Date: 2008-02-01 10:16 Subject: Ways to make a fortune, #25 Security: Public

We ordered some sonic mouse repellent devices to try to get rid of our persistent mouse problem. They arrived today. They are, supposedly, safe to use with dogs.

They are also, according to the packaging, inaudible to humans.

We plugged them in.

Okay, so how am I supposed to know if they're working? I can't hear them at all. For all I know, they could just be empty plastic boxes.

Someone is on to a good thing here.

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Date: 2008-02-01 16:36 Subject: Reprint sale, and target! Security: Public Tags: novel, podcast, progress, sale, uncle vernon's lie

First up, I've sold a reprint of "Uncle Vernon's Lie" to the new podcast zine, clonepod. This is very cool! Clonepod is fronted by three middle-school students, and I love that they're being so active in promoting short science fiction and fantasy. This is what the field really needs. So, I'm really happy that I'm going to get podcast there.

Uncle Vernon's Lie was first published in Realms of Fantasy in 2006, and last year it was reprinted online in Serendipity (read Uncle Vernon's Lie here). With a podcast, I reckon I've got all the media pretty much covered (unless someone wants to make a movie out of it...)

At the moment it looks like it'll be podcast in March, so not too long to wait!

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My birthday is on 20th February (hooray!), and I've decided to use it as a target. My aim is to write 1,000 words a day on the current 'Dragons of Mars' novel (that's probably not the title it's going to keep, due to the lack of dragons so far) every day until my birthday. That should give me a nice 20k words in less than three weeks.

I doubt I'll actually write 1,000 a day, but I'm hoping that'll be the average. No doubt I'll do fewer on my work days and more on my days off. So, because I've finally figured out how to do these little progress meters that everyone else has been doing (look at the source code! (then add an ALT attribute, cos it ain't valid otherwise...)), I'm going to use one of these. In fact, I'm going to do two. One for the novel as a whole and one for the immediate target.

'Dragons of Mars' progress:



Target 1 progress:



Okay, that's not the best start for the target, but the day's not over yet... :)

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