thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | May 30, 2007
Continuing the prior meme
* Behold the Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Moorecock * Brave New Worlds of the Imperium by Aldous Laumer * The Man Who Sold the Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein II * [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 29, 2007
Ok, I think K/S has begun to reach some sort of apotheosis:
from Maureen McHugh’s blog:
Oh, and if you liked that, you’ll love this:
S Andrew Swann | May 29, 2007
I’ve caught another meme from the SF Signal Blog (patient zero for the meme being Literary Compass) The idea is to blend two book titles together by using the last word of one title and the first word of the second title. If you want, you can blend the authors’ names too.
Here’re my books: [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 25, 2007
[This is a copy of a letter I just sent to the SFWA Forum]
For the past three years I’ve been involved in a legal dispute with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast over one of their d20 products. So far, I’ve remained mum about this in public, but fortunately the issue has just reached a [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 16, 2007
Microsoft seems to be in the vanguard, defending a 19th Century economic model for IP law. Not only has it deformed the purpose of its operating system into one giant copy-protection scheme, but now it’s attacking open-source software vendors with vague threats of patent violations.
Here’s the problem in a nutshell: copy protection is essentially [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 15, 2007
Another story popped up on the web from our favorite Kent, Ohio serial plagiarist sheriff’s detective. Two thoughts occur to me.
One: Why is it that he has heard of e-mail, but not spell-checking software? Quoth the article:
When Herman was caught last fall, he confessed his plagiarism in an e-mail full of misspellings to [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 12, 2007
I just crossed the 70K threshold. Wolfbreed has officially crossed (my) minimum threshold for novel length. While there’s still 30,000 words left to reach my initial estimate, the word-count is no longer my barometer of completion. We’re at the point where the story is going to determine when it is finished. [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 10, 2007
From the Edmonton Journal, we have the story of a Kent, Ohio police officer, Det. Jack L. Herman, who was quite a thief, apparently buying a series of Canadian plays and slapping his name on them. A blog post has an extended transcript of David Staples’ interview with this literary vampire, some quotes [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 6, 2007
I hit the two-thirds point, and plot-wise it’s all downhill from here. I also just sent out my first query letter in my renewed search for a new agent. So things are proceeding. . .
I have, however, just hit the point I do in every single novel where I have pretty much convinced [...]
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