Tweephole #11
Posted by Meg
Follow along with Peat as he completes his final edits on The Daylight War.
- @PVBrett – Now get to work on their ’rounded rectangular phone’ patent. RT @nytimesbits Patent Office Overturns Apple Patent http://t.co/0dJm9y2o
- @PVBrett – And so my hopes are crushed. RT @nytimesbits Pogue: Surface Tablet Is Sleek Hardware, Weak Software http://t.co/QTo8kNcy
- @PVBrett – The world is full of awesome. RT @JohnAnealio Star Wars Scarecrows Win The Halloween Battle Hands Down http://t.co/Voovoikl
- @PVBrett – You’ll get the chance when I get ARCs in December. RT @KevinBranoff I would do great, terrible things for a copy of #DaylightWar.
- @PVBrett – Despite losing half an hour to a windows crash at 2:30am, I am up to pg 525 in the #DaylightWar copyedit. 340 to go!
- @PVBrett – About time. MT @PublishersWkly European commission on Luxembourg’s VAT rate to cut Amazon’s price advantage on e-books http://t.co/KBgo87F0
- @PVBrett – Even when properly used, I find the word “whom” looks snooty. #DaylightWar #copyediting
- @PVBrett – Make it so. RT @JohnAnealio Physicists demonstrate an actual tractor beam in the lab http://t.co/UIpAZ3Ts
- @PVBrett – Brain: Windows is unable to shut down due to a background program running. Pill bottle: Do you wish to force quit?
- @PVBrett – Been averaging 4hrs sleep a night trying to finish #DaylightWar copyedits. I think I am starting to unhinge.
- @PVBrett – Cassie & I built a pantyhose slingshot to launch her plush Hello Kitty. We call the game Angry Kitties.
- @PVBrett – Kids book?! “James was promptly flung across the room into the Old-Green Grasshopper’s horny lap.” -James & the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
- @PVBrett – Copyedit done. Acknowledgements done. Glossary done. #DaylightWar is done. *drops mike*
- @PVBrett – Zoning out looking at the amazing cosplay from New York Comic-Con. This dude is awesome: http://t.co/KHlVewCy
- @PVBrett – Cassie just watched The Last Unicorn sitting on my lap. Asked if she liked it. Cassie: “Yeah, but I didn’t like the Red Bull.” #nerdwin
- @PVBrett – Well earned. RT @GillianRedfearn Check your newspapers: Joe Abercrombie & RED COUNTRY on the bestseller list! Huge congratulations to Joe.
- Usually don’t tweet politics but… MT @ChuckWendig Joss Whedon endorses Mitt Romney. Let him tell you why. https://t.co/OP3zGo0G
- @PVBrett – My alt reality editor @Jess_Wade may become the real thing… RT @thebookseller Penguin/Random House merger confirmed: http://t.co/rY4VHrqQ
- @PVBrett – The sign language translator at the mayor’s press conference is friggin’ amazing. She is having a blast with her 15 minutes of fame.
- @PVBrett – Cookies don’t have calories if you eat them during a hurricane. #truefact
- @PVBrett – Holy crap. RT @ChrisHallbeck This baby has won Halloween, and my heart. http://t.co/Ey4KOoQ6
- @PVBrett – Love. RT @CityHallSigner http://t.co/1KQBeggr
- @PVBrett – Coolest thing ever. MT @AnneSowards Darth Vader doing anything besides being Darth Vader is hilarious: http://t.co/d0eH2rDR
- @PVBrett – Amazing to see the neighborhood rally for Trick or Treating after a rough week. Best was couple that told Cassie/Merida she “won Halloween”.
- @PVBrett – Dreamt last night I tried to hack @Mark__Lawrence‘s computer to read Emperor of Thorns, but got caught and Mark was PISSED.
- @PVBrett – My entry in @MykeCole ‘s Create a Coven contest: http://t.co/llzonrMi
- @PVBrett – Speaking of D&D being awesome … http://t.co/8gpZ5os9
- @PVBrett – Little-known fact: The pink thong panties @jimchines is holding in the closing credits of the author D&D video were a gift from @scalzi.
- @PVBrett – Guess I can’t review anymore. MT @PublishersWkly Amazon’s new review policy in an email to @steveweddle http://t.co/AZ8kA2n6
- @PVBrett – Walking down 57th st. after arduous trip in from Brooklyn. Wonder why street is suddenly empty. Look up. Oh, riiiight. http://t.co/6ERjvXCh
- @PVBrett – Just watched baker toss like 100 fresh sesame bagels right from a giant spatula into the bin. I want to swim in them.
- @PVBrett – Too many books, too little time.
- @PVBrett – Spent a few hours on the script for issue #2 of Red Sonja: Unchained, follow-up series to Red Sonja: Blue. Deadlines wait for no wind.
- @PVBrett – I tore into that veal chop like a friggin’ direwolf :http://t.co/nZEwIawa
- @PVBrett – Ancient wardpillar in Manhattan’s Central Park. Obviously dating back to the First Demonwar: http://t.co/X6vleDu6
- @PVBrett – There are a lot of people out there who don’t want you to go vote. Find time to do it, if only just to piss them off.
- @PVBrett – Voted. It didn’t even hurt!
- @PVBrett – Election, schmelection. Watch me on Storyboard with Pat Rothfuss, @MykeCole, @saladinahmed and Naomi Novik: http://t.co/gdbdrmFR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYqx3nwcpQ0
- @PVBrett – In other news, there will be a brief decline in porn production while they pack and move to Nevada: http://t.co/BKJDaKu1
- @PVBrett – To offset my giddiness seeing the 1st snow of the season, I went to http://t.co/6IcsCALu & donated to the mayor’s hurricane relief fund.
- @PVBrett – This SNL Lydia Callis skit is amazing: http://t.co/jAv0LgaI
- @PVBrett – We are tribe. RT @Mark__Lawrence I guess I could get a kindle and throw this lot away … http://t.co/goIk1iOu
- @PVBrett – Before: http://t.co/Ng303XPS After: http://t.co/5uRWqlXP
- @PVBrett – Awesome. RT @DeathStarPR “What is thy bidding, my Mouseter?” Darth Vader meets the new boss. (via @io9) http://t.co/ygTVNXvc
- @PVBrett – I have three projects of equal ‘need it last week’ urgency. Finding it hard to pick one to focus on.
- @PVBrett – ‘Fractured Attention’ should be the title of my indie comic.
- @PVBrett – ‘Twitter Steam Valve’ is the new title of my indie comic. It will be a moody B&W autobiography told entirely through select tweets.
- @PVBrett – Best tweet ever. RT @kkwrites Twitter Steam Valve? Sounds like a documentary filmed by a single camera, face-up, at the bottom of a toilet.
- @PVBrett – Tolkien is still my hero. RT @harikunzru 1938, Tolkien’s German publisher just wants to double-check he’s Aryan…http://t.co/esSrbotA
- @PVBrett – Me: “Eat your strawberries.”Cassie: “I can’t eat strawberries & spell words on the computer at the same time, Daddy! I’m not Dr. Octopus.”
- @PVBrett – Doing it right: http://t.co/t8uQbOVD
- @PVBrett – One of my readers just named his son Arlen. 6lbs 2oz, born Nov. 4, 2012. Welcome to the world, Arlen! It is full of awesome people.
- @PVBrett – Mineses! http://t.co/jwDmKfTL
- @PVBrett – I just saw an image that literally took my breath away. I can’t wait to share it with everyone.
- @PVBrett – Suck it, YOLO. RT @PublishersWkly Oxford American Dictionary names “GIF” word of the year http://t.co/mmSS6v4S
- @PVBrett – Well, shit. Can I get a choice C? http://t.co/RU87S43U
- @PVBrett – I have amazing art karma this week. Every artist I work with is hitting it out of the fucking park. Can’t wait to share.
- @PVBrett – I have a funny idea for a political cartoon about @scalzi. I should commission it this week while my good art karma lasts…
- @PVBrett – Shuffling songs and Beatallica comes on. For a week in 2007 I thought they were the cutting edge of awesome, but the magic spent quickly.
- @PVBrett – Messenger just delivered page proofs for #DaylightWar. Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in.
- @PVBrett – Allllllmost there… http://t.co/qIYcvCs0
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