If you are into fantasy fiction at all, read Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer.

I’ve done a review here if you want more information, but just trust me!

The author also maintains a blog here. I love the trend of blogging authors.

1. The more difficult a customer is to work with, the more unforeseen things will go wrong with their order.

My job requires a thick skin sometimes, but if there’s one thing I have plenty of, it’s skin. Wait, that didn’t sound right.

Steve went to visit family in St. Louis until Monday. The cats stare at me, expecting me to do something entertaining. Even Project Runway is depressing. Bah.

If you’re looking at an ezine or journal, what tempts you to submit? The layout? The poems? The name recognition (poets or editors)? The submission requirements? The theme or preferences of the journal? The name of the journal? Word of mouth? Bribes in small denominations of unmarked bills?

Yes, thanks to Steven Schroeder of Sturgeon’s Law, I now know where to send my very worst poem(s) ever: The Awesomely Bad Review.

Except, honestly, I would be devastated if they:

1. Accepted a poem, or
2. Refused a poem, or
3. Suggested I send them a particular other work that they had their eyes on.

*sob*

I was looking at my cell phone earlier today and I discovered that in the 2.5 years I’ve had this particular phone, I’ve used it a total of 5 hours.

Apparently, I have no friends who wish to talk to me.

I got the results back from an exam I took while I was chatting with Gabriel. 99%.

Which doesn’t surprise me very much. I am a multitasker. I have a short attention span, so I need multiple things happening at once to keep me focused.

When I’m rich and famous, I’m hiring Gabriel to stand around and talk to me so that I can get things done. Right now, he’s doing it for free, bless him.

I’m tinkering with the blog again. Tinker. Tinker.

No one ever yells at me for screwing it up, so I’m hoping that means it’s functional enough. Does anyone care what the most popular outgoing link is? Probably not. It amuses me, though. Click. Click. Tinker. Tink.

His name is Gauntlett Eldermire. That’s awesome.

Check out Chain Reading, which allows you to mark books to be read, list what you’re currently reading, review, and recommend (and get recommendations) from others.

I’ve just joined, but it looks neato. You can come stare at me here.