Why did the most famous of (fictional) musketeers so rarely show up with muskets? Some have suggested they might have been “afraid” of muskets, but “fear” is not the answer. Let’s look at the military history. In the first half of the 1600s (when the Three Musketeers are depicted, when Cardinal Richelieu was destroying things), Read More…
Reorganization, And Other Delights
Reorganization began last year with my office. This year the amazing Kate (who has helped me do what I couldn’t on my own, and also untangled tech problems that I couldn’t do that either) accomplished three times as much in several months, while I worked on my writing (mostly) and she did the heavy lifting Read More…
The Train Is Moving
Or, as Agent says, “it’s out of the starting blocks.” The “it” and the “train” are the first Horngard book, start of a new LONG story in Paksworld. I know many of you wanted the third Vatta’s Peace book, but several attempts to write that one failed. It would not jell. And for a longer Read More…
Writing: From Character to Plot
Last October, I suddenly lost all my files because of a) a new computer which lacked something all my others had had, a dedicated data disk and b) failure of the backup device I was using instead. This post is not about computer stuff and that’s all I’m going to say about it. This is Read More…
Crosspost from Paksworld Blog: Blades
There’s more about the picture below at this link: http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=3058. Just in case someone on the SF side has a latent lust for swords as well as blasters.
Road Construction Ahead (Website & Blog Roads, that is.)
This is a “long-advance” warning, but the main website, elizabethmoon.com, will be in re-design for some undetermined part of the next year. I don’t know how long it will take, or exactly what it will look like in the end (aside from knowing that no web design ever gets 100% approval from those who visit Read More…
First Chili of Fall
The first chili of fall was actually last week, when we had a cool spell and I made chili for HouseGuest KS-, who documented it with her camera so she could make it up in upstate NY. It was good, but as always when I haven’t made it for awhile, the next batch is better Read More…
Off to the Races
After considerable work on the Horngard I, so it now has a new beginning, new ending, and a lot of shuffling, trimming, correction of this that and the other in the middle, it’s off to Agent. Sorry about the long lapse in posting here, but later August and all of September were a wild scramble Read More…
Joys of Research
I was goofing off (bad writer, but I wrote until well after midnight last night, so stale to start this morning) and ran across the latest show-offy & disgusting post by Trump about his upcoming visit to the Fulton County Jail to get “arrested for having the audacity to challenge a rigged and stollen (his Read More…
Supreme Court Ethics: a Political Post
Justice Alito insists that no one can impose an ethics policy on the Supreme Court (certainly not Congress) because the Constitution doesn’t give anyone the power. This is such a self-serving position in the face of rampant corruption and dishonesty, on the Court that it’s worth looking closely at what the Constitution says. Article III, Read More…