L. A. Times Festival of Books
On April 16th, Kris and I attended the annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards dinner. Then on April 17th, I went to USC to set up the GLAWS booth at the L.A Times Festival of Books. This year, …
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2026 Writers and Illustrators of the Future
On April 16th, Kris and I attended the annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards dinner. This was a special one as it was the 42nd annual awards dinner. Many jokes and references were made to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide …
The Laptop with Two Brains
Computerismo Francisco Deep Thought Fanko is not completely dead. He’s getting better. It’s been a long road to recovery for my computer, Deep Thought. About a month ago the hard drive died, putting him in a state of brain death. …
Spent the Weekend at L.A. Times Festival of Books
It was great as always, but long days at the GLAWS booth. I’ll tell you all about it next week. Going to bed to get ready for work tomorrow. Dennis 316th blog completed. Second Steampunk novel: 18,234 words. …
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ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM
I’m a bit Zoomed out from this weekend. On Saturday, I had a Zoom meeting with the Loscon committee. All department heads discussed their progress to this point. Programming is coming along as they wait on some of the Guests …
First Quarter GOAL Check
The first quarter of the year is behind us. I’m not sure how that happened, but here we are. Time to check up on my progress on this year’s goals. Get published: These are the steps that have been a challenge …
Bug-Chicka-WOW-WOW!
Hi all, it’s Kristine. I’m usually the emergency non-medical holorecorder (i.e. Dennis’s backup blogger) for when he’s too sick, busy or burned out to do the weekly post, but this time, it’s for a special occasion and I volunteered to …
We Interrupt This Blog to Bring You This Convention
Hey all, Kristine here. Dennis is taking Memorial Day weekend off to recover from life, the universe and everything that has been beating him up lately (I’m looking at YOU, work!). The month of May has been a non-stop rush-fest …
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Paths of Writing
With Kris being out of work (see last week’s blog), she has been pursuing other means of income. One of them is writing in various forms. She is using her Patreon account to pursue her love of writing and generally …
My Wife’s Second Husband
Last week’s blog was sort of a non-blog. Too many things had happened that week, predominantly, the death of a close friend of ours, Frank J. Waller. He was a friend and also Kris’ caregiving client. So, we lost a …