The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

That’s what an annual subscription to Literary Marketplace goes for. Or $19.95 per week.
There is a free subscription option that gets users access to mailing addresses for agencies, but that is information is useless without info on what/who the agency represents.
And to think an e-rejection from Lippincott Massie McQuilkin was the source that led me [...]

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I believe I have now just about exhausted the ‘big names’ in literary representation. There are two agents who never bothered to reply to my e-queries (one reason I hate e-queries is their tendency to languish unresolved in the ether).
So, I’m reduced to the Guides — the directories of literary agents full of dubious contact [...]

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Well, the swelling and pain in my arm have decreased by the day, and I am no longer wearing the sling. Hence, I can type two-handed!
I have an appointment to get radiated again tomorrow, so I’ll know then how the healing has progressed.
Yipee!

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OK, so the author of this article over at Wired is a bit of a curmudgeon, and he offers no real solutions, but he makes some interesting points about the lack of civility of Internet culture:
Before you can expect a bunch of utterly spoiled, self-indulgent bloggers (i.e. the kind who indulge in their [...]

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The wonderful absurdity of the Internet:
In an attempt to make her character stronger in the online game of World of Warcraft, a woman has prostituted herself. Yet another sign as to how consuming the online game has become.
In a posting on Craigslist on 4/8/07, the player stated that if someone were to transfer 5000 gold [...]

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English may be dominant for now, but for how long?

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I am typing this with one hand, so please forgive my brevity. I broke my arm Fri. night. I sort of pitched forward off my front steps after slipping off the top one. (No, I wasn’t drunk. No, it wasn’t icy or even wet.)
Anyway, I’m in a sling, so posts are likely to be slow [...]

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Kathy Sierra, author of Creating Passionate Users, has been getting death threats.
As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I’m not. I’m at home, with the doors locked, terrified. For the last four weeks, I’ve been getting death threat comments on this blog.
This [...]

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Apparently, you are. According to this article in the Guardian.
It is generally agreed that we are more bored today than ever before. Some surveys put the percentage of people who yearn for more novelty in their lives at around 70% and rising. As the scholar Lars Svendsen explains in his book, A Philosophy of Boredom, [...]

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