It’s May, and I’m still behind on things. At least I have a better grip on the things I’m behind on, and have spoken with everyone about revised deadlines? I’m calling that as much of a win as April was going to give me. Meanwhile, there’s some bad news and some good news, and some […]
I don’t know if you can but you certainly May…. Read More »
CatofSize isn’t sure if he’s having a bad morning or is just in a Grumpy Old Man stage. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference… Â And I probably should stop referring to having to shoot the cat. New people (and some older ones) keep reading it all wrong. ;-) But hey, being up at 6am
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Woke up this morning and the combination of BioFreeze, painkillers, and a heating pad seem to have done the trick on my shoulder. But since I’m going to be working in a non-traditional format (no office chair) until further notice, this may change at any moment. Â Hopefully, I’ll be able to go chair-shopping over the
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I don’t have a writers’ group, in the traditional sense. Â But I do have a writers’ support group, also known as The War Room. Â And recently we were discussing the different ways we’re getting work to readers – traditional publishing, small press, Kickstarter, and direct-to-reader – and the difficulty of getting word out, even when
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There are years – okay, every year – I disagree with award nominations and winners (more often than I agree, but I know my taste is off-kilter). But dear fucking gods, there are ways to express your opinions in a mature and rational fashion. And then there’s this. First of all, it’s petty. Second of
This past week, news broke in the SF community that there had been yet another complaint about sexual harassment lodged against a well-known editor. This editor had been censured previously, back in 2010, but it turned out that none of the complaints had been “officially” registered. That has now changed. And the fact that previous complaints
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What situation, you ask?  This one. This Saturday I saw the New York Times article Barnes and Noble/Simon & Schuster Dispute Said to Hurt Sales. Later in the day, a high-up Simon & Schuster executive also linked to that post from his Facebook account, saying that yes, this is what’s going on. Another article about it
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Another in my on-going occasional series of guest posts from Writers I’m Reading… I have been a Lynn Flewelling fangirl ever since my editing days, when I gave her agent hell for sending Lynn’s first book to other editors, and not me. (she apologized), and I’ve been waiting for CASKET OF SOULS for what
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Another in my on-going occasional series of guest posts from Writers I’m Reading. In this case, it’s Myke Cole, whose first novel, SHADOW OPS #1: CONTROL POINT, hit the shelves recently. I’m an old hand at military SF (that was how I got into SF in the first place) and the military has its roots
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Part of an ongoing, non-scheduled series, wherein I grab writers I’m reading, and ask them to talk about something related to that book, that they haven’t had a chance to talk about before, or at enough length. 0O0 I read Juliet McKenna’s first book, The Thief’s Gamble, back when it came out, and thought “ooh,
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