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Last chance to praise Spartacus AND his ass!

David Williams — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:12:20 +0000

What a week! I was a little worried about swine flu, until I realized that all it kills are humans. And it’s not like I ever get near pigs anyway. In fact, I don’t even know what a pig is. Hopefully it doesn’t resemble those fake mice I like to chase, because then maybe this could start to get a little hairy. Kinda like those things I love to cough up on Dave’s bed.

But before that happens, we need to wrap up last week’s contest. Don’t pretend like you forgot, either. My sources indicate that there are STILL some humans out there who (a) haven’t died a miserable swinish death and (b) have yet to praise me. You’ve got till the sun sets today to do so, in order to win your copy of the Spanish translation of MIRRORED HEAVENS! Again, the rules:

1. Send an email to djw@DAVEHATESPAMautumnrain2110.com, subject line “Cielos Reflajdos”

2. Praise me—aka Spartacus the Wondercat—and don’t be shy!

3. So far the best entry is a 30 page equation proving mathematically that cats are the highest form of life on this planet.

4. But I think you can beat that by just saying something nice and sincere.

5. Or you can lie.

Ok? Ok. The sun’s still in the sky, so GET TO WORK HUMANS!!

The winner will be announced Monday. In the meantime, why not pre-order THE BURNING SKIES on Amazon?

Wrapping up the week/book two

David Williams — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:27:33 +0000

Sorry for the low profile these last few days, but I have now sent in all the changes to the BURNING SKIES manuscript except for one sentence that I intend to spring on my unsuspecting editor once I’ve mulled it for another 24-48 hours. (It’s a long story.) Thoughts/news in the meantime:

—Can you believe that two satellites collided? Rest assured that’ll be the first “incident” on many future timelines.

—Tony Smith over at Starship Sofa has declared MIRRORED HEAVENS his book of the month! I don’t know what’s cooler, hearing him wax poetic about the book’s opening, or hearing him wax poetic about the book’s opening in that groovy Scottish accent. Check it out, it’s at 1:24 on this—though as per usual from Tony, the whole episode is great.

—Spartacus (who is now far more popular than me) will be allowed no more soft food until I can get him into the vet.

—BURNING SKIES is going to blow your #$# minds.

ComicCon trophy

David Williams — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:43:14 +0000

Spartacus the Cat here! I’m back while Dave frantically works on the proofs for BURNING SKIES. He took a day out for ComicCon in NYC on Saturday, leaving at 7 in the morning and getting back well after midnight. I found this annoying, so I had a little “accident” on the rug. Harharharhar. Now he’s afraid to leave the house.

Anyway, he did all sorts of things up there, like signing copies of MIRRORED HEAVENS and meeting cool people; I’m sure he’ll tell you all about it, but he also brought me back a new friend! I’d like you to meet Rex the Lion. Rex is from www.squishable.com, which is run by a guy who used to row alongside Dave back in the corporate slave galley. I know Rex looks so realistic he’s probably fooled you into thinking he’s a real lion, but I have a very acute sense of smell so I know he isn’t. But he’s still fun to have around. We spent the morning talking about how to get down the fire escape and meet some of the female alley cats. Meantime, I think I might have an accident on his head to show him who’s boss.