, with attendant wordpress blog, in case you’re reading this in lj — which I haven’t gotten around to updating yet). And so I’ve now borrowed Liz Argall‘s cool widget & added Skribit to my WordPress…

  • Getting through

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    For anyone who tried the livejournal email address overnight: my apologies. I had to execute some command or other to get it working (again, I may’ve turned that off some years back & forgotten). However, both email addresses are now working, & your request for copies of the BSFA-nominated stories ‘Problems of Light and Dark’…

  • Forward and back

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    Ahhhhh, January, welcome back. With the last precious few days of my holiday running out, I’m fighting off the organising-the-year blues (insurances, taxes, gym, house maintenance) & trying to make the most of what I gots while I gots it. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with,…

  • Weeding your literary garden

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    If, like me, you have limited space in your life, then perhaps you, too, are looking for ways to eliminate those nasty little disease-carrying lurgies called BOOKS! The roomfordebate blog shows you how. Says author Chang-rae Lee, “Anthologies of fiction and poetry that have “greatest” in the title; “best” is O.K., but “greatest” usually means…

  • More on endings

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    Over at the American Book Review, they’ve made a list of 100 best last lines from novels. Most of ’em aren’t even spoilers. Some of ’em really make you wonder what the hell kinda book came BEFORE that line. Check it out. Also a note to whatever hacker tried to line up vietnameseorphansfund.org to point…

  • In general

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    I can’t believe how OLD Die Hard looks. Please, goddess, please, don’t let anyone entertain the idea of doing a re-make of this film. Not only because they’d screw it up, but also because who could possibly afford all the glass they’d need to break/smash/shoot in the action sequences? Rat-a-tat-a-tat!!! In other news: * Twelfth…

  • lj betrays me

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    I’ve fallen victim to the no-emails-on-comments thing on livejournal. So if you’ve commented against my posts/comments & I haven’t responded, it’s because I didn’t get the memo. Sorry ’bout that.

  • Auspicious endings

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    In good news, our little book-that-could, A Book of Endings, available now from Twelfth Planet Press, has been nominated for an Aurealis Award in the Best Collection category. Yay! Also, yay! to see such fine fellows as Paul Haines, Geoff Maloney, Robbie Matthews, Donna Hanson and Greg Egan in the collection, too. In fact, overall…

  • Hey, I’ve worked for this place

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    Ah, Dilbert. Font of all wisdom.

  • Culturally worthwhile day

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    Body didn’t know, last night, if it was sleepy or awake. So alternated between the two states at random, testing them out. Asleep at 11pm, awake at 1am, 2am, 3am, 4… asleep at 9am, 10am… You see the pattern. Spent the night going to the window, burningly alert, staring out at the city. ‘Can’t wait…