about the blog
Changes afoot
Be warned, the blog may be mutating. Do not be alarmed. I am going to be updating the template and most of the pages here. The dust should settle by Monday.
politics
If I was less tired. . .
I’d probably go on a long rant about the IRS planning to tax virtual economies, but frankly, my head’s not up for it. I’ll just note this sucktastic marriage of stupidity and inevitability is just the intractable creep of the state into every facet of our lives. I mean, cops Read more…
publishing
And now some more good news
Watching the publiching industry crumble, we have a glimmer of some good news for those hearty souls that survive the next few years. According to the National Endowment of the Arts, “For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature.” Better yet, it is Read more…
writing
Villain/Antagonist
A great post on Elizabeth Bear’s LJ led me, in a roundabout way, to thinking of the difference between the Villain and the Antagonist. She’s talking, generally, of writing characters who are “Other” from the author’s POV. The point being, you write about people, not some collection of external signifiers Read more…
publishing
Publishing and the New Media
A thought occurs to me about publishing in general. Not the current business model, but just the idea of selling books to people. As I said earlier, books are not mass media. Even a best-seller is a more of a niche than the most nichey of cable TV shows. This Read more…
video
Music Video Monday
And now, some of the cool youtube crap I’ve come across lately. First, from Maureen’s blog: This, from Mightygodking: And finally, this from my friend Astrid:
pet pictures
Snow
We got snow dumped on us today, this was the view outside my office window this morning:
publishing
A note on the publishing apocolypse
The world of publishing is imploding and Jane over at Dear Author has written a fairly lengthy piece on the need for innovative publishing in order to save the industry. I’m not as frightened, at least in the long term. Publishing will continue, books will be written and sold for Read more…
about the blog
A peek into the future
I’ve been working away on a new template for my this site. I have a few unique hurdles, the main one being the shear volume of content I imported from my old website. There are home pages for all of my books, excerpts for most of them, essays, short stories. Read more…
about the blog
Watch This Space
Just an FYI to my readers that I am working on a revised template for my blog/website. I’m digging deep into the bowels myself (sometimes I gotta use my mad geek skillz for my own benefit) and I am cursing the fact that IE doesn’t want to implement CSS in Read more…