thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | January 17, 2008
By about 5000 words so far, but another 1000 to 2000 words and Prophets will be done. I was going to try and wrap it up tonight, but ended up dealing with insurance people (will people stop it with the rear ending of me and my wife, please!) and buying a new office set for [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 17, 2008
Steve Jobs, for the following quote RE the Amazon kindle: (via Gallycat) The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore. Yeah. The internet would really take off if people get over this whole reading thing. All those blogs filled with words and stuff. Man, you make nice hardware, but sometimes [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 16, 2008
You may have noticed, even before the whole Cassie Edwards flap, that I follow the blog, Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books. It is, as advertised, smart, bitchy, and chock full of the kind of humor I tend to appreciate. Well, on said blog they have a feature called GS vs. STA (aka Good Shit [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 16, 2008
Over at the SF Signal blog they have a cool feature called “Mind Meld” where they ask a bunch different SF-type people a question and post the answer. This week’s post is the second half of a two-parter on the definition of SF. I’ve made the following contribution, which expands a little on my prior [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 15, 2008
I thought I had posted all I was going to on this. But, then, my wife was waiting at Walgreens to get a prescription filled and was walking past the book isle, and came across this. I draw your attention to the lower right corner.
S Andrew Swann | January 14, 2008
Cassie Edwards’ plagiarism that is? Well I tried an experiment. I decided to spend part of my evening hunting down some CE sample text, look through it, and see if I can Google a lifted passage. I decided this at roughly 7:30. It is now 7:47. The seventeen intervening minutes was spent as follows: Fifteen [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 14, 2008
What follows may be as close to a complete statement from Cassie Edwards as we’ve had since the whole plagiarism issue raised its ugly head. It is allegedly an e-mail response to a fan expressing support, and is documentary evidence of why lawyers generally tell you to shut the f**k up when the feces hits [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 12, 2008
It’s a new year and I’ve revised my project counters. I have ditched the counter for The Unicorns of Hunting Valley because it seems very unlikely I’ll be able to justify getting back to it any time in the near future. (As in, any time in 2008.) I’ve added a counter for book 2 in [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 10, 2008
In a manifestation of what I noted in an earlier post; that if your romantic paranormal fantasy is filed on the romance shelf you get a hunk on the cover, on the fantasy shelf you get a babe on the cover in short: Fantasy: Romance: Now there’s a blog post on the Juno Books blog [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 8, 2008
Well, Cassie Edwards’ research methodology has caused quite an internet dust-up. Inevitable, I guess, when a set of controversial bloggers uncover this kind of skeleton in the literary closet of a popular NY-Times bestselling author. What I find interesting is that there are a few bloggers out there that have what I find to be [...]
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