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"If you see a book of matches move on its own then you're either drunk or it must be a ghost."  This is the kind of "logic" the frat boys of Ghost Adventures employ.  Is it any wonder I make fun of these ghost hunting reality shows?

Bought a new board game.  Twilight Imperium by Fantasy Flight Games.  It's a big galactic conquest board game.  How big?  I recently bought two six foot long folding tables and side-by-side, they have barely enough room for the whole setup.

I'm having some friends o...

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Piracy!

Yaaar!  Tis a word that brings terror to the hearts of men.  I'm not talking about the piracy found on the high seas.  I'm referring to that dreaded scourge of electronic media!  That's right!  The horrid ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS!

I have a hard time taking this quite as seriously as most other artists.  It's true that with the invention of electronic media, file sharing, and the internet, piracy is easier than it's ever been.  There's no doubt that there are many a wicked soul out there who...

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It's almost Friday and in keeping with my new Tuesday / Friday blog update schedule, I'm here to throw a little wisdom your way, kids, because I am nothing if not informative.

The hullaballoo about the new Harlequin Horizons self-publishing imprint gave me an excuse to post some thoughts on self-publishing in general.  You read right, gang.  This isn't a blog about Godzilla, board games, or the coolness of robots and cartoons.  Although I'm not promising that one or more of those topics might ...

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Hi.  Haven't been posting much lately.  Been kind of busy, but I've decided that the best thing to do is to create a schedule.  So let's make it Tuesdays and Fridays that I will add something to this site.  Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Tonight, I'd like to write a couple of game reviews.  I don't know this for certain, but I sometimes think I am among board and card games strongest celebrity afficianados.  Maybe not, but we'll just pretend like I am.

The first game I want to...

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Jeepers, those wacky ghost hunters are at it again.  Why do I keep watching these shows?  I don't really know.  I don't watch them as much as I used to.  One can only watch people walking around in the dark for so long before a pattern emerges.  If shadow people, garbled recordings, and cold spots are enough to convince you the dead are haunting the land of the living, I guess that's your prerogative, but all I see is people who are easily fooled by their own imaginations.

The newest addition ...

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Hey, hey, gang.  Don't really have a whole lot to write about at the moment, but since it's been a little while I've posted anything.  This blogging stuff is part of my job, strange as that may seem.

Ninja Assassin looks like it could be fully awesome.  I love the title.  No screwing around.  No confusion.  This is about a freakin' ninja assassin.  Deal with it.  I hope it has a lot of butt-kickin' in it.

The new Clash of the Titans looks promising as well.  Monsteriffic, even.  I was on board ...

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One of my fellow DFWWW writers posted that the trailers for 2012 were a model for "the worst query letter ever".  While I'm not one to resort to simple statements of authority, I think I can say here that he's wrong.  2012's commercials, for all their lack of detail and big FX, are designed to sell the movie for exactly what it is.  A by-the-numbers disaster flick.  It's not meant to be anything else.  So the commercials concentrate on what's important:  Melodrama and Disaster.  Everything...

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Been wracking my brain for a blog post idea.  Gotta keep current.  I don't know if this stuff actually helps my career or not, but I seem to get a reasonable amount of good feedback.  So let's keep to it.

I've decided to be inspirational today because I love it when I hear that something I've written has given an aspiring writer hope.  If I can do that, then I figure that this isn't a waste of time because, as I've pointed out before, I was an aspiring writer not so long ago.

What's my...

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Being a professional novelologist is a weird gig, gang.  It's not because I get paid to make up stories, although that is a bit odd if you think about it.  Yet no odder than getting paid a million dollars to swing a bat at a ball or drive a car really, really fast.  And it's not because people look up to me for my accomplishments, meager as they are in a sociological or cosmic sense.

It's because, as a modern writer, I'm not allowed to be quiet.  Simply put, I'm expected to be something of a c...

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Hello.  Just popping in to say that I recently moved and haven't established a reliable internet connection just yet.  This is why you've had to live so long without my wit and wisdom, and while I know that's tough, I also know you're strong enough to carry on a few more days until this problem works itself out.

Hang in there, gang.  I'll be back soon. 

Fighting the good fight, Writing the good write,

Lee

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