Sunday afternoon, before we left, Lisa Silverthorne and I walked on the beach along the Cost of Lincoln City, Oregon. It was a sunny day, but cold. I was wearing layers, as was Lisa, but the wind can still somehow manage to get through. It didn’t matter, though. It was, at that moment, the perfect […]
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Freakonomics Takes on Copyright
Here’s an interesting podcast from Freakonomics about copyright. I find pretty much everything these guys look at to be interesting, even when the results themselves are not as compelling as others. I like that they at least make the attempt to be data-driven about things. In this case, I think the main takeaways are that […]
Read More ...To SFWA or Not to SFWA
There was a time when I was a card-carrying member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, otherwise known as SFWA. I let my membership lapse for a collection of reasons, specifically including the fact that a huge amount of its energy was being spent defining who could be a part of it […]
Read More ...Welcome to Hectic City
Holy Cows, has January been hectic. I mean, fifteen days have absolutely flown past. I’m working the normal 9-10 hours a day, reading tons of short stuff, and getting to the gym occasionally. I’ve easily topped my 20K steps a day goal as an average. I took a full day and pulled off a surprise […]
Read More ...A Night at the Virtual Post Office
So I sat here in front of the TV most of the night sending stories over the ethereal transom. This is a bit of work. I mean, no one who knows I write ever asks about how much time it takes to do the non-writing part of this stuff. I suppose you could just throw […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 18
So I picked up 2,610 words today, coulda/shoulda done better, but I’m not going to complain. Story is still moving, and I know pretty much where we’re going starting in the morning–which should portend good progress tomorrow, too. This was a milestone day, too, as we crossed 30,000 words for the package.
Read More ...Monkeys, the Next New Market?
File this under the heading that it’s not only people who are strange. # In my “day off” yesterday, I ran into a pair of interesting videos about economics in the monkey community. That last isnot a sentence I every thought I might type in my lifetime, but it is proof that the world is […]
Read More ...Unsticking it to the Man
Here’s an interesting TED talk on learning that also has an element of how the world is changing as a global entity. Lots of exciting stuff in the future, eh? # If you’re interested in piracy and the business of indie publishing then I think it’s important you read David Lowery’s response to a letter […]
Read More ...Appearances
A few things are starting to shake out and I thought I might drop them here just because, well, because that’s what you do with these things, eh? BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY WRITER’S CONFERENCE: For anyone in the central/southern Indiana area, I’ll be a guest speaker at the Bartholomew County writer’s conference on Saturday, October 6. It’s […]
Read More ...Who Needs Batman When You’ve Got Robin?
“Oh, I forgot to tell you,” I said to Lisa. “For maybe the first time I’ve been saved by a copy editor who wasn’t you.” This drew her attention. Lisa is, you see, a remarkable copy editor, having made her living doing that for a number of years before turning to the darkside of Corporate […]
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