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Distractions

Posted in 1, Just stuff on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

And if the world does end in 2012, or with the changing of the publishing world to some new deal, well, I think we have enough time in there yet to sit down and write a few good stories. Or in the words of a programmer friend of mine, cut the crap and hand me the keyboard.

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Form or Content?

Posted in Just stuff on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Interesting article by Paul Graham on “Post-Medium Publishing, and it comes with the idea that we pay for form, not content.

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Buying and Selling Words

Posted in Just stuff, tagged on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Green Apple Core (bookish tidbits as noted in the blog subhead from the folks at Green Apple Bookstore) has a somewhat amusing vid on the buying and selling of used books as compared with digital books.

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Tempest Fugiting

Posted in Just stuff, tagged on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So, apparently there’s another controversy in RWA land (is there ever one not going on?). This is over to epub or not to epub…only that is not the question. It’s more like where’s the money, dude?

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Something Fresh

Posted in Just stuff, tagged on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the quest for something fresh to stir up the pond, I’ve taken an online workshop — which ended up showing me I have a better idea of what I want to do, and really wasn’t my cuppa since lists were involved — and I’m reading Karl Iglesias’ Writing for Emotional Impact.  (Well, technically, that’s [...]

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One thing leads to another

Posted in Just stuff, tagged on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the truely enjoyable things about the Internet is that stuff links.  Unfortunately, this is also the best way to spent lots of time on the ‘Net (not writing), but there’s a good article on Wired: “How to Get Published and Avoid Alien Bloodsuckers“.  (Blood being a touch more of a metaphore, and one [...]

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Writers Talking

Posted in Just stuff, tagged , on August 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Third day of a writers’ conference and I’m ready to go home.

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Reading for a good cause…

Posted in Just stuff, tagged on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

2008 RWA “Readers for Life” Literacy Autographing

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Writers in SF

Posted in Just stuff, tagged on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Next week is the RWA conference in San Francisco, and it’s a bit sad when that kind of event looks restful. It’s not, but it’s sure as hell a change of pace, and that’s sounding very, very good.

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Moving Day(s)

Posted in Just stuff on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My mother passed on this week. Which may seem to have nothing to do with my shifiting my web from a site to a blog, but it’s all related.

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