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Topic 697 was started on 2002-03-17. There are 67 messages available to read. You may also read 1 other topic started by Jamie Rosen

The silence in the bedroom was deafening. The sun rose, the sun set, and finally, a word was spoken.

But there was no one left to hear it.

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Message 67 was left by Mikal Trimm on 2003-05-17 16:16:37. Feedback: 0/0 Jamie-- Wyrdworm Wood--http://occultdetective.tripod.com/wyrd.htm Mikal

Message 66 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-05-09 23:56:45. Feedback: 0/0 I can tell. I know plenty of people with crappy jobs, and I know how I feel at the end of a day when my current job has been particularly rotten. I'd hate to have to deal with that every day.

Message 65 was left by Lori on 2003-05-09 17:50:40. Feedback: 0/0 Oooo, Jamie--I think this is a good decision. Having a crappy job just sucks everything out of you. law

Message 64 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-05-09 14:07:04. Feedback: 0/0 I wound up having to cancel the interview, as I couldn't get there from here (I don't drive, and would have had to walk along a busy stretch of sidewalkless highway-style bridge, doubtless setting off my not-quite-vertigo.) Which is just as well, as I don't think sales is really for me. I'm shifting gears from "apply anywhere I think will hire me" to "apply anywhere I think would be a good place to work." I'd rather get a good job in a month than a crap job tomorrow, especially since I already have my part-time survey job to tide me over. I'm scheduled to write the public service tests at the end of the month, anyway, and I'm confident that I'll do well on those -- got 82.5% on the sample on-line test.

Message 63 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-05-08 11:44:54. Feedback: 0/0 Thanks, Justin!

Message 62 was left by Justin on 2003-05-08 10:33:06. Feedback: 0/0 Fingers crossed!

Message 61 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-05-08 01:34:52. Feedback: 0/0 I've got an interview with UPS on Friday morning, for an entry level sales rep position. I have a bunch of resumes out as I prepare to get my degree (knock on wood), but this is the only one to have gotten back to me so far.

Message 60 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-04-24 10:58:48. Feedback: 0/0 Yer welcome, Jae.

Message 59 was left by Jae on 2003-04-24 10:06:37. Feedback: 0/0 Jamie - thanks for the heads up and recommendation of Ad-aware. I ran it last night and found all sorts of weird stuff. (I would thank Jaws too, but I don't know where his topic is)

Message 58 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-04-07 12:38:58. Feedback: 0/0 And today I received a copy of Vessel of Heaven in the mail. I didn't realize that it was going to be on a business-card style CD-R. Neat! The case is a little damaged (one hinge is missing), but the disc doesn't look any the worse for wear.

Message 57 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-03-18 22:13:40. Feedback: 0/0 I received a print of the cover of my book in the mail today -- signed by Hugo Award-Nominated artist Frank Wu! W00t! I'm going down the street tomorrow and getting this baby framed.

Message 56 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-03-04 15:49:49. Feedback: 0/0 My ebook is out! Yay! You can buy Vessel of Heaven from Jintsu Etexts here. And once again, thank you to Frank Wu for the absolutely loverly cover. I couldn't have asked for a better one.

Message 55 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-02-24 19:56:42. Feedback: 0/0 Thanks, Lori and Jae. I've gotten a pretty good "haul", if you will. From my friends: -- a set of four tiki mugs (for mixed drinks.... I don't drink, but I like tacky things.) Each one is carved with a goofy "tribal" face, and named things like "Larry." -- a big UFO encyclopedia (a strange gift, but I've gotten stranger. Such as the next one.) -- a Chinese take-out style lunch bag, with a cantaloupe inside. From my SO: -- a Scrabble dictionary, since she beat me 2 out of 3 times at Scrabble last weekend. -- a mysterious "rest of the present" I'll be getting tomorrow. From my family: -- Meat Beat Manifesto's new cd, RUOK?, and a 3" cd single from the album. -- Sonic Youth's Goo album, which I had on tape but not cd. -- a nice ivory-coloured sweater. -- some money -- WWE SmackDown!: Shut Your Mouth for the PS2 (a wrestling video game.) My friends and I went out on Saturday to celebrate. We went to Boston Pizza for dinner (I'd never been before), and then the nearby bowling lane for Rock'n'Bowl, a black-light-disco-ball-and-DJ bowling extravaganza. This has certainly been my most memorable and fun birthday in at least a year! :) (Seriously, though, it's been the best birthday of many recent ones.)"

Message 54 was left by Lori on 2003-02-24 13:49:05. Feedback: 0/0 Happy birthday, Jamie!

Message 53 was left by Jae Brim on 2003-02-24 12:55:39. Feedback: 0/0 Happy Birthday!

Message 52 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-02-24 12:53:25. Feedback: 0/0 Let's try that again. Vessel of Heaven is due out as an e-book from Jintsu Etexts in the very near future. It was announced as February, but I just got the final version to proof last night, so it may be early March. Today's my birthday. :)

Message 51 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-02-24 12:37:16. Feedback: 0/0 Vessel of Heaven is due out as an e-book from

Message 50 was left by Jae on 2003-02-24 11:26:48. Feedback: 0/0 Wow. Very cool artwork. Where's the story going to be?

Message 49 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-02-24 00:53:34. Feedback: 0/0 Lori, don't be jealous. Soon enough, I'm sure you'll have a print book with cover art by the Hugo Award Winning Frank Wu.

Message 48 was left by Lori on 2003-02-23 18:30:19. Feedback: 0/0 Ooooo, Jamie, I'm so jealous. Maybe someday I can have a story illustrated by The Hugo-Nominated Frank Wu. law

Message 47 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-02-23 13:59:42. Feedback: 0/0 Yay! Frank, I said it before, I'll say it again -- that is an excellent piece of work.

Message 46 was left by FrankWu on 2003-02-22 18:49:28. Feedback: 0/0 Jamie! Check it out - artwork for your "Vessel of Heaven" is done! Hurrah! http://www.frankwu.com/Vessel.html Frank

Message 45 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-02-08 11:51:01. Feedback: 0/0 I guess I should post this here too: Crossposted to Music You Can Write To: Just letting y'all know that I will be on the radio tonight at 11 pm Eastern. I will be cohosting Unease, a show on one of the local college stations (CHUO -- 89.1 FM in Ottawa, or streaming live [hopefully] at www.chuo.fm.) In addition to being a "celebrity guest host", I will be selecting tracks for a half-hour set. This is all to promote the show I'll be playing on February 17th at Bumpers here in Ottawa (as We v2), with Liar's Rosebush and Foil Circuit.

Message 44 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-01-11 11:53:38. Feedback: 0/0 Okeydoke. Message sent.

Message 43 was left by FrankWu on 2003-01-11 07:35:53. Feedback: 0/0 Hey Jamie - just letting me know what the mss is about in general will help, or what the gist of it is in one sentence, that will help immensely, as I haven't gotten the text yet from Roach. F

Message 42 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-01-10 22:35:31. Feedback: 0/0 Cool! Cover art by the Hugo-nominated artist Frank Wu! I'll send you an e-mail within the next day or two (possibly even tonight); I want to go over the mss and see if I can find passages I think are particularly evocative.

Message 41 was left by FrankWu on 2003-01-10 18:01:39. Feedback: 0/0 Jamie, Raechel asked if I'd be willing to do the cover art for your Vessel of Heaven, and I said - oh, yeah, baby! She hasn't sent the text yet. But I was wondering if you might have some ideas for what might be a cool image? If you want, you can send me an email at Qarlo999@hotmail.com F

Message 40 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-01-07 11:03:21. Feedback: 0/0 I'm really hoping too. Right now, I'm trying to figure out how my finances will work. Membership alone is the equivalent of two weeks' salary for me.

Message 39 was left by Lori on 2003-01-07 03:17:36. Feedback: 0/0 Jamie, you're going to Torcon, aren't you? law

Message 38 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-01-06 23:20:56. Feedback: 0/0 Thanks, Lori. I'll think about it. :)

Message 37 was left by Lori on 2003-01-06 21:46:27. Feedback: 0/0 Pretty cool, Jamie. Maybe you can write a sequel with socks. :-) law

Message 36 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2003-01-02 19:49:33. Feedback: 0/0 Thought I should mention in my own topic, as well as elsewhere, that my short story "The Solitary Loafer" is up at The Fortean Bureau. That's www.forteanbureau.com, if I boobed up the HTML. Y'all let me know what you think, 'k?

Message 35 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2002-12-23 21:05:08. Feedback: 0/0 Really? Hmm. Interesting... I wonder if anyone ever let Jeff Rovin know. (Of the Ultimate Guide to Nintendo Games series, where I got that information.)

Message 34 was left by Michael Greenhut on 2002-12-23 16:29:46. Feedback: 0/0 By the way Jamie, River City Ransom is beatable -- that fence you were talking about gave me pause at first, then I checked the faq and saw I hadn't encountered all the bossess so I went back and found them, finished them and then when I returned to the fence, the guard Ivan came out. I beat Ivan, went inside and went the rest of the way. No sweat.

Message 33 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2002-12-09 16:26:05. Feedback: 0/0 E-book update I heard from Raechel at Jintsu yesterday, and it looks like Vessel of Heaven will be slated for a February 2003 release, now.

Message 32 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2002-12-02 12:14:43. Feedback: 0/0 I just sold my feghoot "Incident at Gemini Branch #2402" to EOTU Ezine. You can browse around the magazine -- you really should, there are other good folks in it -- or jump right to my story here. (Crossposted to Shameless Self Promotion)

Message 31 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2002-12-01 08:32:42. Feedback: 0/0 Thanks, Terry and Lori. It feels great to be done, and the really surprising thing is that I think, with some polishing, it might actually stand a chance out there in the Big Bad World. I highly recommend it to anyone who isn't embroiled in a "real" novel when November rolls around next year. It certainly gets the juices going, and if -- like me -- you have a tendency to abandon things partway, it helps you get over that, at least temporarily. My only concern right now is that I may no longer be able to write one word when I could say the same thing in two or three. :)

Message 30 was left by Terry on 2002-12-01 00:21:48. Feedback: 0/0 Wow! You are AWESOME!

Message 29 was left by Lori on 2002-12-01 00:05:00. Feedback: 0/0 Yay, Jamie!

Message 28 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2002-11-30 22:10:08. Feedback: 0/0 I did it. I'm a NaNoWriMo winner! Fifty thousand words in November. My back aches, but what do I care? Hurrah. Sguidry, and any other WriMo/Millers -- how goes it?

Message 27 was left by Jamie Rosen on 2002-11-25 15:26:36. Feedback: 0/0 Hmm... I don't have any reliable references handy, so I'll just say that it's one of the more significant numbers out there, IIRC. At least in some circles.