thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | January 20, 2011
I had really nice comment today on my latest blog post: “With your ability, certainly you have learned praises before but I just want to involve to the many who have thanked you for what you’ve attained. Your work are one of a kind and show great insight. Thanks for your contributions!” I almost approved [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 19, 2011
Over at Book Chick City I’m being featured in their series “Where Stories Are Made,” where authors get to do a mini photo-essay about the environment where they actually do their writing. So you all can get to see the (clean parts of the) office at home and at the day job. Unfortunately, she didn’t [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 3, 2011
Progressives really get steamed when people point to the Tea Party and/or Libertarians as the spiritual successors to the last great anti-establishment mass movements of the 60s and 70s. To them I provide the following interview with Starchild, a San Francisco erotic services provider and Libertarian candidate for school board (h/t): I might also note [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 8, 2010
Here’s the podcast. They review their best-of-2010 lists and I actually got props from two of their panelists for Heretics. I’m starting to get nervous, what if John doesn’t like the final book? Also, watch that podcast, I’ll be recording an interview for them this week. I will let everyone know when it gets scheduled.
S Andrew Swann | December 7, 2010
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have with his post. (Probably all having to do with us being so politically opposed to [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 4, 2010
From another Steve I have linkage to Jeff VanderMeer showing some of the process of revision he goes through, sending pages of his manuscript to red pencil nirvana. It’s interesting to me, because I’m somewhat a polar opposite when it comes to revision. If I didn’t ask for critiques from third parties, I might not [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 1, 2010
Now that I’m done and I can spare a few hundred words for my blog, I’d thought I’d give a little recap on what I think this NaNoWriMo thing was good for, despite some asinine anal-retentive elitist asshat skeptics out there: First, what lessons this provides a newbie author: The first rule of writing: to [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 17, 2010
Plagiarism and Privilege at Making Light. Scalzi on MFA Programs and what is left untaught. (With followup.) Charlie Stross is dissatisfied with Steampunk. (Yes, I’m late to this particular party.) First thing we do, let’s kill all the writers.
S Andrew Swann | November 5, 2010
There is not much more I can say about the Cook’s Source Magazine scandal that hasn’t been already said. If you don’t know what I’m talking about (and if so, what Internet have you been surfing?) we have the author of an article about medieval tarts (SCAdians take note) who had her article lifted wholesale [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 21, 2010
I have been mind-melded again over at SF Signal, and the theme this time is memorable anti-heroes in S/SF: Here are three of the most memorable anti-heroes in written SF/F, at least the three that come most readily to my mind when the question comes up. First is Slippery Jim DiGriz of the Stainless Steel [...]
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