Ok, I’m playing catchup here, but I just found Mark Helprin’s article about Copyright. John Scalzi has a decent response to all that and others have gone on at length. But there was a quote from Helprin I had to Read more…
Ladies and gentlemen, Wolfbreed is complete! I finished the last scene on Friday, and I’ve spent the last two days running through the draft, doing tweaks and copy-editing. The second draft is officially done. (OK, if you’ve followed the blog Read more…
Continuing the prior meme * Behold the Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Moorecock * Brave New Worlds of the Imperium by Aldous Laumer * The Man Who Sold the Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Read more…
Ok, I think K/S has begun to reach some sort of apotheosis: from Maureen McHugh’s blog: Oh, and if you liked that, you’ll love this:
I’ve caught another meme from the SF Signal Blog (patient zero for the meme being Literary Compass) The idea is to blend two book titles together by using the last word of one title and the first word of the Read more…
[This is a copy of a letter I just sent to the SFWA Forum] For the past three years I’ve been involved in a legal dispute with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast over one of their d20 products. So Read more…
Microsoft seems to be in the vanguard, defending a 19th Century economic model for IP law. Not only has it deformed the purpose of its operating system into one giant copy-protection scheme, but now it’s attacking open-source software vendors with Read more…
Another story popped up on the web from our favorite Kent, Ohio serial plagiarist sheriff’s detective. Two thoughts occur to me. One: Why is it that he has heard of e-mail, but not spell-checking software? Quoth the article: When Herman Read more…
I just crossed the 70K threshold. Wolfbreed has officially crossed (my) minimum threshold for novel length. While there’s still 30,000 words left to reach my initial estimate, the word-count is no longer my barometer of completion. We’re at the point Read more…
From the Edmonton Journal, we have the story of a Kent, Ohio police officer, Det. Jack L. Herman, who was quite a thief, apparently buying a series of Canadian plays and slapping his name on them. A blog post has Read more…