Lynne Simpson

My friend and former coworker Francesco Francavilla will be at Booth #55 in the art show at Dragon*Con. His four-issue comic, The Black Coat, was published this year, and you can see his artwork online at his web site and his sketch blog. One of the things I enjoyed most about my last software development [...]

Those of you who've met me in person know how thick and unruly my hair is. I had it cut just before RWA National this year, but due to the humidity and my reluctance to break out the flat iron, my hair practically needed its own ZIP+4. (I hate flat irons.) Well, things took a [...]

An Ancient Muse will be Loreena McKennitt's first CD since the tragic loss of her fiancé in a boating accident in 1998. On September 13th through 15th, she'll be performing at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. The performances will air on PBS in July 2007. I own every CD Loreena McKennitt has ever produced, and [...]

We've had the DVD for Sweet Home Alabama sitting on the shelf for over a year, and we finally decided to watch it last night. It's a sweet movie. We were both pleased to find that it had a few surprises while avoiding some standard clichés. (It didn't avoid ALL of them, of course, but [...]

I've added the script for LibraryThing to the lower left corner of the blog page, but I don't know if I'll keep it, because their site is experiencing some technical issues which make this page slower to load. If things don't speed up in a few days, I'll remove the code until LibraryThing's performance improves. [...]