The revolution of e-books can’t come soon enough for me. There is a great SF book called Achilles’ Choice that I recently pulled off my shelf, intending to use it in a blog posting, but when I searched B&N to link to it, I found it was out of print! Sadly, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes’ awesome little 1991 tome is unavailable, except through… Read More
I have a library theme going here … With the advent of the iPad and e-readers quickly becoming a reality, it is sometimes difficult to keep pushing the technology in your fiction forward – so that in a couple years, when you are published (we hope! we hope!), the technology will not have already become old hat. Yet, dreaming up… Read More
What the … ? I look waaay scarier as a Na’vi than I do in real life. Eeek! Go make yourself blue. But my Na’vi name, Niktaq’a is all kinds of awesome. What did you think of the movie? I was in love with the beauty of it, and bitterly disappointed by the paper-thin characterizations and trite ending. So much… Read More
Unable to compete with Google renaming itself after a midwestern capital, and Gmail in VowelFail mode, I reserved my funnies for April 2nd. I love the library. It’s not just a source of books and information (not to mention e-books, DVDs, audio books, online access and Story Hour), but a source of entertainment as well. Thanks to Mary Calhoun Brown… Read More
If you are old enough to know that 2 bits refers to two coins which together equal 25 cents, you’re probably not reading this blog. Then again, 2 bits has achieved stardom in The Urban Dictionary, so who knows? Over Spring Break, I trooped all my boys down to get their moppy hair cut (which cost substantially more than 2… Read More
With the kids home for a solid week (that would be 9 days, including the weekends. Yes, I was counting) the questions were coming fast and furious. God Bless teachers because they have to answer these questions all day long! The small sampling: Worm Burner (8): “How does that work?” *points to old fashioned scale serving as decor at a restaurant* Mom’s… Read More