Well my trip to Phoenix wasn't a total bust.  I found another book on The Salem Witch Trials called In The Snare of The Devil.  Of course everything  that has to do about witches features the word "Devil"...listing on Amazon.com!!  It's not purchaseable yet as I am trying to fix the cover of it so the picture is larger looking.  But you can still see it there all the same! Well that's it from here! Chris

...and can't catch another train for a couple of hours, so here I am in Birmingham at an internet cafe, having a rather splendid time. And this actually works out perfectly because I needed to research this area, so now I have time to do it properly! Based on my limited internet research I had been led to believe that Birmingham New Street station and the area around it was a bit of a dump...

... Ridiculous. I'm more than certain that all of these shenanigans that I've been hearing of this past week were due to the devices of our own people. The murderer aside, the others should ... [Anyone's free to notice her walking though, as she seems to be leaving the library, holding a few books and various notes. She's walking a bit better, though not as well as she could be.]

...done. The only reason i'm sticking around right now is because my plane doesn't leave till weds. Kind of silly, but whatever. This semester should be a good one for me. I'll get to have time to do research and take classes. I'll be applying to graduate school and studying for the GRE. I'll be able to relax with my friends and spend my weekends balancing time between studying and having fun. And...

A Little Bit of Science... by Kate Paulk ...makes your fantasy go round. In my experience as an as-yet-unpublished fiction author and a member of several critique groups, one of the biggest mistakes...of "how things work" rather than decrees from On High and if the rest of a fantasy world follows the laws of science, then the magic had better do so too. Read on at A Little Bit of Science...

...(nobody else really wants it), but it was really starting to be stupid that we have a paid webmaster yet no updates since February. AND... You know how when you're reading and note-taking for a research project, and you hit this certain point where you know you don't have the "magic string" to hold all the stuff in your head together yet, and you keep thinking that serendipity will kick in and...

...and found this little gem.  Had to share it, because really, I can't think of anything that's ever made me go "YES!!!!  FINALLY, someone else who thinks like this!!!!!!" Very cool posting about research in fanfics [/fangirl idiocy] For anyone waiting on my Bad Girls fic, I apologize for the delays - a semi-PWP and the second part of Doors will hopefully be finished after I get off work tonight...

Now that's what I call a subject line! This is to follow up on a couple of conversations I had at xcorvis 's wine tasting. Alas, I cannot remember who wanted to know what, and I forgot to include...place where you can try to notify the distributors to stop sending you phone books. This is still in the early stages and it's not a national registry, so your mileage may vary . Via Lifehacker

An Australian researcher has won an international prize for her plan to wrap a giant asteroid with reflective sheeting to stop it colliding with the earth and destroying all life. http://www.smh.com...body (of the asteroid) so more of it is reflected ... and it actually acts to move it away from the sun and the earth." --Innovative thinking, once again not from SF writers. Come ON, you dweebs