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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 207 entries, all of them here in full.
June 9, 2011 · 49 words
Freakish Fun
My good friend Melinda Snodgrass has a new Wild Cards story up on Tor.com. You can read it for free. Consider it an introduction to the newly-released Wild Cards anthology, Fort Freak, tales of the mean alternate streets of New York, sixty-odd years after the Wild Cards outbreak. Enjoy.
Read entry →June 6, 2011 · 1,007 words
The Big Finish
I just finished playing Dragon Age: Origins, the console game, to its conclusion. For the fifth time. While I like this game a great deal— enough to go through the sixty or so hours of gameplay no less than five times— it must be said that I truly hate the finale. It’s a brutal slogfest […]
Read entry →June 6, 2011 · 251 words
Mischief of the Moment
Just a few notes from odd corners of the world press. You’d think that the, with the failed rapture a couple weeks ago, the world’s quota of religious silliness has been filled, but apparently not. The Vatican has closed the 1700-year-old Monastery of Santa Croce after “abuses of a liturgical and economical nature,” wh
Read entry →June 2, 2011 · 211 words
Jewel In My Crown
Behold the new cover for the upcoming ebook release of The Crown Jewels. I slapped it together myself with Photoshop and a piece of stock art. Not bad, if I do say so myself. And it achieves the principal objective of an ebook cover, which is to remain legible when reduced to postage-stamp size. I […]
Read entry →May 31, 2011 · 295 words
Aristoi Remembered
The fine writer Jo Walton has written an equally fine analysis of Aristoi on the Tor.com blog. It’s not a rave filled with nothing but praise, but that’s jake with me. It’s a great analysis of what in the book works, and what doesn’t, for Jo Walton— and since she’s a very smart reader, that’s […]
Read entry →May 26, 2011 · 352 words
Royal Blood
Important UPDATE below: According to a new book by Richard Sugg, the British royal family regularly dined on human flesh. As well as bones, skin, and internal organs. A new book on medicinal cannibalism has revealed that possibly as recently as the end of the 18th century British royalty swallowed parts of the human bo
Read entry →May 26, 2011 · 114 words
Crowdsource Success!
I know I’ve reached the big time when I see my name in Techdirt. So helloooo, all you people out there! Buy my books! Thanks to you lovely readers, I now have some excellent, readable files of Days of Atonement, Angel Station, and Knight Moves. These will all be made available soon through electronic outlets. […
Read entry →May 24, 2011 · 323 words
Obey: I Am Your Cult Leader
The recent excitement over the failed Rapture has brought to mind the fact that I have often thought that, if only I were a sociopath, I’d be really, really rich now. I’d start a religion, like L. Ron, and make a lot of money, and not pay taxes. It would be a damn good religion, […]
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