Author Archives: JE

1. I had a dumb frustration dream last night: went to the grocery store, couldn’t find a cart–that sort of thing; nothing worth blogging about. But there was one memorable line in it. A bunch of guys were standing around … Continue reading →

1. This would have been so cool! 2. This actually is cool, at least to my somewhat unbelieving eyes: the full jacket for Blood of Ambrose. (Dominic Harman blogs a bit about the process behind the cover here.) I like … Continue reading →

1. John Scalzi’s AMC column is about the long odds against any book being adapted into a movie. He couches it as bad news, but I don’t see it that way. In my feckless youth, I pined for my favorite … Continue reading →

I just posted my Blog Gate entry of the week. This one is about not beginning with the beginning, among other things.

I’ve been spending practically my entire working afternoon trying to record a two-minute intro for the Audible version of Blood of Ambrose, after a couple of days of false starts due to technical snafus. (Until this megillah started, I had … Continue reading →

From the “Not Everything True Is Useful” File: “Nancy Pelosi is not Haman, Barack Obama is not King Ahashuerus, and John Boehner is certainly not Queen Esther.”–Barney Frank So who, in this scenario, isn’t Mordecai? Rahm Emmanuel? Rush Limbaugh? I’m … Continue reading →

As a chaser to my “metacriticism” Blog Gate post: here’s Morgan Holmes on Blish/Atheling on Poul Anderson. I don’t think MH is really being fair to Blish, but then Blish wasn’t being fair to Anderson either. What comes around goes … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post for the week has gone up: some thoughts on rereading Le Guin’s The Language of the Night. There’s some interesting discussion going on around Judith Berman’s latest Blog Gate post about the practical issues of women … Continue reading →

My home state is apparently planning to invade Iran. I’m not sure what the casus belli is–possibly something about lutefisk, one of the few things that can cause a Minnesotan to leap off the twelve steps of rational sobriety and … Continue reading →