Presented for your consideration, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of California. Whose attitude toward the free flow of information on teh interwebz seems cribbed from North Korea. Apparently a swiss bank is somewhat miffed at Wikileaks.org a website organized by a bunch of journalists and other activists whose primary mission Read more…
Well my latest spec project is still rolling along quickly, quickly enough that if Anne continues being overworked at Bantam, I might get the whole thing done before I have to do any editorial revisions on Wolfbreed #1 (titles, I need titles). I started it a week and a half Read more…
No, I can’t explain it. (blame the Smart Bitches) If that didn’t weird you out, maybe you want to watch this.Or not. (Blame Mrs.Giggles)
Reading Scalzi’s great posts on making a living as a writer got me to thinking about the worst piece of career advice I ever got: “Take some brainless low-paying job just to make ends meet so you can devote all your creative energy to work on your writing.” Do me Read more…
I’ve gone on at length about the replicator economy, what will happen to commerce as the cost of “stuff” goes to zero and the ability to copy anything becomes ubiquitous. Understanding the implications of this is going to make the difference between success and failure for whole industries. It also Read more…
Today I got a new book spam. This has come to me via Media E-Blast, a company whose name was coined by someone in a desperate attempt to make unsolicited spam and e-mail harvesting all respectable and Web 2.0ish. Here’s my first piece of advice: Paying some “consultant” to make Read more…
According to Reuters, Random House is trying an experiment: Random House … is planning to test selling individual chapters of a popular book to gauge reader demand. [They] will sell the six chapters and epilogue of “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die” for $2.99 each according Read more…
So I finished and turned in the Prophets draft. My next project is Wolfbreed #2 (Still need titles for those) but I can’t really start until Anne at Bantam gets back to me, approving the outline for the next book. Since I didn’t want to jump into the next Apotheosis Read more…
Periodically I check out what people are Googling when they come across my site. Sometimes it makes sense (all the folks checking up on Cassie Edwards, for instance) but often, it, well, doesn’t. . . “jack off bud stories” “godzila porno mouvi” “pink butt” “pink microsoft” “dark cats” “stupid plagiarism Read more…
Hong Kong Actor Edison Chen. Who, through a critical mass of sleaze and stupidity worthy of certain toe-taping senators is embroiled in an internet sex scandal. Apparently Mr. Chen liked to watch himself, so he took pictures of himself getting busy with a bunch of actresses. Ok, I’m a Libertarian, Read more…