Philip Brewer

Esperantistoj–legu mian Esperantan hejmpaĝon.

Philip Brewer (photo by Jackie Brewer)

I write science fiction and fantasy stories.

I also write about money. If you’re interested in “living large on a small budget,” you can read my personal finance and frugality blog at Wise Bread.

I went to Clarion, the science fiction and fantasy writers’ workshop, in the summer of 2001. I learned a lot and I had a great time. I’ve written a lot about Clarion in my Clarion Journal.

I speak Esperanto and write in that language as well.  If you speak Esperanto, you can read my Esperanto-language blog at Esperanto-USA.  Whether you speak Esperanto or not, if you’re in the area and are interested, please come to the meetings of the East-Central Illinois Esperanto Club.

I picked up two nice mentions for Wise Bread articles.

Lifehacker, in a piece by Jason Fitzpatrick, linked to my most recent post, Plan for your wants, in an article that they called Plan for your wants to make budgeting enjoyable.

And, in a piece by Farhad Manjoo, Slate included my post Not the sort of person who (along with mentions for Wise Bread in general and my personal site) among The best Web sites to help you scrimp through the recession.

The latest TOS for Google Adsense requires that sites have and follow a privacy policy.  (I don’t have ads on this blog, but I do have ads on a few of my pages, which I put there after I created an Adsense account for my Wise Bread posts.)

It’s hard to make a privacy policy interesting or amusing, but I did my best.

My brother has been paying close attention to Find the Lost Ring, because of the way Esperanto is figuring in the game.

At his urging, I took the quiz, which showed me as “sofia.” The flash dohicky the provided to show it on the blog, though, messed up my page, so I took it down.

The posts after this are mostly old news–a side-effect of using a blogging tool as a site-management tool.  I think it’ll be fine going forward, but entailed creating a flurry of posts to get all the old stuff into the right categories.

If I’d known what a distraction it would turn out to be, I’d probably have left the old site up for a while longer.  I think there was only one day that I didn’t get anything done on the novel, but I there was nearly a week there when I was spending at least as much time on the website.

Still, it’s good to have a functional website again.

First my service providers servers got hacked.  Then the service providers restored from backups, wiping out several day’s revisions to this site.  Fortunately, most of those days had been spent learning Wordpress rather than actually creating new content, and reverting to the backups didn’t delete what I’d learned.

So, once again, my new site is almost up.  Welcome!