John and I got married twenty-three years ago today! Last night, we celebrated in our usual fashion–by going to the bookstore, sharing a piece of cheesecake, and having a frappuccino.   He is such a delightful husband. May all of you be blessed with spouses as wonderful!  

Here is an article about how the artwork for Prospero Regained is up for a Chesley Award. I was delighted to see that the site picked this cover for their art for the article.

This was the first year of school that was a success for all the children.   No one spent the year in the principal's office.   (You may laugh, but that happened in previous years–to two different children!)

Every now and then you see something that just strikes you as a new way of looking at the world. The irony of this poster really struck me.  

If you were going to use a light tablet sized thing for writing, what would you buy?   In particular, for wrtiing notes while away from home.

  Here, for people's viewing pleasure, are the first two chapters of The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin: Chapter One: The Unexpected Benefits of Remembering Chapter Two: The Treacherous Art of Making Friends    

Fellow writer, Rosemary Edghill and her co-author Mercedes Lackey will be going on a blog tour for their new book: Dead Reckoning. We may even convince them to drop by here. In the mean time, here is a link to Rosemary's  blog that has a list of her tour dates.  http://rosemary-edghill.dreamwidth.org/  

I'm wearing my Guangzhou Starbuck T-shirt today. A friend commented on it. He then said jokingly something like, "What does it say in Chinese at the bottom there? Stupid Westerner?"   I glanced down and read: China Guangzhou — in Chinese.   I can only read five chinese words. Those happened to be two of…

The lovely Juliet Winters wrote: "My husband has made accessible his superhero novella, Bulletproof, available through Kindle/Amazon. Possible to put the Kindle reader on a basic PC. It's dirt cheap at 99 cents. Sample pages available to freely read." http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B007YKA4W8/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_eos_detail "What makes Steve a little bit different from other folks who might do this: he's…

If you have read Count to A Trillion and noticed any mistakes, please let John know or post them here. John is trying to correct them for the paperback.