Fake Facebook profiles (featuring China Miéville)
EDIT: Facebook has now removed the fake profiles. Really, this was a ridiculous amount of trouble for China to have to go through, though, and he reports that he has still never heard from Facebook...
View ArticleMissing email
Hi, all. I wanted to let you know that I just last night discovered the existence of a web-based spam filter on my email. Because I never use web-based email, I had no idea that my ISP had it in place....
View ArticleVeterans Day
I’ve been thinking about losses today–mine and those of other families. My dad, whom I miss so much, died at 56 from cancer caused by the Agent Orange he was exposed to in Vietnam–he worked on planes...
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Gator
Would you like to see a picture of the gator that was sunning at the pond near my house today? I often see gators and a variety of birds when I’m out unicycling. (I’ve been riding about three miles a...
View ArticleRenovation WorldCon
So I know it’s early for the question I’m about to ask, but I’m turning a significant number of years old next year (45, as a matter of fact) and would like to celebrate the occasion with my friends in...
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Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
I spent a glorious afternoon yesterday hiking in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and took photos until my camera ran out of battery power. I’m unfortunately not the best photographer in the...
View ArticleWords and sounds
I often become enamored of certain words I see while copyediting, and the latest comes from China Miéville’s novel Embassytown, which I’m working on now: panjandrum. I love it when the sound of a word...
View ArticleCopyediting compliments from Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One
I’m incredibly fortunate in having a job I truly enjoy, and I never feel more so than when I get to copyedit a book that is exciting and touches on my interests and that I find difficult to put down,...
View ArticleInterview with WoW Insider
I’ve mentioned before that I play World of Warcraft. Those of you interested in that side of me might like to check out the interview that WoW Insider’s Lisa Poisso posted with me yesterday. It was a...
View ArticleCMS, Novels, and Formal Writing
It’s been a while since I came out with a copyediting post, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the usefulness of The Chicago Manual of Style (henceforth CMS, as it’s known in the industry) for...
View ArticleLocus Spotlight on Deanna Hoak
I am hugely delighted and honored to announce that Locus, “The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field,” has a “Spotlight” interview with me in their August 2015 issue. I talk about what...
View ArticleNew Word Proposal
I’ve coined a word that English actually needs, and I wanted to share it. Paradoxynyms: These are words that seem as though they would be antonyms, but are actually synonyms instead, such as...
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