7/1 - weather.com describes the moon phase as "waxing / Gibbous" - HPL introduced me to "gibbous" - he definitely expanded my teenage vocabulary
7/3 - FYI: A website devoted to "The Keep" film and the TD soundtrack http://thekeep.0catch.com/
7/4 - had to share: I'm a longtime pulp fan and I think this cover is absolutely brilliant. http://tinyurl.com/748skfc
7/5 - the dialogue "and voiceover for the Reacher trailer… "He doesn’t care about proof, he doesn’t care about the law, only what’s right." (*shudder*)… just awful... http://tinyurl.com/83yvr7h
7/11 - Moving along: Hit the 70k mark on DARK CITY (#2 in the Early Years trilogy) and the 5k mark on the Pellucidar novelette
7/12 - Stephen King emailed me a link this AM. Paranoid SOB that I am I didn't click it. Wrote back and asked if he'd been hacked. He said "that's a big 10-4." Lotsa folks being hacked lately. Even the K-man.
7/12 - beer and bloating in Las Vegas. (Not really -- haven't had a beer in weeks) Got upgraded to 1st class this AM and made it to TAM 2012 in time to listen to Penn Jillette record a hilarious and sacrilegious podcast
7/13 - in Vegas. On Friday the 13th. At TAM2012. Rainmaker, me? (as opposed to rainman) When I go to LA, it rains. Now I'm here in Vegas and it's raining.
7/13 - from Penn Jillette’s bacon and donut party at TAM2012 http://twitpic.com/a7jwve
7/14 - Favorite bumper sticker from TAM2012: "When the Rapture comes, can I have your car?"
7/15 - rose 4am in Vegas for an early flight and Sunday was that I saw this conjunction out the window (I didn't spot Aldebaran, but all the other were clear as can be): http://www.flickr.com/photos/55077401@N04/7575231840
7/15 - stuck in Mccarran - engine trouble. Nothing but problems since United and Continental merged.
7/16 - the trip from hell: rise 4am 7/15 in Las Vegas - head on pillow at Jersey Shore 4am 7/17
7/18 - Tom Monteleone and I crash at Dan Waters’s place pre-NECon
7/20 - this cautionary tale ends with "Want to stop this from happening?" Dude, it already here. http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf
7/23 - hey, audiobook fans: the paperwork isn't all done yet, but I've accepted Brilliance audio's offer on the Early Years trilogy (starting with COLD CITY in the fall) and all the remaining unrecorded Repairman Jack novels.
7/25 - received my copy of the UK edition of BOOKS TO DIE FOR edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke. It's a big 'un. Proud to be in such great company.
7/26 - finished a draft of my Pellucidar novelette: 12k words and 10k exclamation points!!! (Trying for a balance between my style and ERB's). A work-for-hire story, which I routinely refuse. However, for the chance to play in Pellucidar I overruled myself.
7/28 - off to Nantucket with a Kindle full of novels. The only time I get to read other peeps' work.
7/3 - FYI: A website devoted to "The Keep" film and the TD soundtrack http://thekeep.0catch.com/
7/4 - had to share: I'm a longtime pulp fan and I think this cover is absolutely brilliant. http://tinyurl.com/748skfc
7/5 - the dialogue "and voiceover for the Reacher trailer… "He doesn’t care about proof, he doesn’t care about the law, only what’s right." (*shudder*)… just awful... http://tinyurl.com/83yvr7h
7/11 - Moving along: Hit the 70k mark on DARK CITY (#2 in the Early Years trilogy) and the 5k mark on the Pellucidar novelette
7/12 - Stephen King emailed me a link this AM. Paranoid SOB that I am I didn't click it. Wrote back and asked if he'd been hacked. He said "that's a big 10-4." Lotsa folks being hacked lately. Even the K-man.
7/12 - beer and bloating in Las Vegas. (Not really -- haven't had a beer in weeks) Got upgraded to 1st class this AM and made it to TAM 2012 in time to listen to Penn Jillette record a hilarious and sacrilegious podcast
7/13 - in Vegas. On Friday the 13th. At TAM2012. Rainmaker, me? (as opposed to rainman) When I go to LA, it rains. Now I'm here in Vegas and it's raining.
7/13 - from Penn Jillette’s bacon and donut party at TAM2012 http://twitpic.com/a7jwve
7/14 - Favorite bumper sticker from TAM2012: "When the Rapture comes, can I have your car?"
7/15 - rose 4am in Vegas for an early flight and Sunday was that I saw this conjunction out the window (I didn't spot Aldebaran, but all the other were clear as can be): http://www.flickr.com/photos/55077401@N04/7575231840
7/15 - stuck in Mccarran - engine trouble. Nothing but problems since United and Continental merged.
7/16 - the trip from hell: rise 4am 7/15 in Las Vegas - head on pillow at Jersey Shore 4am 7/17
7/18 - Tom Monteleone and I crash at Dan Waters’s place pre-NECon
7/20 - this cautionary tale ends with "Want to stop this from happening?" Dude, it already here. http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf
7/23 - hey, audiobook fans: the paperwork isn't all done yet, but I've accepted Brilliance audio's offer on the Early Years trilogy (starting with COLD CITY in the fall) and all the remaining unrecorded Repairman Jack novels.
7/25 - received my copy of the UK edition of BOOKS TO DIE FOR edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke. It's a big 'un. Proud to be in such great company.
7/26 - finished a draft of my Pellucidar novelette: 12k words and 10k exclamation points!!! (Trying for a balance between my style and ERB's). A work-for-hire story, which I routinely refuse. However, for the chance to play in Pellucidar I overruled myself.
7/28 - off to Nantucket with a Kindle full of novels. The only time I get to read other peeps' work.
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