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March 22, 2020
A Viral Update
It’s looking less and less like I’m going to get the opportunity to use my resignation letter. That makes me kind of sad. It’s a really good resignation letter. It’s sharp, succinct, and pointed. ‘Here’s a list of some of the worst ways in which you’re failing your employees. Here’s a list of the stuff […]
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March 15, 2020
Liquid Cool Review
I’m told you’re supposed to start book reviews with something positive. Liquid Cool isn’t the worst book I’ve ever read. It’s not the most offensive, or the most appalling. It isn’t even the most poorly edited. But that’s probably the extent of the positive things I can say about it. Liquid Cool passes itself off […]
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March 4, 2020
Blade Runner 2049 Review
A few weekends ago I finally got around to watching Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited addition to the cyberpunk phenomenon that started with Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And I have to say, I’m impressed. 2049 far exceeded its predecessors. In this review I’ll discuss what I liked and didn’t like […]
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February 17, 2020
The Mutiny Continues
I’ve written about the situation at the Other Job, chronicling how poor management decisions, lack of staffing, inhumane working conditions, and abusive leadership eventually led to a mutiny in late 2019. (You can read that article here.) I wrote about the conclusion to the mutiny, in which Human Resources got involved and the abusive supervisor […]
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February 6, 2020
Review: The Treemakers
“Faced with the exhausting task of building mechanical trees that produce the precious oxygen they breathe, the Greenleigh orphan slaves piece together clues about the existence of a possible forbidden paradise beyond The Wall. To find the truth, shatter the illusions, and free the children, Joy must entrust the aid of an unlikely ally who […]
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February 1, 2020
Would You Be Willing To Change Your Main Character’s Identity?
A while back, I saw an interesting question posed on Twitter. Imagine you’re talking to movie producers making a movie of your book. They want to change your MC’s sexual orientation or race or both! How would you feel about that? And the answer is… well, it depends. Thinking of main characters like Adrian in Necrotic […]
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December 28, 2019
A Break
The author is tired. Not the “wow, that was a long day!” kind of tired, but the “struggling to keep up with an avalanche of deadlines and obligations month after month after month” kind of tired. The tired that comes from never being able to get caught up, and from an Other Job that’s perpetually […]
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December 25, 2019
Favorite Reads of 2019
Interesting fact: my Favorite Reads of 2018 is one of the most viewed articles on this site. It’s ranked 4th by traffic, behind only articles about Ingram Spark and Kindle Direct Publishing. This surprised me. It also tells me that people really enjoy these end-of-year summaries, and that’s more than enough reason to do another […]
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December 15, 2019
Positive Role Models in Writing
Recently someone I know asked, How important is it to have positive male role models in your work? I find this question interesting on a number of levels. The first is the obvious qualifier: male role models. I and my childhood friends may have grown up in the ‘80s, but we escaped a lot of […]
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December 9, 2019
The Writing Community
This wasn’t the blog post I was going to do, but the other post is still in production and this piqued my interest. I was scrolling through Twitter and came across this tweet, and it made me think. “I feel so lucky to be writing at a time where there’s the Twitter #writingcommunity for support. […]
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