Tad Williams

7/26/09

Had a neat idea for a webcam site. Cameras deep in the wild places. Then people could watch these live places daily, and through the seasons – like watching puppycam.

Everyone’s a bit nervous about going to New York soon. We’ve got people staying in the house. I don’t need to worry about that or the dogs or what-not. The kids n Tad hopefully don’t need to worry about the plane flight. But we’re all blinking at the thought of being shaken out of our nest.

Here’s Tad’s schemata for the Fault Line at Ordinary Farm.

Here’s a skyline – specifically, the Winchester Mystery House in the early 1900s – that I used as a visual for the house at Ordinary Farm.

Here are my kids, waving at you from what is now a long while back…

7/14/09
Tad has a sea monkey he calls Riley. He’s perpetually getting trapped in the plastic trees in the sea monkey bowl and Tad has to blow him out with a little plastic tube. Riley, of course, was our autistic cat who compulsively climbed unclimbable trees then had to be got down from them.

Email/Matt Bialer 7/15/09
So if the e-book is the new paperback, what if all the publishers were to get together NOW like a union would, and decide a joint template to thwart Amazon with? Probably far too utopian a thought. Love, D

Ohio Players?

I stole these neat thoughts from an ancient (a few months back) piece in Publishers Lunch. They make such pretty aphorisms, they really do, which doesn’t mean I’m not going to take them seriously.

* Paradigmatic Transitions Are Not Orderly

* The Business Opportunities Around Writing and Reading Are Going to Change

* Publishing Confers Status Because the Physical Book Confers Status

* Don’t Fight the Things You Can’t Change or Control

* The Revolution Is In Reading