My Ice Age time travel novel serialization begins now with Part I appearing in the July/August issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. If you follow my stuff, this is a must read. Incidentally, this story required more research in obscure areas than any story I previously published.
Bluebird at Antietam
As the mysterious Regina and I were touring some battlefields in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, I had a bit of a heart episode. Weakness at Malvern Hill, ran out of air and acquired chest pain at Antietam, and the damned wheels came off at Gettysburg. After a night in the Carlisle Hospital, the cardiologist sent us home to my own pump doc who promptly stuck me in the hospital where they found one of my arteries was 90% plugged. Thanks to the Ninth Floor gang at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, four days later I was out with groin pain and a new stent (little metal thingy that props open an artery).
No problems with the heart thing, but the swine flu hitting at the same time was a concern. I had the flu twice this past season, and that's enough. Hence, we wash, we wipe, we cover, and every square inch of exposed skin is repeatedly disinfected. So, there I was at a meeting sitting next to Typhoid Mary, she sneezed, and now I have a cold. While recovering from that, I'm going through the photos and materials I collected for my Civil War mystery, Traitor's Walk.
The picture is of a bluebird who posed for me at the Mumma Cemetery at Antietam. The place was thick with bluebirds. Spring is here and I'm still ticking. Hope you are the same. bbl
Another free breakfast
AUSTIN TX. This time we traveled to Texas, which is always a treat. A really great bunch hosted the Nebula con and there were many fine conversations with old friends and new. Dell Magazines bought breakfast. The effort to the left is what the mysterious Regina got from our first day with a new digital camera.
The AnLab reader's best novella award was for my Jaggers & Shad mystery, "Murder in Parliament Street." This is the second story in the series so honored. The first was "The Good Kill," which received the AnLab Award for Best Novella the previous year. The future of the series is now in the hands of the book publishers. See: Q&A.
