Well, Ms. Editor did not get her presentation together in time to put Missionary Man on the agenda at last week's editorial meeting. Her next opportunity will be October 15th—which means two more weeks of waiting on tenterhooks before we get some vague sense of the book&
So the editor, my agent, my brilliant wife, and I have all been going back and forth for the past couple of weeks, getting a book proposal ready that's tailor-made for the needs of this particular academic press. We've got a summary of the book, an
So, there's, er, cough, some serious interest in the book from the religion editor at an academic press. There's nothing definite yet—the editor needs to prepare a presentation for the press's editorial board, and they need to approve an offer, and this and
I just received a copy of the cover art for Beyond the Last Star, the anthology where my story "The Diagnostic Feast" will soon appear. The book will be available on or about September 23rd. More info as that draws nearer!
At my birthday party last night, my friend Bob Howe brought as a gift a stack of CDs. He had recorded my appearance on "Hour of the Wolf," digitized it, edited out the irrelevant bits, and burned the meat onto an 80-minute CD-R—six times. He also made
Friday morning I put seven—yes, seven—stories in the mail, including one called "The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain" which I wrote the first draft of thirteen years ago but which I only became satisfied with after rewriting it last week. This brought my total
Last-minute reminder: I'll be Jim Freund's guest early tomorrow morning on "Hour of the Wolf," his long-long-running science-fiction talk show that appears on WBAI 99.5 FM. The show is from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. Eastern time. If you're
I emailed invitations today for a birthday gathering next week. One invitation went to the St. Martin's editor who is reading Missionary Man. She wrote back. She said: "I've started reading Missionary Man and it's very entertaining." Let's just hope
A writer friend who hangs out in my Usenet newsgroup on news.sff.net remarks that my posts there are remarkably calm, cool, and collected for someone who has strong editorial interest in his memoir. "You are doing a very good job of trying to act cool about this
A couple of schedule changes to announce. My appearance on WBAI's "Hour of the Wolf" has been bumped up a week from August 17th to August 10th. I'll post a reminder as that date gets closer. And the release date for Beyond the Last
I just sort of accidentally ran across the listing for last week's reading that ran in the New York Press. Since it's fun and amusing, I offer the link: http://www.nypress.com/15/29/listings/3.cfm It's the second listing down. Wish
By any objective standard, I think you'd have to say that Wednesday's reading was a success. In fact, the consensus seems to be that I rocked the house. █████ and I went out with Tor editor Jim Minz for a drink beforehand. I intended to drink only
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