Sorry for the absence of posts lately. Life’s been a little nutty. But I did get lots of reading in (not that my Currently Reading badge gave any indication of it, woops!).
Hammered, by Elizabeth Bear
Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi
Jumper, by Steven Gould
Starfish, by Peter Watts
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Or should I say, Le scaphandre et le papillon, since we watched Julian Schnabel’s adaptation of the Bauby book in its original french last night.
Aside from the fact that it was a fascinating movie, I have only one thing to say. If you ever catch me complaining about how hard it is to sit my ass in a chair and write, just look over at me and say “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. And I’ll shut up.
Apparently there’s a lot of angst out there if one’s book gets classified as YA.
And here I am, worrying that my new one isn’t YA enough!
Apologies for any downtime you might have experienced today. Apparently my server’s data centre is located right in the heart of this.
I don’t understand the insistence on monospaced fonts in some corners of the publishing world.
I can sometimes understand the request for plain text. But if a submission is requested in .doc or .rtf format, what’s wrong with Times New Roman?
My biggest beef with an insistence on the various flavours of Courier stems from how much longer it makes a document. In electronic format, it doesn’t matter much. But for a recently printed submission of mine, the same document printed out to 38 pages in 12-point Times New Roman, and 49 pages in 12-point Courier New. That:
I can certainly understand not wanting to receive submissions in wacky fonts that aren’t very legible. But a perfectly usable serif font like Times New Roman can’t be that horrible, can it?
