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Blue Monday
I see that Jay has become posthumously LJ Famous, if there is such a thing anymore:It's strange to wake up in the morning and not think, "Okay, time to get to the airport..." It's good to be...
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Cindy Sheehan for governor
I voted Cindy Sheehan for governor in today's primary. Straight PFP when they ran candidates, Green where they didn't, and for attorney general where neither PFP or Green ran I voted Libertarian since...
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You Fight, I Win
Science fiction's left flank: We need more diversity in fiction, like our own books we can't sell with people of color, international SF, the end of gender defaults, etc!Science fiction's right flank:...
View ArticleEdge of Tomorrow
So, five-and-a-half years ago, at work, I was tasked with summarizing the book All You Need is Kill as a two-page treatment for our Hollywood office. At the top of it, I wrote "Groundhog Day meets...
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Tuesday Quick Notes
Edge of Tomorrow made $29.1m domestically over the weekend, which is better than its early tracking of $25m, but since it didn't entirely blow away tracking (say, with $35m), the media is still burying...
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This is the End...?
So today is Wednesday and on Wednesday the Bookscan numbers come out. And this week, for the first week since its release eight months ago, zero copies of Love is the Law have sold, according to...
View ArticleQuick Note on Iraq
When a relatively small militia column sweeps through a bunch of cities, and when 30,000 troops dissolve rather than fight 1000 people with light arms, you're not dealing with an outside militia trying...
View ArticleSome writing junk
So over the course of the past five weeks, I wrote five short stories. (One was actually a "mistake"—too long for the venue I was aiming for but also done a month early as I'd misremembered the...
View ArticleAnd Now the Winner for Most Awful Social Media Gambit...
With Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr being so popular, you may have forgotten that the humble email newsletter can be a great way to annoy and outrage the people you so callously see as empty...
View ArticleMarion Zimmer Rapely
A few years ago, a once-close friend of mine—someone whose house I had been to, who slept on my couch, who ran my first website, who lent me money and borrowed money from me as well—was convincingly to...
View ArticleToday only!
Weightless Books is selling ebooks of my novel Sensation for $1.99, today only.They have lots of great stuff, btw, including a complete run of and subscription accounts for The Big Click.
View ArticleTime keeps on slippin'...
Hey, it's my third wedding anniversary! And to celebrate, I'm home alone all month as Olivia and Oliver do a tour of the East Coast. (Olivia will also be finishing her dissertation while my parents and...
View ArticleToo far
I complained about this piece a tiny bit, in more private parts of the Internet, but now that a blog post speculating about my race and sexual orientation has republished on Strange Horizons, I will...
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Big Click Bizarro Crime Issue, And Recommendations For Editors
The new Big Click is out, and it's a special Bizarro issue, featuring work by Cameron Pierce and Stephen Graham Jones. I haven't even read it yet, as we had a guest editor in the form of Molly Tanzer!...
View ArticleKit Reed: A Writer for Life
Today begins the 25th Readercon, an always very interesting and occasionally horrifyingly doctrinaire science fiction convention. For those who don't know, science fiction conventions have guests of...
View ArticleMillion Writers Award—Editorial and Personal Picks
The Million Writers Award for stories first published online, despite sometimes becoming biggest-blog-wins (see rule #8), is one of the better things to happen to the lit-o-sphere. I was a judge a few...
View ArticleThis Should Be Fun...
From amazon's new subscription service:"KDP Select authors and publishers will earn a share of the KDP Select global fund each time a customer accesses their book from Kindle Unlimited and reads more...
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