Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Year's Eve - Time... ticking away

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Timing-wise, I really lucked out this year, if having (alien romance) blogging rights to Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve counts as luck...
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Saturday, December 30, 2006

New Years Resolutions

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Its that time of year when we all think about changing ourselves for the better. So here's my list of resolutions. I resolve to finish ...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

A New Twist on Naturally Evolved Vampires

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I've just read a first contact novel called BLINDSIGHT, by Peter Watts. It's not quite like anything else I've ever read, packed...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon

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Folks: I'm in the middle of watching a visual feast called Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon. I've seen about a third of ...
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Saturnalia and alien religions

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I think it was Linnea Sinclair who talked about religion for aliens on this blog. I hope I'm not repeating the same discussion. History...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Merry Christmas

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I just can't think about far away places or future happenings this time of year. All my focus is on the here and the now. We're ha...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Reimagining Santa

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In this season we hear a lot about Santa Claus. For little kids we have to explain that all those men in red suits at the malls are just hel...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The World Is Changing - Again

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Folks: I heard an item on the TV news this morning that Microsoft is creating a website like youtube where people can download and use video...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

WARNING: Contents Under Pressure

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One of the things that differentiates science fiction and SFR from other fiction is the genre's inclusion of setting (or world building)...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

50 ways to help your author

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50 ways to help an author (without buying her book) Originally I had a longer and more accurate title, but I can’t get the song “Fifty ways ...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Too young, too old or just right?

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While writing the third book in my Star series I've struggled with a problem. How old should a hero be? The book starts with my charac...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Creatures of Discworld

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Recently I acquired a copy of THE ART OF DISCWORLD. I originally didn't plan to buy it, because I thought it would be mostly graphic art...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Seeing the Light

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Folks: Well, this is the Season of Lights -- a whole bunch of faiths do light at the bottom of the year! On Marion Zimmer Bradley's Dark...
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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material -- Jan 30th 2007

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Insufficient Mating Material won't be in bookstores until January 30th 2007. However, please visit my stocking stuffer webpage for a r...

Excerpt from Insufficient Mating Material

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Tigron Empire of the Djinn ARK IMPERIAL, Operating Theater Damn them! Prince Djetthro-Jason eyed the masked males and the unpleasant array ...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Tis the season

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Deck the web with boughs of holly falala.... but I've got this deadline folly... so my blog is in a hurry ..... please fogive me if I sc...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Explaining Vampire Physiology

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(I always enjoy good expository dialogue, especially about the biology of other species, so I try to write it the way I like to read it. O...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

So, well then WHAT if....????

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Folks: Linnea brought up that one thought process I will be talking about in my review column the first half of 2007 -- hypothesizing. http:...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Where does the creativity come from?

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Hey kids, Well, it's Monday, meaning it's my turn to blog. Given I'm hip-deep in deadlines for THE DOWN HOME ZOMBIE BLUES and th...
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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Insufficient Mating Material and Genitalia

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If you like to ponder what aliens might think of Earthling males' genitals, see the joke in the Comments on my last blog. If you don...
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My Favorite Earthling (instalment #4)

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The third instalment of Susan Grant's masterly new alien romance was posted on October 28th. Since then, the blog has been pretty active...
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Shooting Star release

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Shooting Star is now out. And to celebrate I'm giving away a computer bag from Coldwater Creek. Visit my website at www.cindyholby.com...
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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