thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | May 29, 2009
To all Republicrats: If you look at the insane amount of spending out there, have you considered that this may in part be a result of this? Everyone who talks about reforming government corruption begins and ends at campaign finance reform. It may be worth it to think of how much payola [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 28, 2009
Boing-Boing tells us of a lil Canadian think-tank report. The Conference Board of Canada (sounds so official, I trust them already) who’re self-characterized as “the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests” (you know they’re independent, they said so.) had been paid [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 27, 2009
Inspired by a couple of panels I was on at Marcon:
Never post anything you wouldn’t want read by your boss, spouse, child, or grandmother.
Never “correct” reviews of your work. You can ignore them, or point out they exist, but don’t start an argument with a critic. Even if you win you lose.
Don’t pimp your work [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 26, 2009
The long weekend allowed me to finally catch up and watch the season finale of Lost. I thought it was impressive, not only in the elaborate head-trip they managed to pull, but in the way it provides, like the last two finales, not just a wrap-up of the prior season, but as a setup [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 25, 2009
I’m back from doing the panelist thing at Marcon. And in the picture I’m playing the author-on-display with Toby Buckell, Paul Melko, and Charles Findlay. Charlie ended up selling way more books than the rest of us combined (the bastard). Still a fun time, and it’s nice to hang out will fellow writers, solitary profession [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 22, 2009
There’s Maureen Dowd’s plagiarism.
The persecution of Ron White.
White people getting tied in knots by attempting to be racially sensitive.
Think global buy local applied to the manufacturing sector.
S Andrew Swann | May 21, 2009
This does not mean the guy does not have issues. May I present, for your consideration, Andrew Mizsak, 28 year old member of the Bedford School Board, who also works as an independent political consultant. Perhaps he’s done consulting for his mom, who serves on the Bedford city council. If he has, [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 20, 2009
Well, my editorial phone call was deferred until probably next week, so space opera is deferred. This is probably a good thing, gives me a chance to concentrate on Marcon and my release party for Prophets. (When is it, you ask? Well it is 4pm on Saturday in Room 501 in the Hyatt [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 19, 2009
Going to talk about Heretics with Sheila @ DAW this evening, and go over (hopefully minor) editorial rewrites. This means I have shifted from medieval werewolves back to post-singularity space opera. . .
I’m this far from writing about post-singularity werewolves. But that’s another novel.
S Andrew Swann | May 18, 2009
Since I think I have to turn in my SFWA card if I don’t express an opinion on this movie, I went this weekend. And well, IMHO, it rocks. That is probably old news to everyone, and my opinion is probably no surprise to anyone who knows my history as a J. J. Abrams fanboy. [...]
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||
Proudly Powered by WordPress | Entries RSS Comments RSS