Saturday, March 31, 2007

Strange Brews

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I think my aural memory is very good, but sometimes it isn't. For instance, I was absolutely certain that I knew the opening lines to Th...
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Role Playing

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Some of us here at Alien Blog are doing a pod-cast on Sunday night. I'll let Rowenna post the details since my mind is still trying to g...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

The Future of Books

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It's still "crunch" time at my day job, so I won't be able to blog at length for a few more weeks. This time, I just want ...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Jim Butcher's Dresden Series and TV Show

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Folks: There are advantages to being a reviewer for simegen.com! I have been invited to interview Jim Butcher when he's in Phoenix in mi...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Galactic Gabbing: Confessions of a Word Slut

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I’m a word slut. In fact, if there was a Wordaholics Anonymous, I’d be right there in the front row, ‘fessing up to my addiction. So it was ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Disparate things and unfinished business

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This image has absolutely nothing to do with Cindy's sagging middle, or Jacqueline's evolutionary preferences... it has to do with m...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

The Sagging Middle

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Nope, I'm not talking about my tummy although it sags, no matter how many ab crunches I do every day. I'm talking about the current...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Watching Language

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Recently I read a vampire novel set in England of the 1820s. Although it was pretty entertaining, I noticed a couple of anachronisms that ma...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

I've messed up this blog!

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Folks: My entry for Tuesday March 20th, 2007, posted as Sunday March 18. Scroll down below Linnea's entry for Monday March 19 and you...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Flying Solo

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(This essay was originally written several years ago for Futures magazine, and it garnered me a Pushcart Literary nomination...so I thought ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Evolutionary Tree and Worldbuilding

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Folks: Those who've read Linnea Sinclair's post for March 19, 2007, just previous to this one, will be particularly interested in t...
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A picture is worth a thousand words

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Cover art is supposed to do the job, and we've talked about that on this blog. But what happens when your cover art doesn't communic...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Where the ideas strike.

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Well, not so much where as when -- or maybe where and when. For me, IDEAS always strike when I have no time to write them down -- or when th...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

What flavor am I?

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In keeping with Murphy’s Law, I’ve had a very busy teaching schedule the past two months. This, of course, happening when I’m late on book d...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

SUSAN GRANT - Secret Conversations of a Writer

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GUEST BLOGGER: SUSAN GRANT! I met the heroine of My Favorite Earthling in the throes of a rage. No, not mine—hers! I was typing away on dead...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

So whats wrong with romance?

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I appeared at a women's expo in Knoxville TN yesterday with the fabulous Susan Kearny. And while signing books I got the question that ...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Welcome to the Dark Side!!

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Okay, welcome to MY dark side might be a better title! Alyssa Day here, guesting at the fabulous Alien Djinn blog, hanging out with the coo...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

ConDor 14

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Folks: I haven't seen 24 either, but Linnea Sinclair put her finger on it in her blog entry previous to this one. The daily do-list doe...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

24

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My husband and daughter love that show: 24. Jack Bauer saves the world and we get it an hour at a time. I've actually never watched the ...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Thinking outside the box... or laundry appliance

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Ever since a great author who is now one of my friends --but we were complete strangers at the time-- told a publisher that she ought to buy...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Time Travel travails

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I just sent in a proposal on a Time Travel book. It's a great concept but also a difficult one. In the story, Twist, my heroine is tra...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

The Illusion of Consciousness

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TIME magazine for January 29, 2007, had a special feature on the science of the human brain. Among the many thought-provoking elements in t...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Happily Ever After

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Folks: The previous two posts here tackled the problem of the villain and the happy ending. Before I get to my ConDor panel schedule, I'...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Chasing the HEA, again

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All this talk of bad guys and good guys and killing off characters has made me think of the romance staple--the HEA--again. HEA = Happily Ev...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Death and the Villain

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Yesterday, Cindy blogged about how she feels when the hero dies. As a reader, I don't like it when that happens, either. I know that if...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

I can't believe they did that!

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I recently watched the movie Ladder 49. The story begins with a fireman falling after saving someone and becoming trapped. Then it's a...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

More on Genre

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My interest was sparked by the discussion of genre on this blog and a comment I read in a LOCUS interview a few weeks ago. The earlier pos...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Blog Hell

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As many of you know, blogging is not an easy thing for me. This year I had to change my email addy and the resultant whammy of changing th...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Shen and Shid, it's Tuesday!

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Folks: Excuse my Simelan invective! Translations: it doesn't translate, but these two words refer to the psychological and physical dam...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

Oh, Lord, is it Monday?

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Half hour to tomorrow and I realize I missed my blog day. Apologies. Saturday night shortly before 8PM as my husband and I were on our way t...
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