Friday, April 3, 2009

Various Things

  1. I'm now reading Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress. I love her. Also reading Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing by Arnie Bernstein. It came in the mail earlier this week. It's wonderful to see the real thing in print.
  2. Yay Iowa!!! I got married there! Very proud of that part of my midwestern roots.
  3. Bookends blog has an interesting post on what good things an author can do (from an agent's perspective). I skipped the agentfail thing since most of the writers seemed to be largely griping that a) the agents aren't reading their superb and wonderful queries/submissions fast enough b) they hate the no response means no thing and c) how dare agents publicly Twitter or otherwise admit to having a life and taking a break from work when they should be reading all the wonderful queries and submissions from all the commenters. There may have been something interesting further down, and perhaps if I were an agent, I'd find it all useful. As it is, I decided working on my writing was a better use of my time.
  4. Finally, FINALLY finished chapter 11!!!!!! (I don't think I have enough exclamation marks there to convey my excitement at this.) It feels really good to feel like I'm moving forward again. Maybe I will finally finish and get to start sending out.

That's all. Want to get this up. There is a beautiful thunderstorm going right now. The mist has floated off the Hudson and the thunder rattles the apartment. So besides the worry that my electricity will go out before I post, I'm really enjoying the show.

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