7/1 - Watch this Thai guy pour tea. Looks impossible, looks CGI but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkm8wMRgtx8
7/3 - How often does a grocery store commercial get you all verklempt? http://fb.me/33UDM46zz
7/4 - Happy Birthday, USA
7/6 - Aspire to inspire before you expire.
7/7 - sorry to subject you to my continuing love affair with bad puns... http://tinyurl.com/m6jujwa
7/9 - Heather Graham and I held a 2-hour workshop at the Craftfest part of Thrillerfest.
7/10 - met with the Apple/iBooks folks to discuss doing some business. The iBooks app will be integrated into iOS 8 and all Apple products sold from this fall onward.
7/10 - evening at Thrillerfest. Drinks with friends old and new at the exquisite Campbell Apartment hidden away in Grand Central Station http://tinyurl.com/qbrsp9c
7/11 - moderated an 8am Thrillerfest panel this morning and people showed up!
7/11 - met with a Wattpad rep. They have 30 million registered readers - skewed toward millennials and younger, down to tweens - and we discussed ways to reach out to them.
7/12 - video interview for "Books du Jour" - I'm sure I'll show up eventually. http://bookcasetv.com/tv-programs/books-du-jour/
7/14 - Don't forget: The Bible, the Quran, the Talmud, the Book of Bokonon, and the Necronomicon all list pineapple pizza under "Abominations"
7/15 - where can I buy these? http://tinyurl.com/p53khme
7/16 - saw "The Strain" pilot and what I felt most was not fear but deja-vu - from the Van Helsing stand-in (also named Abraham) to the coffin arriving on a death ship. The worms are the only non-derivative aspect so far.
7/17-20 - another NECon, another sleepless weekend
7/21 - I came across an intriguing phrase: defying anti-gravity
7/22 - from an Assyrian Tablet, c. 2800 BCE: "The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
7/22 - signed a boxful of FEAR CITY advance copies for the Gauntlet edition and sent them back.
7/23 - I keep getting these "GoFundMe" emails... and I keep misreading them at first glance.
7/23 - after a decades-long search, I finally found (or rather, it found me) the John Schoenherr "Wheels Within Wheels" cover painting for Analog. Here's what it looked like on the magazine: http://tinyurl.com/nwk54tp
7/24 - "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G K Chesterton
7/25 - In honor of SDCC, my Joker story, "Definitive Therapy," is featured and FREE on Wattpad: http://www.wattpad.com/56881557-definitive-therapy
7/27 - $50k+ for potato salad??? Where’s the recession??? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324...tato-salad
7/29 - off to Nantucket for a couple of weeks of reading and relaxing.
7/3 - How often does a grocery store commercial get you all verklempt? http://fb.me/33UDM46zz
7/4 - Happy Birthday, USA
7/6 - Aspire to inspire before you expire.
7/7 - sorry to subject you to my continuing love affair with bad puns... http://tinyurl.com/m6jujwa
7/9 - Heather Graham and I held a 2-hour workshop at the Craftfest part of Thrillerfest.
7/10 - met with the Apple/iBooks folks to discuss doing some business. The iBooks app will be integrated into iOS 8 and all Apple products sold from this fall onward.
7/10 - evening at Thrillerfest. Drinks with friends old and new at the exquisite Campbell Apartment hidden away in Grand Central Station http://tinyurl.com/qbrsp9c
7/11 - moderated an 8am Thrillerfest panel this morning and people showed up!
7/11 - met with a Wattpad rep. They have 30 million registered readers - skewed toward millennials and younger, down to tweens - and we discussed ways to reach out to them.
7/12 - video interview for "Books du Jour" - I'm sure I'll show up eventually. http://bookcasetv.com/tv-programs/books-du-jour/
7/14 - Don't forget: The Bible, the Quran, the Talmud, the Book of Bokonon, and the Necronomicon all list pineapple pizza under "Abominations"
7/15 - where can I buy these? http://tinyurl.com/p53khme
7/16 - saw "The Strain" pilot and what I felt most was not fear but deja-vu - from the Van Helsing stand-in (also named Abraham) to the coffin arriving on a death ship. The worms are the only non-derivative aspect so far.
7/17-20 - another NECon, another sleepless weekend
7/21 - I came across an intriguing phrase: defying anti-gravity
7/22 - from an Assyrian Tablet, c. 2800 BCE: "The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
7/22 - signed a boxful of FEAR CITY advance copies for the Gauntlet edition and sent them back.
7/23 - I keep getting these "GoFundMe" emails... and I keep misreading them at first glance.
7/23 - after a decades-long search, I finally found (or rather, it found me) the John Schoenherr "Wheels Within Wheels" cover painting for Analog. Here's what it looked like on the magazine: http://tinyurl.com/nwk54tp
7/24 - "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G K Chesterton
7/25 - In honor of SDCC, my Joker story, "Definitive Therapy," is featured and FREE on Wattpad: http://www.wattpad.com/56881557-definitive-therapy
7/27 - $50k+ for potato salad??? Where’s the recession??? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324...tato-salad
7/29 - off to Nantucket for a couple of weeks of reading and relaxing.
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