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I worked more on doing the hand edits on At The Queen’s Command today. This means I sit, read, mark things up, make notes, then take breaks to do laundry, pick things up, and other chores I hate doing. Somehow, however, they are more fun to do than sitting and editing. The editing process is […]

Editing a novel, for me anyway, is a process that I enjoy and dread. Dread first. This is a huge pile of paper, somewhere around six hundred fifty manuscript pages. And I know, from many years’ experience that the front end of it will be the worst. In starting a novel I tend to toss […]

I mentioned before that I’d loaded my Sony E-reader up with a bunch of books from Project Gutenberg. Since 1971 volunteers have scanned and proofed uncounted volumes of fiction and non-fiction. That proofing part of the process is very important. The few books I’ve pulled from Google Books tend to have a bunch of OCR […]

Upon my return from Vermont I uncovered incontrovertible evidence that the TSA believes my mother is a terrorist. As I was leaving, I sat in the airport with my parents. My mother and I watched some TSA guys going on break. One was a rather large young man, suffering from “Dunlap disease”—his belly “dun lapped […]

I find it kind of funny that we get conditioned by songs and movies and TV and all that Christmas should be perfect. It’s one of those times when everyone should be happy, and redemption should be rampant. A Christmas Carol, for example, preaches that message. We’re all supposed to be our best selves and, […]

Today’s travel to Vermont for the holidays was not too bad. Things began well with being upgraded to first class for the long leg, from Phoenix to Philly. Security as not too bad, but from this point forward I will aways go through the “A” checkpoint instead of the “B” checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor. […]