Black Wednesday
Over at Apex Publications, all books are 40 percent off until December 2nd, including Starve Better, which would be a great gift for the wannabe in your life.Meanwhile, at PM Press, the holiday lasts a...
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Whatever Happened to Buy Nothing Day?
I am not actually a huge fan of Buy Nothing Day. Like a lot of political initiatives these days, it is dependent on non-action rather than action, and it ultimately reifies the power of the market....
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Black SF writer Samuel R. Delany is named grandmaster of science fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.And the latest tidbit leaked from the Secret Masters of Fandom mailing...
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Five Books I Loved This Year, And a Review
As usual, these are books I read this year, not necessarily books released this year. Though I think this time some were from 2013, or at least 2011 or 2012. These are in no particular order, though I...
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Remember when we'd find out news like the death of Nelson Mandela from LJ before other sources?
View ArticleOn the Question "Do You Take Reprints?"
A few years ago I met an online acquaintance for a face-to-face lunch. He was a writer and wanted the inside scoop on playing essays with The Smart Set. A genre fiction person, he was not very familiar...
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Tuesday quick notes
My LitReactor writing class, Start to Finish, begins January 9th. This is an online, asynchronous workshop-style class with "lectures." Four weeks, easy to squeeze in! Good if you're working on...
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A few years ago, my boss instructed me to write a two-page film treatment of one of our novels, All You Need Is Kill, to help our LA office VIZ Productions maybe sell it to the movies. Well, a few...
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FULL BABYISM: Tongue Ties in Infants
You might have a tongue tie, likely a small one. Basically, your tongue is attached to the base of your mouth by a bit of flesh. It's totally fine. Sometimes though, the ties are quite bad, which can...
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Year In Review
Well:BABYIn other news, I achieved a little career goal by getting a piece into one of the Best American series, specifically my story "Thy Shiny Car in the Night" was reprinted in Best American...
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Strong Island
Here is a picture of my son with his great-great-great aunt Venus. She is my great-grandmother's sister:Yup, I'm writing from that Long Island enclave of Ikarian blue-zoners. I got here a few days ago,...
View ArticleWhat year is it?
This might have fit for last year as well, but I do have diapers on my mind these days, so I suspect this will be the year of...People shitting themselves in public. Maybe metaphorically, on Twitter....
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Copts, in the house!Serbs are in the house!Antioch is in the house!Russians in the house!Paleoimerologites, all over the house!
View ArticleQuote of the Day
"For one, Beach's U.S. distribution model was a single book at a time and depended on a man wearing very large pants."—From "Printers, Bookleggers, and 'Spicy' Books: James Joyce in the Book Industry",...
View ArticleFriday Quick Notes
First up, big news! Self-Reference ENGINE by Toh EnJoe is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee! If you ever grumped about how most SF these days is just either a military adventure story or just fantasy with...
View ArticleWhat's Up?
Not too much. I sold a couple of stories—one a flash piece to a pornography anthology, one an overdue bit of Lovecraftian horror. I finished my column for the resurrected magazine Flytrap as well. It...
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Monday Quick Notes
It's MLK Day, so I am home from work, but Olivia isn't. So I am watching Taki by myself. See?Speaking of baby pictures, I have an event this week. The Green ArcadeWednesday, January 22, 7pm Nick...
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