I was in Maryland last week, in various cities. Saturday, I was in Easton to watch a movie in the Chesapeake Film Festival. It was a movie, believe it or not, about movie trailers, called Coming Attractions. And no, I never saw a trailer for it. It was really more a documentary than a movie, but it detailed how movie trailers came to be and how they came to be called trailers, though they do anything but trail after a…
I’ve taken up journal writing again, and in no way do I mean this blog; this blog is so far from being true journal writing, with its potential for being read by all sorts of characters imaginable, that I would never consider this my journal. I used to, back before I ever turned the comments on and long before I ever gained an audience, in the days no one saw my words except for me and a couple of curious…
I’ve been working in the e-publishing industry for almost six years now, and I’ve worked for over a handful of publishers and with more authors than I can count. I’ve talked on the phone with maybe a total of six of these people in all these years, but I’ve only met one person face to face: Tina Burns, publisher at Liquid Silver Books. And that was just recently, really. I’ll be meeting with her again tonight while she’s in town…
I mentioned before that I was working on some projects in pink and yellow, and here they are. They’re about 3′ x 4′ each, and I used worsted weight Lion Brand Yarn, specifically their Pound of Love yarn, so they’re really thick and kind of heavy, perfect for keeping your lap warm on cold evenings. The pattern is my own design, and it’s a little more varied, as you can see, but without straying too far from the narrow color…
I bought a laptop. After falling so far behind while out of town, I knew I’d need one eventually. Plus, my office desk and chair are falling apart—the keyboard shelf keeps falling at one side and dumping my keyboard in my lap, while the left arm rest has fallen completely off my chair—and rather than replace the aging office furniture, it seems more practical to get a computer I can take with me to bed or to the kitchen table,…