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On the tempest around the Tempest challenge
The other day, Tempest Bradford wrote an article challenging readers to stop reading white, straight, cis, male authors for a year. Naturally, there's been a lot of fussing about the article from the...
View ArticleDENDERA
Some good things happening with dayjob novel Dendera by Yuya Sato, including:this new Q/A with the author in the Los Angeles Times book blog andthis rave review from SFSignal.com, that reads, in part:...
View ArticleMonday Stuff, Including a Favor Please
My cousin Brandon Contes is part of a radio contest: WFAN's Fantasy Phenom Contest—it's for a paid spot doing broadcasting on NYC's biggest sports radio station. Please take a moment—and it only takes...
View ArticleTweet of the Day
wanna really really support me? Don't buy on iTunes. Wait for illegal download and PayPal me 10$. HimaSuri at Gmail. Fuck the corporation.— Eat Pray Thug 3/10 (@HIMANSHU) March 2, 2015Will this be how...
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The cartoonist has no idea how net neutrality works.
Remember, most editorial cartoonists are idiot slaves!Originally posted by theweaselking at The cartoonist has no idea how net neutrality works.
View ArticleStephen King in THE NEW YORKER, Stephen King in CEMETERY DANCE.
Stephen King is one of those busy new writers, isn't he? He has a story, A Death, in the current issue of The New Yorker, and a recent reprint, "Summer Thunder" in the latest issue of Cemetery Dance....
View ArticleSome Stuff
I got a royalty check for The Nickronomicon. A relatively big one—more than a day at day job work pays, more than a month's cable/Internet/phone/utilities. So, if you've not bought it yet, why not buy...
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I'm the Nancy Kerrigan of taiji
I decided, in January, to enter the Berkeley Chinese Martial Arts Tournament, in the push hands division, for a couple of reasons:broken toe in summer 2013 plus baby (which meant no more jujitsu and no...
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Want to be a writer?
It's increasingly silly, the idea of offering writing classes. Just put stuff on Kindle, follow a bunch of spambots on Twitter, and you do can be terrible and successful. Check out this guy:He's doing...
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Friday Quick Notes
My story of professional wrestling Work, Shoot, Hook, Rip, originally from Ellen Datlow's Nightmare Carnival (which you should totally buy for Nathan Ballingrud's "Skullpocket") is now live on The Big...
View ArticleThe Hugo Awards in the Era of Slates
This weekend, the ballot for the Hugo Awards will be revealed. It is already controversial, as it is clear that the Sad Puppies slate (Google it) will dominate several categories. This has some people...
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Lovecraftian Things—No Platform for Fascists
Back when I was doing some research for my SFSignal essay on Lovecraft and racism, I came across an essay on a fascist website lauding Lovecraft's views, written by one David Riley. There is also a...
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Literary Journals and Epistemic Closure
I am a big fan of the Los Angeles Review of Books and have even published there. I was very interested then, when they announced that The Offing would be an associated literary journal (fiction,...
View ArticleThe Darker the Night, the Brighter the Star
The Hugo Award nominees were announced over the weekend, and as long whispered the Sad and Rabid Puppies slate had a huge influence. I think my first tweet regarding the ballot is still the best:I...
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AWP
I went to the conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) in Minnesota—first time in that state!—this past weekend. I'd say this about sums it up:I was actually on that Blue...
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Anguish etched on her face and held safe by the bare-chested man who has dragged her from the sea, she seems unable to comprehend what has happened to her.Around her are scenes of chaos as dozens of...
View ArticleLooking for the Sad Puppy Counter-Reading List
I've been asking around in a variety of places, so may as well try here:If the Hugo Awards have really been dominated by leftist material that prized message over story since the mid-1990s (Brad’s...
View ArticleThe Incredible, Edible Huh?
There's a nice place near our house called Summer Kitchen. One thing they sell is a pizza with an fried right in the middle. This past week we all had stomach bugs and I was a little tender, so I...
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