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April 26, 2010
Distraction and links
One of the biggest things to plague freelancers (plague. heh.) is getting sick. when you feel perpetually behind in things, nothing like lying on the couch to make you feel super productive. As I was sick part of last week, and got behind on everything. But links! Links are awesome.
I did find this fantastic post about freelancing and distractions. 11 Awesome tips to Work without DistractionAll genre fans should be reading io9, because gems like this from Charlie Jane Anders come along. 4...April 20, 2010
Locus Award Nominations – AKA my third grade field day
When I was a kid (third grade, maybe? Fourth? Doesn't matter) our school would have a field day of sports and events at the last day of school. It was great fun. There were four teams, and my team (randomly picked) won one year. Personally, I hadn't done much to contribute; I was never terribly good at sports, even with the tomboy sensibilities. But hey, blue ribbon!
Thus, I was excited my team won the blue ribbon at the end of the day, but then a particularly mean boy said, "Why are you so...
April 19, 2010
April 15, 2010
ISBW #145 – Agents, Blake Charlton, Good Cop/Bad Cop
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Show notes forthcoming.
(Note, ISBW does not advocate the harming of anyone. That's all Matt.)
April 12, 2010
April 6, 2010
April 4, 2010
We're back. Limping, bloodied, but back.
We were hacked. Again. I have since done a completely clean install of WP, which has left us with some issues with the site and feed. it's late, and I'm traveling, so I will get to fixing the rest of the site when i can. As near as I can tell, the links at Murverse work (this is my home page where you can get ALL of my podcasts, not just ISBW) work now, so you can check there for your ISBW fix while I scrape together time to get the rest of this five-year-old blog fixed.
Yes, it looks...
April 1, 2010
No Joke- Get a discount for Sigler's THE STARTER pre-orders launch today.
It's April 1, so that means April Fool's day, but it also means Scott Sigler is launching pre-orders for his THE ROOKIE sequel, THE STARTER. At noon EDT today, you can order your copy, BUT, if you use the order code "mur" then you get $3 off the book.
Not familiar with The Rookie? It's been called NYT Bestselling novelist Scott Sigler's best book, a YA tale mixing Star Wars, Any Given Sunday, and The Godfather. It's suitable for the action-loving twelve-and-up crowd, fans of Battlestar...
March 31, 2010
ISBW #144 – Level Up! / Ellen Datlow Interview / Matt Wallace is Bad Cop
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00:00:07 ISBW #144 00:00:53 State of the Mur: working on novella, other short fiction, pondering some self-publishing production expenses.00:02:42 GoTo Meeting Message00:03:18 Level Up! A geeky role-playing-games perspective on learning from your mistakes: failure gets you experience points. Anyone else want real badges for life experiences, like in the Boy/Girl Scouts? There are nerd merit badges, and NaNoWriMo...
