Flying out to Hong Kong tomorrow night to give some lectures, then to Tokyo for a short break, so I'm not likely to be online much for the next week (not that the difference will be immediately obvious to readers of this page, I admit). I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I finished enough of the marking that I started writing a new story on Thursday. Today, though, was spent revising and ...
1) Rear Gear! For the easily offended. via Jay Lake
2) “They must be professional house shooters.”
3) Rush Limbaugh: Victim of Racism .
4) Death by anti-science: Iraqi General to use dowsing rods to detect IEDs. From the article: “He is such a believer that the Iraqi military are abandoning proven methods such as sniffer dogs.” This is my unhappy face. via James Nicoll.
5) Hard ...
Some of you, probably know that for the last month I’ve been taking a course on how to get published. It helps the students write query letters, CVs, synopsis and so forth. I’m enjoying it immensely and I want more.
I like that I like school and learning. I was crap at it back in, y’know, school. Mostly because I didn’t care. It didn’t interest me. But now everything is more or less falling in...
First of all, thank you, everyone, for the kind words on yesterday’s post. I couldn’t be more thrilled about making Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2009 list . And thank you also to everyone who posted and tweeted about it to spread the word.
I sent an email to KUOW, our local NPR station, to let them know that two Seattle locals were on the list for sf/f books, but I’m sure nothing will come of...
.... Note that royalties, printing and distribution all (to varying degrees) become optional for writers and publishers in an electronic world. Only marketing remains essential, although all of the factors that govern that are also changing. These facts are putting booksellers with shops out of business and significantly and continuously changing the way the publishing industry operates.
...One of the unsung advantages to the old system was that it provided implicit quality control. Because publishing a physical book was so expensive, publishers wanted to get their investment back. If something was...incentivize this kind of labor. If you're concerned with quality books coming out after the publishing houses finally go bankrupt, this is what needs to be fixed. There is no guarantee that...
The tale of how Stories From My Father got back into print here , AND -- CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GARBAGE??????? -- " The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.
I have just sold a second non-fiction article, "Reclaiming Your Rights" to The Handbook of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. No publication date yet, but I'll be very happy to have two bylines in this long-awaited handbook.
I need to select an author photo. I have three I'm trying to decide between. Okay, so first one is probably familiar to a lot of you. It was from my original batch of author photos taken nearly four years ago. Luckily, I still look more or less the same. I didn't use this one for the MTV Books, but I did use it as my author shot when I was a RITA finalist/winner. I still like it lots and lots ...
