"Publishing has been considered, like the wine trade, an occupation permissible for gentlemen, perhaps from the fallacy that the most necessary qualification was an appreciation of literature. In fact, then as now, a publisher, to achieve success, needed charm, financial acumen, a foreknowledge of the future, a stony heart , and a very rich wife."
Rurari McLean, Victorian Book Design
Presentation. Rent. Me, freaking out...a... Read More
Hey man, I'm really excited to hear about the plans that you and Totten have for the newswire. Having Susannah Breslin posting here will be really cool, and having Wil Wheaton would be huge as well. Good luck with everything...
I've been preparing for managing this project. I've reset a ton of my RSS feeds, I have been backlogging stories, and I've been watching editors. I've also adjusted the sleep schedule and have been writing editors.
I'm very, very excited, nervous, and pensive.
I hope timmy remembers to pick me up something from the store.
I too am looking forward to this. SG means a great deal to me, and having an opportunity to give something meaningful back is not something I'll be passing up lightly.
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across... Read More
It is a mixture of a lot of amazing things that sets a tone. I usually hate the summer; it gets me very depressed. All of my Oregon clothes are sweaty and smothery and don't fit with everyone around who is 4/5 naked. The light, which is normally diffused by overcast sky and temperature/humidity, no longer makes things... Read More
Good luck with your book. That sounds like a daunting task.
[Edited on Jun 07, 2005 6:12PM]