Crime bragging
BN.com has spit out the table of contents for Best American Mystery Stories 2013. Now I know who else is in it. Odd mix. Here's the line-up:TOM BARLOW Smothered and Covered • 1MICHAEL CONNELLY A Fine...
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9/11
So for the first time, my Facebook friends feed is not full of photos like this on 9/11:Which explains why Obama is rattling the sabre so vigorously for Syria. Frenzies never last forever, especially...
View ArticleLOVE IS THE LAW, under ten bucks, forever.
So, the other day, the F&Gs for Love is the Law hit the Dark Horse offices. F&Gs are folded and gathered pages—the unbound book, basically. And after getting a good look at them, the length of...
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Friday Quick Notes...Uh, Make That Friday LONG Notes
First, in local news, a new restaurant has opened up in the death spot on Telegraph ave, making it the fourth establishment to give it a go in that space in five years. (Remarks on an earlier attempt...
View ArticleNew LOVE IS THE LAW date
At the new price of $7.99, Love is the Law will be on sale in the Direct Market (read: comic stores) on Oct 2nd, and to the bookstore trade on Oct 15th. Amazon may spit out copies sometime between...
View ArticleBundle of what?
On yesterday's shooting:Aaron Alexis seems a study in contradictions: a former Navy reservist, a Defense Department contractor, a convert to Buddhism who was taking an online course in aeronautics. But...
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What Every Girl Should Know
I just got back from the play What Every Girl Should Know at Impact Theater, which is under a pizzeria here in Berkeley. Given the location I had low expectations, but it was the best play I've seen in...
View ArticleLOVE IS A DEFLATIONARY CRISIS
As previously discussed, my next novel will actually be a rack-sized mass market paperback original. Online retailers are catching up to this fact: Barnes and Noble and Amazon have the new, cheap,...
View ArticleLet Us End This Unexamined Complaint
One of the cliches of the SF/F world is that one is expected to complain that during panel discussions, audience members will sometimes offer up comments rather than questions to the panelists....
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Opportunity for chumps!
O Kickstarter, what madness have you wrought? Here's an anthology, edited by nobody in particular, that graciously allows individuals to pay $300 for the privilege of having their story read and edited...
View ArticleWednesday Quick Notes
Amazon.com sent people who pre-ordered Love is the Law from its site a letter yesterday saying, basically, "OMG, we have NO IDEA WHEN THE BOOK IS SHIPPING!" That's because the books weren't in the...
View ArticleFresh Meat
Love is the Law is today's "fresh meat" on CriminalElement.com, which some of you may recognize as the sister site to Nerd Mecca Tor.com Check it out.Not to pick on the review or anything, but at this...
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LOVE IS THE LAW is out!
My new novel, Love Is the Law is now available on most ebook formats, with the price varying widely from $7.59 on Kindle, 7.99 on iTunes, $9.39 on Kobo, to the ridiculous 10.99 on NOOK. These prices...
View ArticleNyack Polish Rotary newsletter reviews LOVE IS THE LAW
From NPR Books:When it hits a fever pitch of paranoia and postmodern ideology-mashing, it's Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum boiled down to a minute-and-a-half hardcore song. In the midst of Love Is...
View ArticleDo you like Escape Artists podcasts?
Escape Artists, the people behind three great short story podcasts Escape Pod (science fiction), Pseudopod (horror), and PodCastle (fantasy), are looking at either winding down the company or raising...
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Shake What Your Mama Gave You: A Freelancer's Guide
Given that there is a significant correlation between social equality and sexual freedom, including the freedom to say no, it is no surprise that the continuing global economic crisis has led to...
View ArticleIf You Have Any Love Left In Your Hearts For Me At All, You'll Do This One...
So, Love is the Law has been out for a week, and I've been gratified to see people on Twitter and Facebook—people I don't know, or don't know that well—buying the book and starting to read it in the...
View ArticleThursday Quick Notes
Locally, the negotiations over a contract for BART workers continue, with thousands of people watching the news or keeping an eye online for updates—a strike has been teased for the next day every...
View ArticleLike a Hawaiian breakfast...
...this post is largely spam.Two nice reviews of Love is the Law:Chiusse writes, in part, I don’t know what Communism has to do with the occult, and after reading Love Is the Law, I confess I still...
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