The Gaven

Slashdot has an interesting link and discussion about a real-world test of driverless cars.  I’ve got them in my book.  They’re just one of several items of technology I wrote about in my book.

In The Gaven, I wrote about how people were able to be tracked by analyzing an individual’s urine.  I was told this wasn’t possible.  It is. In a study published in the current issue of The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers found that water samples from 33 cities across the United State could [...]

It’s been six months since I had any time to write down anything here.  There isn’t really any news on the novel.  I have been hard at work at my job that pays money and I work from 7am until 5pm.  I am also officially writing for The Daily Censored.  My other blogs, Rantings of [...]

It’s nearly time for the semester to end and for me to take a two week break from my job.  I’m looking forward to it.  My plans are the following: Find any spelling mistakes on my websites and fix them.  I’ve already been working on this, so it should be a short job. Send out [...]

I’ve received another comment from someone who read the book.  They only left their email, so I’m going to leave that out of my cut and paste. Feedback: The Mayan Long Count Calendar (I assume that’s the calendar you refer to in Chapter 1) ends in December 2012, not in 2015. Otherwise, I like the [...]

I had read about this sort of thing way back in 2004 and incorporated it into The Gaven.  Now, Toyota is making a good effort at making it real. Toyota Motor said Monday it was developing anti-drunk driving equipment that would lock the ignition of a vehicle if high levels of alcohol are detected in [...]

I’ve gotten back all of the queries to possible agents that I had sent out, all rejecting myself and the novel.  While the rejections were polite, it’s discouraging as well.  I’ve been trying to find an agent for two years now and, at the moment, it seems like it’s going nowhere.  I’m sure that, in [...]

In the past, I used to keep a very detailed, very personal and private, handwritten journal. I had them in several books that I thought I’d keep forever. Then, one day a couple of weeks ago I was flipping through them and though, “Holy hell! There’s no way I want anyone to ever know that.” [...]

Since the junior high school started back up on 24 August, I decided to put my down time at work to good use.  Due to the fact that my husband has to be at work sooner than me, I have 30 minutes in the morning and about 20 minutes at lunch to get some writing [...]

Okay, so I had a pity party for myself the other day and it was great.  Of course I felt real sorry for myself and told myself that I was really cool and screw it if publishing agents and agencies don’t like me. Then, I went back to work and sent out another two queries.  [...]