The girl with the glasses snapped her cellphone shut and excitedly informed the room: “She’s on her way!” The birthday girl was enroute! “Lily is going to be so surprised,”Glasses assured us. “Doubt it,”I murmured, checking the battery life on my camera. She threw me a look. “Why not?” “Well, for starters there’re all…

I‘ve always held that making it in this business takes 33% talent, 33% connections, 33% luck, and 1% miscellaneous variables. There are a lot of very untalented people who continue to work because they are either very lucky or well-connected, and then there are some very talented people who are not thriving or have yet…

  This morning, I received an email from Jeffrey Ford (http://14theditch.livejournal.com/), the author of this month’s fantasy selection: The Empire of Ice Cream. Jeffrey has kindly agreed to drop in and do a guest blog entry for us when the time comes. So go pick up a copy of the book and start reading. Discussion…

  One of my alternate yahoo accounts received an email from a Hajia Mariam, the widow of a Nigerian General, who was looking to for help in accessing the $12.6 million dollars her husband had left behind. Well, this was just the kind of offer Aloysius P. Hazzencockle was waiting for… “Dear Hajia, You have…

  The following email went out to Charles Saludo who contacted Baron Destructo about a hard-to-pass-up-on business proposal to the tune of $25.5 million dollars:  "Dear Suitable Candidate, Congratulations. $25.5 million dollars should just about cover your basic processing fee for consideration as a new member of The League of Aliens and Mutants for Evil.…

  Last night, we attended the Chef’s Table Society of B.C. Fundraising Dinner at Yaletown’s Elixir. And by we, I mean Marty G., his lovely gal Stephanie C., and myself. We arrived at about 6:15 p.m. to a fairly full house, fashionably late for the speeches but unbearably early for dinner. While Martin and Steph…

  I’m in the eye of the storm, that eerily calm period between putting out a Final Draft and receiving the network and studio notes. Although, really, “Final Draft” is a incredibly hopeful misnomer given that the Final Draft is never ever THE final draft. A quick glance at the title page of Broken Ties…

  “I’m surprised the dogs are still alive,”Fondy sarcastically murmured as she busied herself with the task at hand. I wanted to point out that, unlike the withered houseplants she was in the process of turfing, the dogs do a terrific job of reminding me whenever it’s time to feed them. “I can’t believe you…

Okay, I’m just going to come out and say what I’m sure everyone else is thinking. This daylight savings time thing is a bad idea. Sure, you can draw a line down the middle of a page and list all of the pros associated with setting your clocks ahead one hour on one side, and…

To be perfectly honest - I don’t care who is friends with who. I’m not particularly interested in joining a cause, flirting, rating a beer, or sending good karma. Nor do I want to know who is playing scrabbulous or blackjack, was sent a love bug, received a friendship rose, or is having their mind…

  “Holy Smokes, that’s a lot of drinking chocolate!”remarked Paul as he checked out the alluring assortment sitting on my coffee table. The box of Holy Chocolate: Every sip blessed arrived this morning compliments of Anne Teldy who wrote to thank me for the cumbersome SG-1 watch I sent her for being around my one…

  Congratulations go out to my wife who finally completed her course and will be heading back home sometime this weekend. Which means I’ve got to get things ready: throw out the garbage, clean out the fridge, recycle the recyclables, vacuum, clean the carpets, do laundry, wash and change the sheets, bathe the dogs, clean…