Pictures from last week’s kickoff
I meant to post these earlier, but here are some fun pictures from the campaign kick-off last week at Fireman's Park! I think they turned out pretty well. See the full gallery on Posterous
Writing update! Time for a end-of-month report on three novels.
It’s nice to have a blog for this kind of thing, because putting it out into the world helps keep me accountable for the writing I still want to do. So, without further ado, this is what I’ve been up to recently. The Saints Go Dying. As part of a strategy to try to get people reading the book, I’ve been inviting book review bloggers to review the novel. The results have been very encouraging. Here are some short blurbs: “Some of the books I have read recently have been … well … for lack of better word … lacking. Read more…
Some Recent Fiction Reads
I’ve read a few interesting books in the last month: I, Robot, Isaac Asimov. Asimov’s collection of short stories about artificial intelligence is more than 60 years old at this point. He created 3 Laws of Robotics that govern all robot interactions with humans–laws that are programmed into the robots, I mean–and most of the stories in the book are concerned with how those laws interact with each other and the quirks that result. Out of the 9 stories, I’d say 4 or 5 really worked for me. It was often too hard to get past where he had guessed Read more…
My campaign kick-off starts tonight!
And you pretty much couldn’t ask for a nicer day for it. Fireman’s Park. 5 – 7. Eat some ice cream, play some bocce, soak in the sun. Parks were built for days like this. Be in one!
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