Sundry items

1. There's a short interview with me up at Grinding to Valhalla.

2. Serendipitously, I have found an example of omniscient which involves switching PoV within a paragraph and yet is quite distinct from head-hopping. These are the opening lines of Georgette Heyer's The Toll-Gate:

The sixth Earl of Saltash glanced round the immense dining table, and was conscious of a glow of satisfaction. It was an emotion not shared by his butler, or his steward, each of whom had served the Fifth Earl, and remembered, with a wealth of nostalgic detail, the various occasions upon which the State Dining-room had been used to entertain Royalty, foreign Ambassadors, and ton parties of great size and brilliance.

The entire first chapter is told in this panoramic omniscient, moving from viewpoint to viewpoint, and she does it with beautiful smoothness.

3. Even more serendipitously, as I was writing item #2, I got email telling me that another interview is live, this one at Suite 101.

4. When I went to sleep around midnight last night, the Elder Saucepan was loafed on my hip. When I woke up at 6:25 this morning . . . the Elder Saucepan was loafed on my hip. My inference is that there's about six hours in there where I didn't move.

It is perhaps not to be wondered at that I'm feeling a little stiff this morning.

5. The Wii keeps trying to use me against mirrorthaw. I find this highly objectionable--although not as objectionable as the house centipede that was lurking up near the ceiling in the corner behind the TV last night.

FOC_U's Shatter the Silence Day

Nalo Hopkinson has posted a brilliant essay about being a person of color in the SF community as part of foc_u's effort, both protest and celebration, to increase the visibility of people of color within SF fandom.