Uncreated Conscience

My brain feels completely and utterly wrung out. I am incapable of stringing together two words to form a coherent sentence. I used to believe that I had an endless capacity for writing and speech, but more and more I’m starting to believe that I have a quota of words that can be used in [...]

I think the Tenth Doctor’s expression pretty much sums my entire life since BEA. Blog silence reigns supreme. Why? Oh nothing. I’m only drowning in work, is all. Reading and editing and rejecting and acquiring and launching and…gaah! Isn’t summer supposed to be a slow time for publishing? What happened to that? At some point, [...]

Internet, internet, I have meant to blog, truly I have. I have been mostly sidetracked by other things. Mostly, work. And books. And running. And…other things. I often think of topics or ideas to share with you all, but then forget it over the course of the day, which is filled with interesting things (like [...]

I am dire need of a divan, a fainting couch, a sofa, a futon–anything. When I first signed on for this gig, I knew there would be a lot of reading involved, but I didn’t quite factor in the occupational hazards. The volume of reading I can deal with, but it’s how I read that’s [...]

If you want a life. No, seriously, your time will no longer be your own. There are so many things I need to do (like finish my friend Tara‘s commission!) and even more things I’d like to do, but ever and always there will be a growing number of manuscripts lurking in Tomas the Ereader, [...]

The building in which I work has hired cleaners this clean the windows this morning. Ordinarily I don’t mind (aside from the very great fear I may witness one of them falling 26 floors to his death), but today they are using what looks like a chainsaw and sounds like 1000 fingernails scratching chalkboards mixed [...]

There is an overwhelming smell of cornchips in here. And I mean overwhelming. It can’t be Sisco. He has the overwhelming smell of men’s cologne, and it can’t be C either, because she put on far too much eau de toilette this morning. I have the sneaking suspicion it might be my boss. But exactly [...]

Por no razon, yo voy a escribir todo el entry en espanol. No me preguntees “porque?” porque no se. Me siento que lo haciendo. Si tu quisiera una translacion, me pregunta una otra vez. Estoy perezosa. Espero que mi gramatica tienes razon. Si no, lo siento. La ultima vez que yo saque una clase de [...]

I found out that I’m working this Saturday. Working. The day The Order of the Phoenix is released. Which means that instead of spending the day reading the long-awaited next installment in the Harry Potter series I’m stuck sitting at a mariachi festival at the Hollywood Bowl, arranging interviews, directing media, and such. It bites. [...]