I am a man who likes his routine. I’m proud of it, and I have grown used to it. I make make changes in my life, but on a daily basis things run pretty much to plan. I get up, make coffee, feed the dog, empty out the dishwasher, open a diet Coke, take my […]

I’m on my 2nd agent now (hi, Janet!) The first agent fell into the “I want a blockbuster” category. He sold my first 2 anthologies, but then I sold Who Was That Lady? and Atomic Renaissance on my own as well as Intent to Sell.
I was able to get an agent based on my […]

Well, being the math teacher I am, today is pi day. Of course, being a math geek, that means to me that it’s March 14th (or 3.14 to the uninitiated.)
Since I’m up to my ears in school stuff because of today, my post is going to be very very short.
To answer Casey’s post, it […]

Sigh, it’s about time for that yearly ritual of messing up my sleep patterns. That’s right, daylight savings time starts this weekend. For the next 2 weeks, I’ll be wanting to stay up later and get up later, even though my job frowns on that. My poor brain does not understand all the requirements of […]

Today is Leap Year Day, February 29th. Unlike most holidays, this one only happens every four years, the day that they added to the calendar to make things even out. The world had operated under the Julian calendar for centuries, only to find it was too long. The US adopted the new calendar in 1752 […]

We here at the Little Blog are discussing get additional spam protection for our site, because of the amount of spam we’re receiving on a regular basis. The matter started slowly at first. We received the generic spams for drugs and porn. Fortunately, those always had 10-20 URLs in them and were easily caught by […]

I honestly don’t know how those plains people used to do it. Go into a hut, and stay for months, buried under the ice and snow until spring. No contact with the outside world and no activity.
I’ve been off for 2 days now for snow, and I’m about to run out of things to […]

There’s one day that never gets old no matter how many times I experience it. On Wednesday, I opened the door to the UPS man. While I chased down the puppy who has now learned to master stairs, I chatted with him about dogs and such. I really didn’t pay attention to the box […]

Every year around this time, I dread opening my mail. In between the junk and the magazines, there are tax forms galore. Royalties, 1099s, expenses, and worse. From time to time, I’ll dream about writing “return to sender” on all of them and leaving the country.
I don’t think that Mr. 1040-EZ really ever knows […]

Well, in a weak moment, we decided to get another dog. We’ve been so lonely after our poor little Ellery passed away 3 weeks ago. The house was just too quiet. No one was sniffing my feet while I tried to read, and I ate all of my sandwiches, which meant I had gained weight. […]