Jason Córdova's Blog, page 75
July 13, 2011
Weekend Road Trip
So yeah, I've been working the "real" job so much this past week that I haven't had time to update here.
Oops.
This Thursday I leave for Libertycon24 in Chattanooga, TN. Next weekend I'm in Louisville, KY for FandomFest. In between, I have a short story due.
Meh.
The schedule for Libertycon24 is as follows
Friday, 5Pm — Room A: I'll be reading the entire short story from Lawyers in Hell, titled And Injustice For All. You may have heard me talk about that one a little bit. Just perhaps?Friday...
July 8, 2011
Fre Friday
I swear I'm tempted to start a thing called "Fré Friday".
Why "Fré" and not "Free"? Well, because by the end of the week I, along with everyone else in a civilized world, am pretty much frayed and at the end of the rope. We're all exhausted, tired and ready to kill. Well, okay, I'm ready to kill.
So what does the peanut gallery say? Want something free, every Friday, to help you prep for the weekend? To ease that nasty, combative feeling you have towards your fellow man (or woman) before you...
July 7, 2011
Captain America Hates Slackers
Gah, I'm such a slacker. I forgot to update yesterday. Captain America just beat me up for laziness.
Had Crouching Seal, Sleeping Dragon independently "proofed" and found some more mistakes that both the editor and I missed. Mildly embarrassing, but thankfully the proofer only required dinner as payment. I'll get those mistakes corrected and sent off to the Ed. later this week. Still, you would think that the mistakes I was making before wouldn't be cropping up still in my writing. Ugh.
As I...
July 5, 2011
What Is SF?
What is science fiction these days?
Everywhere I look, I see people with smart phones, tablets, Bluetooth devices and cars that can park themselves. I can find out more information than I need to know by whipping out my phone and calling up a search engine. My phone can track where I'm at (which is spooky) and I keep in contact with the majority of my friends through online means.
So how do we top that, as writers?
It seems that most people aren't even trying anymore. Everywhere I look I see...
July 4, 2011
4th of July
First off, Happy 4th of July. Keep your destructiveness safe and please, try to stay out of the ER.
Next, we cracked 10,000 visitors here. I didn't think that many people were interested (and probably aren't, but whatever) and everyone's support has been wonderful. I know TGS (The Great Scalzi) averages 5K visitors a day to his site, but he's more famous than I… for now.
Buwahahahaha!
Anyways, go celebrate with your family and friends and always remember just who made this holiday worth...
July 1, 2011
Schedule News
For those of you who were interested in what my FandomFest schedule looks like on July22-24, here it is.
Friday
4:00PM — Panel Room A: Introducing Some Up and Coming Faces in Speculative Fiction
9:00PM — Panel Room A: Writing in Someone Else's World
Saturday
9:00AM — Panel Room B: Techniques for Good Short Fiction
8:00PM — Panel Room B: Putting the Science in Science Fiction and Keeping Ahead
Now, knowing me, can you guess which panel I'll be half-asleep on? I don't know who'll be on what panel w...
June 30, 2011
A Letter to Larry
Dear Larry,
You failed to invite me to beta test your new phone way back when. I was forgiving.
You failed to invite me to beta test your cloud computer, the CR-48. I was forgiving.
However, you failed to invite me to beta test your Google+ social network site. I am not forgiving.
Please rectify. You will find all the appropriate documents you are looking for under a bench in Palo Alto, marked "Discretionary funds", as well as a small, generous "donation" to your global domination cause.
Sincerely...
June 29, 2011
June 28, 2011
Bid'nes Up Front, Pah'ty In The Back
A life in fiction doesn't really differ from anyone you see on the news, if you think about it. To both a reader and writer alike, the character is a living, breathing individual. A character such as Tori is as real to you and me as Paris Hilton is, maybe more so (Tori, you see, isn't a stuck up little… well, you get the point). The reader determines just how real a character is, though, no matter how much energy, effort, blood, sweat and tears into said character. As a writer, you only get a...
June 27, 2011
Price Updates
All righty, let me break down just what is where at this moment:
Lawyers in Hell – available at Amazon (Paperback – $19.95; Kindle – $9.99; Hardcover – $34.95), Barnes&Noble (Paperback – $19.95; Hardcover – $20.23)
The hardcover for Lawyers in Hell at B&N is a steal right now, a 550+ page book available for just over $20. The Kindle version of Corruptor is still a dirt-cheap $2.99.
Just a friendly reminder…
Corruptor – available at Amazon (Paperback – $19.95; Kindle – $2.99), Barnes&Noble (a
