Monthly Archives: March 2009

Day two in Austin. Information hasn’t yet started bleeding out of my ears, but any day now. Halfway through this intensive training course and I feel like I’ve learned at least a handful of extremely useful things, along with the … Continue reading →

I’m spending four days in Austin at a training session for our new Customer Relationship Management software. 8:30 to 5:00 pm in a classroom for four days in a row. I can’t remember the last time I spent one full … Continue reading →

I received my on-signing payment for the new project yesterday. It’s always nice to get a check in this biz. The advance was split 50/50 between contract signing and final acceptance of the manuscript. None held over for “on publication,” … Continue reading →

It’s a good 40 degrees colder today than it was this time yesterday, when it was in the mid-80s. A cold front came through and with it, some much needed rain. However, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so … Continue reading →

I finished dealing with the editorial comments on my manuscript and delivered the revised text back to the editor today. She’s traveling somewhere tomorrow and wanted to have this in hand so she could read on the fly, so to … Continue reading →

Revealed in our May issue: The winners of the 2008 Readers Award! And the wide-ranging stories in this issue include a puzzling case of murder and “Identity Theft” for Jon Breen’s detectives Berwanger and Foley; a tongue-in-cheek snapshot of a … Continue reading →

I got back from Chicago last night, glad to be home as always. I spent a few hours at the PITTCON exhibit before taking the convention shuttle back to the hotel, checking out, walking to the red line, transferring to the … Continue reading →

Last night I watched the first four episodes of Breaking Bad, an AMC series about a high school English teacher who starts cooking crystal meth as a way of paying for his medical bills after he’s diagnosed with lung cancer … Continue reading →

The previews for this week’s C.S.I. announced that it would remind people why it’s the #1 program on television. In my opinion it did every bit of that. It may have been one of the best episodes of the program … Continue reading →

I received the marked-up manuscript from the editor yesterday, so I have until a week from today to turn in my revised version. It shouldn’t be that big of a job, but it doesn’t help that I will be traveling … Continue reading →