Month: October 2007
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On Target
Happy Halloween to all you ghosts, goblins and witches. I’m getting ready to leave for the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY this weekend. Hope everyone has a good one. Mine has already started out really well. I’m pleased to announce that Target has selected One for Sorrow to be one of their Breakout…
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Imagining a future
From CoolCleveland.com’s email list today, a video report from Hunter Morrison about Youngstown, the history of its loss of an economic way of life, the progression of its decline, and the strategies for imagining a future with a new identity that the thirty-something and lower crowd here have begun to bring to life in recent…
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The Orphan’s Tales
Fellow Ohioan and fellow exile from the land of the rising sun Catherynne Valente has released the concluding volume of her Orphan’s Tales today. The first book was a really beautiful artifact, so I’m excited to see how Cat follows it up and brings the stories to a close. One of the things I like…
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Settling in
I am officially moved into the new house. If you’re looking to update my address in your books, send me an email and I’ll get the new numbers to you. I am exhausted from ripping up carpet and moving heavy furniture and scrubbing tubs and sinks and all varieties of surfaces, but it is so…
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World Fantasy Convention
So there are apparently only two bus shuttles on Thursday going from the Albany airport to the World Fantasy convention, one at noon and one at six p.m. My flight comes in at 12:42, so apparently I am supposed to wait in the airport for five hours until the second bus arrives. So if there…
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Back in a moment
I am moving into the gingerbread house (witch not included) and don’t have internet hooked up again yet–soon, though, so if I’m behind in answering an e-mail, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. It is raining here, and fall leaves are sticking to my shoes. I kind of like this, but…
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En Francais
This was very cool to find. I’m glad I can read French!
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Favor
I was wondering if anyone out there has a copy of this past Sunday’s Washington Post Book World. I searched high and low in my neighborhood to get a copy, but haven’t found anywhere that carries it around here. The price one pays for living the remote wilds of Ohio. I’m making a little scrapbook…
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Alicia Delvaux
Alicia Delvaux is one of my favorite bloggers, ever. She moved to Cleveland this year, but she still blogs for Valley24.com, a regional online hub for the Mahoning Valley, where I live. She recently posted a really wonderful entry about the things that have been occurring here in Youngstown in the past few years, recounting…
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Washington Post Review
A really pleasant surprise this morning. Though I don’t think it will appear in print until tomorrow, One for Sorrow has been reviewed in The Washington Post. And reviewed well! An excerpt: Traveling through this story with Adam is like a nightmare, but the kind that fascinates you so deeply that when you wake up,…