Tunes for Tuesday: Sugar Water

It's been a mellow kind of day, and this song fits that. The video is downright hypnotic.



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It's Feedback Time

Last night I passed my second draft around to a few folks, and today I'm as nervy as my cowardly cat. There are some aspects of the book that aren't as solid as I'd like, and I'm sure they'll uncover more for me to do. But I also know that it would have been very, very easy for me to huddle over the draft and polish it forever, and I needed a few fresh sets of eyes.

I'm still feeling a little self-conscious about the whole thing.

Note to Self

Here's a list of things that I shouldn't be doing instead of working on the last two chapters of my second draft:

• editing early sections that I've gone over a million times already
• posting on web forums about how people should read more Sabatini
• catching up on all those episodes of The Following on the DVR
• playing the new Mass Effect 3 content
• watching YouTube videos of scenes from Mass Effect 3
• reading wildly inaccurate blog posts about the news

The deadline that I'm coming up on may be self-imposed, but I'm still determined to meet it!

New and Upcoming Releases - Spring 2013

Here are some of the spring novels I'm interested in:



Lots of ongoing series stuff this time, but I think that's partly because a busy streak has left me with a little less time to pay attention to releases from new-to-me authors.

Is it Springtime Yet?

I'm notoriously bad with houseplants, which means I'm a little surprised that this gift orchid has survived its first month in my care. It's too early for me to feel confident of its long-term survival, but for now it's still a bright spot of color in the new apartment.

The last draggy weeks of winter are my least favorite time of year, so it's nice to have something blooming at me, reminding me that the cold, gray skies shouldn't last much longer.

Tunes for Tuesday: I Believe In a Thing Called Love

After yesterday's pulp valentine post, I realized that I somehow haven't shared this video yet. Normally I'm not that into music videos, but watching The Darkness hang out on their starship (and fight off a space octopus with the power of rock) sums up their appeal much better than any words can. We saw them live recently and the show was amazing.



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Make Retro Pulp Magazine Valentines

I can't stop playing with the Pulp-O-Mizer. With just a few clicks you can select a background, foreground, and pulp magazine style header. Then add and position text fields to create a wide variety of joke images about genre tropes or how it's twenty-freaking-thirteen already and we want our flying cars, damn it.

But if you'd like to feel as if playing with the shiny toy you found on the internet is at least slightly productive, try making e-valentines for your friends and loved ones. Make up goofy, romantic puns about science, or just use some lyrics from your valentine's favorite hair rock band, like so: