I’m terrible at keeping up with podcasts. Mostly, I like to blame software for that. I haven’t found a podcatcher that I really like. Well, and time, because podcasts don’t allow for skimming, you know? But there’s also the profusion of good stuff out there, which prevents me from keeping up, and suddenly I...
Read more →I’m trying BlogGTK and seeing if I like it as an offline blog editing app. It took me ages to get anything to connect, because none of the programs I was trying to use could connect to my xmlrpc.php file. Turned out it was a problem easily solved, by editing my .htaccess file according...
Read more →UPDATE: This post has finally been reconstructed. Enjoy! UPDATE: Somewhere from a third to half of this post disappeared. I’ll rewrite that soon. But not today, as I’m (dramatic flourish) feeling ill! It’s been a busy lazy week. Since there’s nothing new in Gordland, I thought I’d just dump some links. I don’t do...
Read more →I’m pleased to announce that my “Asian superhero team” story “Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang” will be appearing in the Canadian speculative fiction anthology Tesseracts12, edited by Claude Lalumière, in 2008. It’s my third submission to Tesseracts, the first being a ghost story I sent back in the mid-90s (and which the editor...
Read more →Back from my travels. Bit exhausted. Doing this quiz that was ganked from Jade Park, then grocery shopping, then diving back into the rewrite of the story I’m resubmitting this week: 1. Spell my name as it sounds: Goard Seller. 2. Am I a worrier? Yeah, but I’m trying to cut back on it....
Read more →A few nights ago, when I started writing this, I was in my room in Vientiane, wondering whether I should go to the North-Korean restaurant Pyongyang for dinner. It was rather far off, and I’d already wandered around a fair bit that day, but curiosity, oh but it niggled. I didn’t end up going,...
Read more →Whew. That was like birthing a… well, I don’t know about birthing, to be honest, but “Winter Wheat” is the biggest piece of writing I’ve ever sent out, and it took me ages to get it ready. Every time I looked at it, there was something screaming to be added, squirming to be adjusted,...
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