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The Term Fan
Categories: Signings/toursAn odd thing has happened since I got published; I've begun noticing how people use the word 'fan'. The word bothers me just slightly, but for odd reasons. I don't hesitate in calling myself a 'fan' of someone else's work. In that context, the word--to me--simply means that I enjoy that author or filmmaker. I'm a fan of Terry Pratchett, for instance. Continue Reading...
Signing This Saturday!
Categories: Signings/toursJust a quick update. I'll be doing a signing this Saturday, and it will probably be the last one for a couple of months. The details are as follows: Continue Reading...
Late Updates
Categories: Mistborn Warbreaker Mistborn 2Warbeaker HTML: Chapter Eleven Continue Reading...
Knife of Dreams
Categories: Wheel of TimeWell, after about a month of procrastination, I'm finally getting around to doing the final blog post in my series of "Wheel of Time read through" responses. Thanks to all of those who emailed me reminding me I'd never gotten around to writing a post about Book Eleven. Also, those of you at LJ, it looks like my blog-posting software skipped updating the post I did earlier in the week, so here's a link to it on my own website. You didn't miss much, just a little update explaining that I was done with the grading last week and had moved on to continuing AMoL. (Also, forgive any typos in the following. I wrote it really fast, since I've still got a thousand words or so of AMoL I need to get done tonight.) Continue Reading...
Progress Bar Moving Again
Categories: People In SF Signings/tours PodcastLast week, with the pile of final papers I had to grade (thirty pages from thirty students, so around a thousand pages of reading material plus computations of final grades and all of that) I only managed to get 3k written. (My weekly goal is 10k.) Fortunately, with the previous week's extra writing (I think I did closer to 15 or 16k that week) I'm still pretty much on target. I did 1k earlier today, so that--with last week's--gets us one more blip forward on the progress bar. Continue Reading...