This will be a short review. After the whole Hugo etc awards issue with this book (and others) being inexplicably disqualified for reasons that were never disclosed or explained by the committee, I decided to read the book that people agreed was the most puzzling omission; Babel by R.F. Kuang. It took me a while […]
Some Additional Thoughts on AI
I can’t stop thinking about this simple fact: Companies are rushing to implement AI despite overwhelming proof that AI does not work for most, if not all, of the stated purposes. AI still, and quite famously, provides incorrect, made up, or flat-out absurd information. Everyone in IT departments everywhere knows they are being asked to […]
Administrative Update Regarding WordPress and Writer’s Diary
Some of you may have heard the news that WordPress has agreed to sell the data on WordPress.com hosted sites to an AI firm for data mining. This blog is self-hosted and therefore not on WordPress.com. Here is a link to the original report from 404 Media for more details. Presumably, WordPress.com data would also […]
Oh, And One More Thing!
Bound in Smoke – Progress! For the last three weeks I have been preparing to do another paper read through of Bound in Smoke. I printed out the whole thing and had it in the binder and something kept nagging at me so I didn’t start that day. Then I was walking back to the […]
Midsummer Updates
Midsummer is Here! Here we are, halfway through July. Summer is not my season, I gotta say. I am not a warm weather person. If summer is your season, I say enjoy it, but I will stay out of the sun, slathered up with SPF 50 if I do venture out, and be grateful for […]
Summer is Coming and the Writing is Never Easy
Happy June to everyone! It’s true writing is never easy, but I am writing! Bound in Smoke is (dare I say it?) structurally complete. For quite some time I had chapters that were dangling out there not fully belonging. I wasn’t looking at them much because I was addressing other issues and writing new chapters. […]
May Greetings! The WIP and a New Cover
The WIP Bound in Smoke continues to go really well. The paper read-through was productive up to the point where I stopped editing to deal with the changes that resulted. Those needed to be in before I pick up with the back half of the story, so there was no point going farther with the […]
Shame on Scholastic Books
Scholastic: Money before Honor Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall wrote a Children’s picture book titled Love In the Library, a story based on her grandparents and the US internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. The book is published by Candlewick Press. Scholastic inquired about licensing the book for distribution in their channels, but […]
Spring is Springing!
Greetings everyone! This was a week of spectacular weather after a couple of days of light rain. A few of the many wildflowers I planted are coming up so fingers crossed that continues. Everything is starting to bloom! Yay for April and spring weather. Yesterday I took the dogs for their walk and it was […]
A Wednesday Post About Weather and Writing
Weather: We Have It. Greetings to everyone! California has been in severe drought for the last several years which has been scary and sad. We’d stopped planting our yearly tulips because even with a six week rest in the fridge before planting they require February frost and freezes, and for the past 2-3 years we […]