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Yes, I am an Apple enthusiast. I’ve worked on a Mac since 1987 and am typing this on my 9th Macintosh computer. (All but two of the older ones still run and are in use at various tasks around the house.) I have bought/obtained five iPods, all of which still work. I even owned both […]

I’m not sure why, but I learn a lot of personal lessons when playing sports. I played coed indoor soccer for the Gunners today and started in the goal. I’d played the other team before, and they had some good players—some guys who shot hard. In fact, one of the first shots I actually got […]

In a comment about President Obama’s over-exposure in the media, talk show host Glenn Beck said the following: “We just didn’t see [President Obama] enough. … The man was everyplace. The only place he didn’t show up in was my bedroom to personally talk to my wife and make sweet love to her. At least […]

I am not referring to the rainstorms lashing Arizona, though I could be. Weird thing, rainstorms in a desert. Having grown up in New England, I’m used to rain. The ground usually soaks it in. Not here. The ground is like adobe brick, so the water sheets off. Now I enjoy hydroplaning down the highway […]

On Monday, feeling disinclined to work because of a strained calf muscle and a sore back from soccer, I Tweeted and Facebooked the following: “To Avatar or not to Avatar, this is the question.” I got a flurry of responses to that simple post on both services (far more so than on any other post […]

As you can see from the image above, When Dragons Rage has made it into French! Marc Simonetti did the cover for Milady and I love it. The book hit the stands in November—Nina Peacock actually had a picture of it on a shelf, which was the first I knew it was out. There’s something […]

There seems to be a bit of confusion about agents among writers, and some anxiety that’s cropped up because of a Wall Street Journal article that talks about the state of the publishing industry and their reluctance to look at any submissions coming in without an agent being the source. The article suggests that what […]