thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | December 31, 2009
The funny photo-blog.
It, I think, started with cats:
Followed by the wonders of fail:
and politics. . .
But now its gone a little overboard. . . we have sites for Jury-Rigging, Cars, Bad Tattoos, Irony, WTF, Female WTF, Photobombing, Win, Real Estate, Weddings, Bad Fashion, Bad Fashion at Wal-Mart, Too Cute Animals. . .
Watch the links, these [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 30, 2009
Someone has again scratched a pet peeve of mine, that old pseudo-literary bugbear “relevance.” As in, SF is losing it, and it better get some quick or else be declared “irrelevant.” This is a bit of an oversimplification of the essay by Jetse de Vries, Should SF Die? But it pretty much encapsulates my problem [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 29, 2009
My RSS reader starts lighting up from my Google feed. She gives me a positive review in her own unique style.
Here.
Here.
And here.
I suspect there’s more out there somewhere.
S Andrew Swann | December 28, 2009
Enough with the holiday cheer. Here’s a list of ten things that I’m getting paranoid about for the coming year.
The Obama administration has modified a long-standing executive order so now agents of Interpol have full diplomatic immunity. i.e. We have now a class of law enforcement in this country beyond any rules of search and [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 25, 2009
S Andrew Swann | December 24, 2009
Thriller writer J.C. Hutchins has compiled a sampler PDF of gift ideas:
That’s the idea behind this In the Nick of Time! holiday sampler PDF. Inside are excerpts from a dozen new novels and nonfiction books by these New York Times bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, and wickedly talented storytellers.
Cool idea.
S Andrew Swann | December 22, 2009
via here, here & here
S Andrew Swann | December 21, 2009
More inappropriate author behavior from Candice Sams from the ever-growing comment thread on Amazon. Here an enterprising commenter found an interesting plea on her Facebook page. (And here’s an LJ post with the full text in case Amazon deep-sixes the original comment.) So here we have someone pulling a reverse Deborah MacGillivray, piling [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 18, 2009
I’m late to this party, but when I found it via Making Light I couldn’t resist blogging about it:
Candace Sams, author of Electra Galaxy’s Mr. Interstellar Feller (mass-market paperback, Dorchester/Love Spell), has exploded all over a comment thread on Amazon. She’s posting as Niteflyr One, but the comment thread has her ID’d as the author [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 17, 2009
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