I've been updating the reading list on my other blog with the books I finished or started in February. Generally I write them up when I'm done and put them in the month I finished. I'm still nibbling on Lamentation since it takes some concentration, so the intrusion of my copyedit is keeping me from reading it faster, but I'll get it done. Now, back to the grind....

I have been down with a sinus headache for two days--yeah I get the killer kind whenever the atmospheric pressure drops drastically as it did to bring in yesterday's wind and snow--they last about 48 hours and nothing makes them go away but time. Drugs only help the rest of the symptoms and I'm useless on the computer for any significant stretch of time, nor does the creative side of my brain work...

... like an arrow (and fruit flies like a banana.) Tomorrow is my friend Ken George's birthday (no I don't remember or care how old he is.) Ken is the guy who got me started with my first "weblog" back in September of 2000, among other things. Here is the text of the first posts I ever made there. I owe Ken a considerable debt for that and for kicking my ass regularly and frequently about getting...

Tonight at Third Place in Lake Forest Park! (Where the cool Steve works.)

Back in 2004 when I was finishing up the research on Poltergeist, I spent some time trying to find the original "Man Alive!" footage and home films of the Philip sessions that the original New Horizons/Toronto Psychichal Research Society participated in. No dice. A few people I talked to then and later suggested that the video had never existed, that the book itself, Conjuring Philip , was a hoax...

It appears I should blog substantively more often: my views and linkage have sky rocketed since I started actually saying something. Huh. Imagine that. And that brings up a thought not unconnected to recent web discussions about blogging and promotion and such: what makes a good blog? or a good blog post? Personally I'm not interested in writing metrics--neither reading nor posting them--most of...

Back when I was a newbie author I went to a convention--my first convention as a "pro", though I didn't actually have a book coming out for 3 months. In the Green Room I was introduced to a crowd of fabulous people who were all very friendly and nice to terrified me. Some of them I still manage to stay in touch with. Of those was a tall, ginger-haired guy... And he was telling a story about himself...

So... One of my frequent blog visitors (and someday I'll figure out who she is in Real Life and I'm sure I'll be embarrassed as hell that I haven't put name and LJ-handle together sooner) mentioned that to most people who don't hang out near boats, there's no differentiation between "boat" and "houseboat" if someone lives on it. For a boater, there's a huge difference and for those in Seattle there's...

Well... this is interesting in a "someone shoot me now" kind of way... The Seattle PI Wage Comparison by Occupation widget . I suspect the median and mean for "Writers and Authors" is a bit skewed due to the small size of the sample (710). While certain people are making rather nice money quite a few of the rest aren't. At least not yet.