Thursday, November 02, 2006

Differences or Defects?

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Recently Gallaudet University, a distinguished college for the deaf in Maryland, revoked the contract of its prospective president partly be...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Eye of the Beholder/ Place of the Servant

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Folks: EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Linnea made a very important point in the blog entry before this one. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When ...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Eye of the Beholder

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First of all, I know that's somewhat the title of a really great Julie E Czerneda book, but that's not what I'm going to blog ab...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material (excerpt)

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Insufficient Mating Material by Rowena Cherry copyright Rowena Cherry ISBN 0-505-52711-1; LoveSpell 1/31/07 All rights reserved. This unco...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

My Favorite Earthling (instalment #3)

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Readers may remember that Sue's last chapter ended with the gorgous tycoon and weekend National guard pilot (call sign Prince) sitting i...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Demons as Aliens

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Our all-too-common xenophobic reaction to people exotically different from ourselves is well illustrated in the innovative fantasy novel THE...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

eye candy

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I'm swamped today, but wanted everyone to enjoy these pictures. You can see them at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/cassini-essay-4/...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

. . . but the author's job is never done.

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Folks: Your publisher may work from sun to sun, but the author's job is never done. Today, authors even with the big Manhattan and inter...
Monday, October 23, 2006

PART UNO: SPEAKING IN [ALIEN] TONGUES

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There's an old-- and somewhat disparaging-- anecdote in which Mr. Average American travels to Paris, France and complains to his wife, ...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006

"Chess at full tilt" or "Chess at a sprint" or "Chess in bed"

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In Insufficient Mating Material, apart from the title, the climactic chess got left out, and so did mating in bed. There aren't too many...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Vampire Lust

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Since no discussion topic has occurred to me this week, I've decided to post a short excerpt from my first vampire novel, DARK CHANGE...
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A Writer's Life

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A writer's life I haven't been a regular blogger and I am sorry. Life keeps getting in the way. First and foremost I had to finish ...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

How To Get Started Writing

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Folks: Linnea wrote: "An old, and perhaps overused, adage often dangled before writers is to ‘write what you know’. . . . But that ada...
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Monday, October 16, 2006

From Sleuthing to Sorcery (and Starships)

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An old, and perhaps overused, adage often dangled before writers is to ‘write what you know’. There is a wisdom in that saying which rests ...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

My hero, with his weapon in his hand

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Have I told you how much fun I have with researching my alien romances? Possibly the high point of my week this week was a visit to a sword ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material --Writing Grievous

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Question: How does one spell confidant? Answer: Grievous, aka Gregory Bodley Harmon. Grievous began life as the ne'er do well mercenary,...

Susan Grant's MY FAVORITE EARTHLING

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Colby Hodge is out of town, so has generously invited Susan Grant to post another excerpt from MY FAVORITE EARTHLING by Susan Grant copyrigh...
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Shapeshifters

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Presently I'm working on a short novel about a modern-day wizard who gets changed (for about 18 hours each day) into a St. Bernard by a ...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

We Made The Front Page!

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Folks: I am first and foremost a FAN -- an SF Fan! And for me, that's the most prestigious status I have won in life. How did that happe...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH: Rynan "Mack" Makarian

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Many of you have no doubt seen in-depth, incisive interviews by noted journalists such as Barbara Walters or Connie Chung. So have I. This i...
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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Undressing the heroine

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Survival is more than a matter of making out. Djetth and...
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