Noticing Various Events
September 9, 2010 in Blogs
Twice each week I announce the publication of a new temporal anomalies article at The Examiner. Today’s entry discusses the ramifications of using time travel to bring future winning lottery numbers to the past and so win the lottery. Is it cheating? Is it possible? Henry does it, as we examine in The Time Traveler’s Wife part 10: make your own luck.
I also sent out notice today of the annual Valdron stockholder’s meeting to all stockholders whose e-mail addresses were finally delivered to me yesterday by our previous secretary. The list is woefully incomplete, because many of our stockholders have never given us their electronic addresses and never notified us that they required surface mail notifications of meetings. If you are a stockholder and you do not receive notice of the meeting (which will be held next Saturday, September 18th), please drop me a note somehow somewhere with your e-mail address so I can get the details to you.
In other news, I’ve nearly finished another installment in the Adapting series, but I am thinking to delay its publication. The problem is that it would be three science fiction settings out of three articles, which really bucks the odds given that most of the books in the batch I was given were fantasy. I have done a lot of work on one of those fantasy books, so I’m thinking that I will resequence the articles to bring this magic and pirates story out first, and then return to the futuristic planetary uprising almost completed. That decision is not final, however, at least until I see how much work I have to do on the fantasy book once I’ve compiled my notes.
That should keep one of us busy–unfortunately, it’s probably me, but if you’ve got time to read the time travel articles, I would appreciate that. Since I’ve started the series on The Time Traveler’s Wife I’ve been beating the average for Arts & Entertainment writers, and that in itself is encouraging quite apart from the slight increase in income it represents. Hopefully if I manage to get Hot Tub Time Machine ready to go when this one is finished I’ll keep up the numbers.
–M. J. Young