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June 28, 2010
All Write! #21: By The Tweve Heavens
Summer is now dead upon us, and the All Write! crew likes to take a vacation as much as anyone else. So we're taking July off. Not to worry though, as I've arranged some very talented folks to do some fill-in content while Natalie and I take a breather. Your Mondays will still be filled with the joy that only these characters can provide.
Also, I've been collecting new pictures of Sir Pussykins making an omelet, and they are all fantastic. I'll be posting them all on Friday, so if you've...
June 21, 2010
June 17, 2010
Silk Purses and Sow's Ears
There's that old country saying: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Meaning that if you start with crap ingredients, you won't make anything good.
I was talking to a nonfic author who had received some bad editorial comments on something he had written, and the publisher had given him a one day turnaround time. He did the edits on time, but still worried that the editor's negative comments were bad enough to hurt his reputation with a publisher.
When I wrote RPGs, the number one ...
June 15, 2010
June 14, 2010
ISBW #147: Writing Tools/Liz Gorinsky Interview
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A much more … sane ISBW returns to talk writing tools and to play the fantastic interview conducted by Chris Lester of the Hugo-nominated Tor editor, Liz Gorinsky!
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June 10, 2010
More Than One Way For A Cat To Make An Omelet
The immensely talented J.R. Blackwell, so taken with the most recent All Write! comic, sent out a call for illustrations of Sir Pussykins making an omelet. In her own inimitable style.
It will surprise no one that J.R.'s force of will gave us not one, not two, but three versions of Sir Pussykin's culinary expertise:
I adore them all. I can only hope that this is merely the first entries of long and lustrous series of cat-making-an-omelet...
Ebook Publishing
Ebook formatting isn't easy. I know this. I put out my own book, Playing For Keeps, on Kindle, and the formatting has garnered some one star reviews on an otherwise popularly reviewed book.
I know this because I've seen horrible books put out on Lulu (this starts with a PDF, so I still count it as ebook formatting.) When my and JR Blackwell's book Her Side was formatted by a professional, Daniel Solis, (more on that project in a later post), I had editors and authors at Balticon commenting...
June 9, 2010
June 8, 2010
ISBW Metacast #1
Really? I've never done a Metacast before? In FIVE years? Maybe it was called a "special" cast. I dunno.
Regardless! I talk about what happened in May, what I've been up to, and assure you that the podcast is back and going nowhere anytime soon. We return to calm, clean, solo podcasting here.
Note- I did mention that the interview with Gail Carriger is "coming up" – I had planned on releasing the meta cast before ISBW #146, so that's why I said that.
June 7, 2010
Be Cool
Dave Thompson is the author of The Unbelievable Origin of Superspiff and the Toothpick Kid and is the co-editor of the podcast magazine Podcastle.
The first time I met Mur Lafferty back at Viable Paradise X, she passed onto me some of the best advice I've ever received. "Be cool to everyone."
Simple, right? It's the Golden Rule – essentially what Jesus told his followers was the greatest commandment, and it's the same one Rufus passed down to Bill and Ted. It's the essence of Chili Palmer...
