Thursday, November 30, 2006

Darkover Con

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Over Thanksgiving weekend (as usual) we attended Darkover Grand Council, a cozy little con held every year just north of Baltimore. It inclu...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Converting a Novel to a Screenplay

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Folks: On a writer's list I'm on, one of the professional writers asked for advice for where to find books on screenwriting because ...
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Monday, November 27, 2006

Debunking Authorly Urban Legends

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Eons ago, when I was in college (or it might have been grad school), I remember listening to a professor expounded on what L. Frank Baum rea...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Empires, Dreams

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Stayed up late last night, I did. Empire Of Dreams was absolutely fascinating, to me, and to those with whom I watched it. I'm sure ea...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Life in the real world

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I know I've missed some of my days. My only excuse is the holidays are upon us. With several deadlines such as books, getting the hous...
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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Living with Technology

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Nobody in our family has a Playstation 3. (Our youngest son got a Nintendo Wii, which seemed to be less chaotic in its launch, not to mentio...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Come Play In My Backyard

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Folks: Here's an interesting statistic: In the film industry, it is believed that: Happy Endings make more money than any other type. (P...

Come Play In My Backyard

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Folks: Here's an interesting statistic: In the film industry, it is believed that: Happy Endings make more money than any other ty...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Jurassic Passions: A Look at Character and Motivation

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A dinosaur came into my online classroom a while back, courtesy of one of my students, Celia. Now, let me make clear right up front that I w...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material--embarrassing things to ask dignified people

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Reviews are starting to come in for Insufficient Mating Material, and --much too late-- I'm having visions of readers sidling up to libr...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Interspecies Cooperation

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I'm almost finished rereading WIZARDS AT WAR, the latest in Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series. In this novel the teenag...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Susan Kearney News

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Hi, I'm pleased to announce I just sold two more books to Tor. In 2008 SOLAR HEAT will be available , my sequel to ISLAND HEAT and in t...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

More than you want to know!

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Folks: I've been very busy this week with mundane life, but also several writing projects active at once. But I got a nice surprise that...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

101 Uses for Email Spammers

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This is a blog about writing. This is a blog about how authors sometimes use unusual sources for characters' names. This is a blog about...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

The best swordfighting scenes

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What do Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day , Roger Moore in Moonraker , Sean Connery in Highlander , Chris O'Donnell in The Three Muskete...
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Shooting Star...Ruben's crash

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Ruben set the angle to enter the atmosphere and searched for his water bottle. It wasn’t in its usual place and he recalled that he had for...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Star-Crossed Lovers

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In the latest ROMANTIC TIMES, I read about MaryJanice Davidson's forthcoming mermaid novel. Her heroine is only half mermaid and therefo...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Invective and Elimination -- soooo Romantic

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Folks: The last two posts here are very typical of what writers in general spend their time thinking about -- invective (or anthropology and...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Part Deux: Swearing in Alien Tongues

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Is everything okay? An innocuous question; one posed daily, if not hourly in our society. Yet several years ago, answering that question alm...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Worldbuilding with my head in a bathroom fixture

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Did we ever seen anyone go to the toilet on Star Trek (TM)? I mean that in all sincerity and with the greatest of respect, and in the best p...
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Shooting Star

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Here's an exerpt from my December release Shooting Star. It was parade day. It was also his birthday. The boy, impatient with the ma...
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