Friday Quick Notes

Interested locals might want to consider taking my five-week genre writing course, which starts On August 17th. I've repaired several Clarion grads over the years, the poor things.

Speaking, of a few days ago, I was sent a book to blurb by the author. Instead of blurbing it, I edited the first chapter and sent back a length note. The author responded by saying he'll try to take the book back from its publisher. I'll consider that a win, though my suggestion was to keep the contract, and extend the deadline.

Here's a short interview with Peace and Freedom Party Senate candidate Cindy Sheehan on a libertarian website. As usual, libertarians have trouble understanding that some people are not libertarian. I blame the "world's shortest political" quiz and other dimensional spectra that magically turn 90 percent of people into libertarians.

Nine years later, Move Under Ground (only $2.99 on Kindle! Cheap!) is still getting reviews. The latest one reads, in part: This is a seriously literary book whose literary credibility is kind of undermined by the fact that Nick Mamatas wrote RPF crackfic. Well, yes.