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The Fear Never Gets Any Easier, By Tom Pollock 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Here’s a guest post by author Tom Pollock, who wrote the fantastic City’s Son (and who was kind enough to blurb Under the Empyrean Sky). Here Tom talks about the fear all authors experience, and it’s ...
The Face (And Regency Dress) Of Male Feminism 27 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
Hello, class. Today’s filmstrip is called Scalzi Owns The Dudebros. (The too-long-didn’t-read is that some Dudebros — or, rather, Douchebros, as I like to call them — thought to make the Scalzi-in-a....
Crowdsourced: Top Ten Paranormal Romance Books 26 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
So, as you’ll note, Monday is at present the day I pop by to ask you about your essential reads in a given category — now thanks to Carol McKenzie we’re doing the tallying. Today, it’s paranormal rom...
Crowdsourcing The Essentials: Non-US, POC Sci-Fi and Fantasy? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
Would @ChuckWendig and @jimchines talk about non-US, POC SFF? — Joyce Chng (JDamask) (@jolantru) August 23, 2013 Author Joyce Chng (aka J. Damask) asked me the other day on Twitter to talk about non...
Flash Fiction Challenge: Another Ten Words 23 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Last week’s challenge: Subgenre Frankenstein. I’m going to give you ten words. Your job is to work all ten of these words into a flash fiction story, ~1000 words in length. That’s it. End of mandate....
Questions For You Runnin’ Types 23 Aug 2013 | 05:49 am
Tonight, I upped my game somewhat significantly and in fact unexpectedly — jumping from six minutes of running without stopping (and dying) to nine minutes without stopping (and dying). I attribute th...
Ten Questions About Crux, By Ramez Naam 22 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
I met Ramez at last year’s Worldcon and at the time was just hearing about his book, Nexus, out with Angry Robot — I am regrettably a slow reader and I crawl through a TBR list (that seems to be mult...
The Runner 21 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
I never thought I’d be a runner. I mocked runners. I’d think, “Oh, ha ha, look at them, gallumphing about, sweating like perps. They’re not getting anywhere. What are you running from, asshole? Go ri...
Under The Empyrean Sky: Goodreads Giveaway 20 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Huh, wouldja look at that? There’s a giveaway for Under the Empyrean Sky over yonder hills at Goodreads. The trick is, it seems to be ending tomorrow (8/21), so, hop on it. The book seems to be reach...
Oblique Strategies For Authors, By Stephen Blackmoore 20 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Today’s guest post is by esteemed urban fantasy slash crime writer, Stephen Blackmoore, who wrote the whip-cracking Dead Things last year (one of my favorites), and who will actually be carrying the G...