Quote of the Day

A person feels good listening to Rossini. All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland.

-Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

Note: I know perfectly well this is vastly unfair to poor Ludwig von B., who was a pacifist. I just thought it was funny.

My tweets

• Sun, 17:13: Just bought a Bugatti Veyron in GT5. "Obscenely fast" is insufficient to describe it.
• Sun, 18:18: Gamera is really neat/Gamera is full of meat!
• Mon, 09:41: Quote of the Day http://j.mp/qcTnoU

Fic: Promises Broken

Based off some discussions with chaypeta about the future plot of her Terinu comic.

( Cut for hints of spoilers )

NASA Manga

How do you explain the principles of a NASA satellite's science package to schoolkids when the subject is pretty much a thing only a physicist could love? Turn the science package into a cute android girl with two "space dogs" and put her in a comic book.

Adventures in E Publishing - International Edition

As my second month selling on Amazon comes to a close, I checked the buttons for sales out of Amazon.uk and Amazon.de. Turns out I've made two sales unexpectedly on Captive of the Red Vixen at Amazon.uk, though no one has bitten on the others yet, not even Good Landing, which is still a freebie. No bites at all at Amazon.de, though that shouldn't be too much of a surprise. It's questionable whether I'd get many sales there, given I'm an unknown author writing in English.