So really, nothing new came out of last nights 97 minutes of Debate.  If you liked one guy going in, you are likely to still like him coming out.  A few Independents came out with a clearer view of who they most closely relate to, but I don’t think there was anything to be dancing [...]

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How do I know fall is here?  Not by looking at the calendar.  Not by the weather outside (although the temperature has dropped to a delicious mid 60’s this morning).  But by the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte I had for breakfast.
These things are sinfully yummy.  I’ve had 4 in the last 10 days.  At nearly [...]

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The last iTunes update included Genius.  It’s taken me almost a week after I installed it to getting around to using it, but it is a very wonderful thing.
Pick any song, and iTunes will attempt to build a playlist around that from your music library.
Today, I was in a funky I-don’t-know-what-to-listen-to mood. So I picked [...]

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I’m over at Beyond The Veil today, talking about toys.  Stop by and leave a comment by next Wednesday (or drop me an email at ember@embercase.com with Toy Giveaway in the subject) to enter a book giveaway – six yummy paranormal books that I put together from my San Francisco trip.

It’s a rainy [...]

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The good – Tor has brought back their free ebooks. “To download these and upcoming freebies, all you have to do is register at Tor.com.” This week has two books I haven’t read yet.
Will Shetterly and Emma Bull are the first married couple to each simultaneously have a novel among the finalists [...]

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There’s a stain on my library ceiling.  This stain is from a leak, that led to a new roof, a project that was finished six months ago.  But I haven’t painted the ceiling yet.
Today I’ve been fixated on that stain.  Every time I sit down at my laptop, all I can see is that stain, [...]

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We’re home from a whirlwind 48 hours in NY. It was a fantastic, exhilarating, wonderful, amazing, and exhausting trip. There is no city I’ve ever been to that is quite like NY. There’s great, and there’s bad, and there’s some in between.
I’ve got two hours paperwork to get through, then [...]

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Kick A$$ Characters By Authors Who Know How To Kick A$$ September 12-13 at Romance Divas
Featuring: Bob Mayer Lori Avocato Maggie Price Lindsay McKenna Barry Eisler Linnea Sinclair Larissa Ione Merline Lovelace Want to know how to [...]

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Possibly thanks to the magic of Google Alerts?  A comment on my last post lets me know that I do not, after all, need to update Windows Live Writer. 
On Monday (September 1, 2008) the Technical Preview of Writer started erroneously triggering expiration for October 1, 2008.  We have fixed the issue that was causing [...]

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I needed to focus on writing for a few days.  I’ve had little progress this year, and I’ve started viewing what should be a happy time of the month – royalty check time – with more guilt than joy.   Because I know that those checks are going to keep getting smaller if I don’t get [...]

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