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March 12, 2020
At the Ebooks Direct store: everything 50% off until March 30
(Caption: “Be like our hard-working staff! Wash your hands.”) So last night I looked at the state of the world and thought to myself, “It may be that some people…
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February 13, 2020
Playing with Terragen: the Jungfrau Massif
I’ve been using Planetside Software’s Terragen program/app for cover work and concept art for a long while, with varying levels of success. (Mostly having to do more with my own…
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February 8, 2020
At the Ebooks Direct “office”: A chance meeting
(“…as we say in Middle-Earth.”) So I was setting up some promo art for an ebook sale that’s going to be offered on Tumblr only. Nothing fancy. The Ebooks Direct “office”.…
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February 4, 2020
CrossingsCon 2021: We’ve got dates!
A lot of you will know that 2019 was kind of a busy year for me. Unquestionably one of the most fun things to happen during the year was CrossingsCon,…
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January 9, 2020
Handling Twitter
It occurred to me suddenly one day last year sometime that lots of people who use Twitter and have a fair number of followers have put up guides, here and…
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January 8, 2020
2020 Hugo Nomination Eligibility: the Tale of the Five Series
So it’s that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards, and it turns out that once again, work of mine is eligible…
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December 30, 2019
From the (theoretically forthcoming) CUISINES AND FOODS OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOMS: Cracknels
Using the vestigial English term “cracknel” to define this common snack food format of the Middle Kingdoms may at first seem a strange choice, considering the weird peripatetic course the…
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December 22, 2019
From the Winter Solstice, 2009: “Dancing in the Dark…”
In 2009 I was asked to participate in the 365 Days of Astronomy science podcasting project, and they asked me what I’d like to talk about. I thought about that…
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December 15, 2019
Crossing the streams
So lately I’ve been working on what ought to be (REALLY ought to be, this is running later than it should have) the last 20,000 words or so of the…
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December 9, 2019
Q&A: Getting into Star Trek, Managing IP work
From the ask box at my Tumblr: How did you get into writing Star Trek novels? Are there any considerations you have to keep in mind when working with someone…
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