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SIX OF THE BEST… Criminal Minds villains

After 12 years, there are bound to be some great villains on any TV show. ButCriminal Minds makes a living off its villains. Here are six of the best of them.

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SIX OF THE BEST: second books and pro-wrestlers

I was on vacation last week, so I didn’t post this, but here are my two most-recent Six of the Best columns:

SIX OF THE BEST… second books in a series: books that don’t fall victim to the sophomore slump.

SIX OF THE BEST… pro wrestlers: because I used to watch wrestling a lot.

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SIX OF THE WORST… things about health insurance

Health insurance sucks.

Well, okay, insurance itself doesn’t, but the system certainly does.

Here’s me bitching about it.

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submission and publication update for September 2016

Blah.

PUBLISHED

Nothing

CONSIDERING

Abyss and Apex,AE, Angry Robot Books, Apex Magazine, Asimov’s, Automobilia, Binge Watching Cure, Bourbon Penn, Breakroom Stories, Chronos Chronicles, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, DarkFuse, ECM Network, Electric Literature, Pear Tree Press, Persistent Visions, Read Short Fiction, Straeon, Stoneslide Corrective

STUFF I WROTE

I probably wrote about 500 words in September— fiction, that is. I did crank out a bunch of columns, but I don’t think that counts....

SIX OF THE BEST… books I discovered by accident

I know I’ve mentioned in the past that I subscribe to an e-book library that often gets pretty big dumps of books for borrowing. It’s not quite like going to the bookstore — you can’t just walk through the aisles until you find something that looks good. It comes down to title, author, and a thumbnail of the cover. If I’m interested, I’ll click in and read the synopsis, and if it catches my interest, I’ll borrow it.

Sometimes I stumble upon crap. But other times there are hidden gems. Here ar...

Book Review: “Silencing Sharks” by John Hope

It can often be quite a surprise when you find out that someone you know has written a book. It’s even more of a surprise when you find out that your first college roommate has written a whole lot of them.

In this case, the college roommate is John Hope, and his most recent book is Silencing Sharks. It’s the story of Peter Bench (yes, I got the reference), a deaf 13-year-old boy who learns that he can hear sharks — and the sharks need his help.

Read the full review at Nerdery Public.

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SIX OF THE BEST… efficiency-increasing Chrome extensions

I’ve been using Google Chrome for many a year now, and while some complain of its resource hogging, I still feel like it’s the best browser for me. Google already knows all of my personal information; might as well let them personalize things for me, right?

But even power users can use a little something to supercharge their experiences with their browsers. In that vein, here are six of the best efficiency-increasing Chrome extensions (that I currently use).

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SIX OF THE BEST… musical episodes

Do you like musical episodes? I like musical episodes.

SIX OF THE BEST… musical episodes

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Book Review: Only Superhuman by Christopher L. Bennett

I’ve reviewedOnly Superhuman, Christopher L. Bennett’s first original novel, over at Escape Pod. I liked it, for the most part.

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SIX OF THE WORST… examples of corporatespeak

I used to run a blog that lampooned corporatespeak. I mined my archives for this week’s column.

SIX OF THE WORST… examples of corporatespeak

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