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S Andrew Swann | June 28, 2007

I posted earlier about how we needed new models for an Intellectual Property economy. On John Scalzi’s Whatever Blog there’s a thread that goes into the specifics of an existing rental model that seems to work.
I also had some thoughts about the economy of Second-Life and MMORPG’s in general, and now I find a [...]

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S Andrew Swann | June 24, 2007

I have just been the recipient of the strangest spam I have ever gotten. No Nigerians involved, no performance enhancing drugs and (thank god) no goatse double-penetration felch hentai.
No this spam was obviously a labor of love by a single individual who has absolutely the wrong idea about the publishing industry. (My comments in [...]

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S Andrew Swann | June 22, 2007

Writing and trying to hawk Wolfbreed to agents (news coming on that score, stay tuned) has made me more aware of the growing genre of paranormal romance. I’m seeing it everywhere now, and I noticed something on my last trip to Borders. Now, as you’d expect, if the sexy undead werewolf-hunter novel has [...]

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S Andrew Swann | June 19, 2007

For anyone who believed that Hollywood is any more interested in free expression of ideas than, say, Microsoft, I want to point out a little story that will probably get a lot less airtime than Angelina Jolie’s attempt to ban Fox News from the premiere of a film about the execution of journalist Daniel [...]

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S Andrew Swann | June 13, 2007

I just got my copy of the anthology where my story “Fealty” appears, ‘Places to be, People to Kill.‘ So it’s out, buy it. And while the Klausner review drops my name, it would be nice if some actual people reviewed it on Amazon.

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S Andrew Swann | June 12, 2007

More weird stuff people were searching for when they came across my blog. . .

zardoz moustache
evil pink bear
pink video titles
beat me off
define discrete fun
pink meaning science
my wife beats me up

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S Andrew Swann | June 7, 2007

Ok, I’m playing catchup here, but I just found Mark Helprin’s article about Copyright.
John Scalzi has a decent response to all that and others have gone on at length.
But there was a quote from Helprin I had to comment on:
Were you to have ushered through the many gates of taxation a flour mill, travel agency [...]

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S Andrew Swann | June 3, 2007

Ladies and gentlemen, Wolfbreed is complete! I finished the last scene on Friday, and I’ve spent the last two days running through the draft, doing tweaks and copy-editing. The second draft is officially done. (OK, if you’ve followed the blog and my counters it is draft 1.5)
Even better news: I’ve come a [...]

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