If you can stand looking at me for thirteen and a half minutes

then you might want to head over to the Buzzy Mag site, where you can find an interview that Jean Marie Ward did with me back at this year's Balticon.  Though the hotel was jammed with fans, Jean Marie managed to find an empty hotel meeting room we were able to use.  She set up her small video camera, and we started talking.

My thanks to Jean Marie and the Buzzy Mag folks for including me in their SF/F author interview series.

I hope you enjoy it.

Want to watch me talk about finishing a novel?

A few weeks ago, Todd Frei, a librarian who is also a videographer, asked if I'd be willing to let him video me for a NaNoWriMo series the Wake County Public Libraries are doing.

I said, sure.

They'd scheduled my segment to appear today, November 21, so he asked if I'd be willing to discuss how to finish novel.

I said, sure.

Here's the result.  I can barely stand to see myself on screen, so I've only scanned this video, but Todd did a good job of cutting my talk to the time limit he had to obey.



If you're working on a book, I hope the advice proves to be useful.

Talking Boy

As I mentioned last week, while I was in Portland, the fine folks at the Intel Software Network's Take Five Videos filmed an interview with me. We talked about seamless, self-aware, and context-aware computing, and we also discussed briefly my charity work with Children No More. We filmed outdoors, which led me to squint throughout the ten-minute piece, but if you're interested, click on the video below and check it out.

Yikes! He's talking again.

Yes, I am, over at the Intel Software Network video site again. This time, they've posted three interviews with me, all on various tech-geek topics: parallel programming, manageability, and the future of graphics.

I can't bear to watch my fat self, so if any of you do check these out, please let me know how they are.

Here's the inside scoop on how these went. Gina and I showed up at the appointed time, and Jerry and Amy, Intel folks and friends, led us to a covered walkway they thought offered a nice background. (I agreed with them, because it's much nicer to look at trees than the usual corporate spaces.) A cameraman was waiting there. They told me the plan--talk on three topics--and then we picked a spot where the light was good. We did all three in one straight take, no redos, no review of questions, no preparation; Amy asked questions, and I answered them. I enjoy doing these talks, because I have to make up my answers on the spot, but I'm pretty sure I'm way stiffer and more uncomfortable looking than I should be. I'm hoping to get better at this sort of thing.

I also have to hope I sound at least moderately competent, somewhat interesting, and not too unprepared. Maybe someday I'll get around to watching them and find out...or not.