Xandra | March 8, 2010
But I swear I had a great excuse. I had a :gasp!: computer issue (easily solvable, I love linux and the community that supports it *in instantaneous realtime, no matter how late it is!*). Computer, easily surmountable. Two sick kids with tummy bugs…not so much. There is no support community or quick fix for that [...]
Xandra | February 26, 2010
This week I submitted the sequel to Jolly Rogered.
I’ve been submitting manuscripts since 1998. Granted, I write slow, and many of my submissions have been to traditional publishing (and via snailmail, to boot), so it’s not as if glaciers move much slower than the process. Every time I do this, I get a little thrill [...]
Xandra | January 22, 2010
Random pages on Wikipedia are dangerous things. My latest random visit took me to the entry on the Vox Humana (I was actually trying to remember the latin quote “Vox populi, vox Dei” – the voice of the people is the voice of God, but I digress). Turns out the Vox Humana is actually a [...]
Xandra | January 15, 2010
It snowed last week. A wonderful, white blizzard of unique and precious snowflakes and a delicious kind of cold that only comes with snow. And I didn’t write, because I have small children who like snowballs. But I did think a lot about accumulation, especially as I was pushing it off the front [...]
Xandra | January 9, 2010
New Year’s Resolutions are a crapshoot. Everybody’s enthusiastic in January, until about the 18th hits and the post-holiday boredom sets in. That’s about the time the exercise machine starts becoming a clothes hanger, the shiny toys have run out of batteries/been stepped on/the teeny-tiny little pieces have been vacuumed up, and the leftovers have all [...]
