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Putting on Your Galoshes

If it’s raining you put on your galoshes. You use an umbrella.

Well, ladies, gentleman, minotaurs, dragons, it’s going to rain. The long rains are going to come.

I expect in two years things will start to settle down. I expect in four years, the shape of our society will be completely different.

But–

I expect for the next two years things are going to purely suck.

So:

1- prepare. I don’t know what that means for you. I know for me some of the prep work is delayed, because ...

Corrupted Markets

Sometime ago I mentioned here the concept of corrupt markets.

You guys fanned out — as you will — across the web to look for the concept and couldn’t find it. I’ve had penciled in, on my wall, to write a post about it, so maybe one of you guys (I know at least one) who have a doctorate in economics or related disciplines can research it and do it up in proper format.

Yes I’m ABD but the papers I was taught to do was on literature analysis.

And btw my master thesis was on the inter...

Magic Mirror

What on Earth do you do with a magic mirror?

Ellie Jones turned the thing over and over in her hand, in some confusion. It was silver, and it had handle, but the size was like those stupid hand mirrors that women used to carry in their purses back when “I need to go powder my nose” was a thing.

The silver was tarnished and the elaborate scroll work on back and handle spoke of something very old. Not that Ellie was an expert. She was an accountant, not an art major. But it seemed to h...

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Okay, Fine….

I’m giving you the next two (Actually four but two are non-consecutive) chapters. Mostly because the headache is still killing me, and I’m having trouble finishing the story, as my fingers do the weirdest exchanges.
You asked for it. Ignore “magic.” When it manifested it was the only word this lost colony had for what they did. This will worry Skippy A LOT.

You guys want to know why I’m diffident? THIS is why I’m diffident:

The King Is Dead

As he’d feared, the cries and screams echoed, ...

Real Post Later

*This is the book that I’m writing as a reward, when I write the other stuff. Not that the book is a reward, mind you. I’ll probably never be able to sell it (not because of this part, but because the alien world that comes in later is…. skivvy? to most people) to the public, but it won’t shut up. So it will get written. Anyway, this is something to hold you because I have a short story to deliver before lunch, and I woke up with the world’s worst headache. – SAH*

HeroSkip:

Everyth...

And Now For Something Completely Different

Yesterday something made me look for #1 son post on cons.

Maybe because I’ve been editing the last two of Kate Paulk’s con stories (and yes, begging her to finish the next) this struck me as immensely funny.

One of the things that really got to me, besides the fact that he and Kate both decided G-d attends cons as a writer, is the fact that my son in 2008 (before Denvention, btw) thought that writers’ cons were the same as science fiction cons. This makes perfect sense if you think ab...

The Path Forward

This last year has been a form of hell. The shock that the country submitted meekly to what I was sure — and turned out be right — was a massive psy-ops over an otherwise unremarkable cold/flu virus. I was astonished and revolted no one was questioning the bullshit handed down, even to meekly donning the masks that everyone knows do nothing, if they so much as read a couple of studies. (Yes one study showed they were maybe beneficial — the result was within the margin of error — but that wa...

Come With Me And Escape

Between the ages of about ten and sixteen or so, I was desperately unhappy.

There were many reasons for this, and most of them, honestly, are no one’s business. Or they’re other people’s business, but not mine to divulge.

But a lot of it had to do with coming of age and going out into the wider world, and finding that I didn’t quite fit in. I don’t think I’m the only one who reads int his blog and thinks this. Because we are odd.

Do I belong to the autist creed? Well. It manifests...

Putting The Reverted IP back up

Part of my problem is that I hate editing, even myself.
But it needed to be done.
The Darkship series will take a little longer, because there is about 1/3 extraneous material per book. So I need smart and fanatic readers to tell me if there’s a scene they’d like to see, or something they’d like one of the books to show more of. Failing that, I’ll make Dan read them and tell me if he thinks they need something. (He’s pretty good at that.)
I know there’s maybe ten pages removed from AFGM in editing,...