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June 13, 2015
Ein Kleines [Nacht!] Promo
Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship got lost and settled for a different world, a wild world. Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medieval tech and a feudal structure. Worse, the people who want him...
June 12, 2015
Dispatches From Another World
*I apologize for the length of this post. As you know I’m not feeling quite well, which means I’m more meandery (totally a word) than normal. However, the steroids are working, so…*
Yesterday I found what I think is an indie mystery series, (okay, only two books but I’m hoping she writes more. It’s published by Steel Magnolia press which seems to be on the level of Naked Reader when it was going full tilt) which reminded me of how much I love mysteries and which in a way, backwards, swung bac...
June 11, 2015
The Good News
The good news is that I’m alive, even if this post is ridiculously late. Older son grabbed me by the scruff and dragged me to doctor.
Turns out this thing I thought was con crud isn’t. It’s massive allergy attack triggering all three auto-immune, which explains why I’m eczemy, walking like both knees are broken, and suffering asthma attack.
As best we can tell it’s set off by the paints and woodstain I’ve been using on the other house. Now, how in heck I finish the house without killing mysel...
June 10, 2015
It’s Only Words – A Blast From The Past Post from December 2010
It’s Only Words – A Blast From The Past Post from December 2010
It is one of the er… interesting aspects of a writing career that moments of heartbreak and the most fallow, dark years are inextricably linked to the moments when something clicks.
Perhaps it’s true of life, anyway. Human beings are creatures of habit. If everything is going along fine – or even tolerably – nothing changes. This in terms of society explains why wars and revolutions tend to change the world in scientific and inno...
June 9, 2015
The Tragedy of the Squid Farms
There is a well-night unanswerable question that “progressives” ask in every arena. Say, for instance that politicians in Chicago are beyond corrupt and this has a lot to do with the Chicago machine and in turn is responsible for the raging violence on the streets (because elected officials know it won’t wash back on them) and they’ll come back with “yeah, and if there wasn’t a machine, who should have been elected?”
The same thing with the Hugos, where over and over the bright enough to be s...
June 8, 2015
Trust and Loathing – Cedar Sanderson
Trust and Loathing – Cedar Sanderson
Most of us have a need to trust someone. Man is not meant to dwell alone all of his days, and those who do are usually crippled by internal problems. This is not a bad thing, trust. But taken too far in the other direction, it can be equally as crippling. There must be a balance in one’s trust and loathing.
We all loathe something. It’s most likely not even a conscious decision on your part. For me, it’s the sound of someone chewing with their mouth open....
June 7, 2015
Shout it from the rooftops
I could be in a better mood today, I could.
I’m not. To begin with my husband has shared his cold caught at comicon. This (probably) combined with working at the other house with paint fumes and such has caused my arms to erupt in an attack of eczema like none in years – for those who don’t know what that looks like, it looks like I have third degree burns all over my arms.
This morning over breakfast, I opened a medieval mystery which I bought because it was only 99c and to which the author...
Promo Post Now, Post Later!
The Turkowi fear the blackbird as a bird of ill omen. They’re right.
Matthew Malatesta fights, drinks (a little), and harbors no great ambitions, content to follow his brother. Treachery and a vow of revenge launch him north, into the Eastern Empire. Tempered by the fires of war, Count Malatesta, the Blackbird, soars into legend, carving a name and a country for himself.
Matyasa, the Blackbird: this is his story.
A Father’s Choice
Sev...
June 6, 2015
The Economics of Indie Publishing- Chris Nuttall
The Economics of Indie Publishing- Chris Nuttall
I was on a panel with Chris Kennedy and a couple of others discussing the economics of indie publishing. These are my conclusions.
There’s a general rule in traditional publishing that the money should always flow downhill to the writer. If you’re being asked to pay for anything, once you get picked up by a publisher or agent, you’re being conned. Editing? Cover design? Formatting? Promotional material? The publisher should pay for all of thos...
June 5, 2015
The Sharp Edge of Guilt, a blast from the past March 2010
Yesterday I was hanging around in the kitchen with my older son, waiting for the coffee to brew, and he made some joking comment about my being oppressed when I was growing up.
I told him I was oppressed enough, or at least women were, in that time and in that place – as they still are in many times and in many places.
Yes, I like to point out and do – often – that it wasn’t a gigantic conspiracy of men against women that kept women do...
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