Monday, March 09, 2009

CROSSING THE AISLES

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(WARNING: Deadline brain still in full force) I never gave any thought to genre when I was a child. Hell, I really never gave a whole lot of...
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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Where would you put Tarzan?

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Where would you put Tarzan... if you were a GoodReads Librarian or a bookseller? I'm talking genre and category. To check him out alphab...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Things Humankind Shouldn't Meddle With?

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During the big East Coast snowstorm Sunday night and Monday, I thought about weather control. Cold and wet weather of any kind depress me, e...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Paranormal Romance

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This post leads up to a workshop exercise in World Building. A couple weeks ago, Linnea Sinclair asked on the Paranormal Romance forum at go...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Redemption, the Rake and the Reluctant Hero

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I have deadline brain. This means that the majority of my existence is—or should be—focused on getting my next contracted book out of the c...
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Jumping on the "bright blue scrotum"

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There isn't a "bright" blue scrotum in my book, but there's a "glorious blue scrotum". Can you find it in the ex...
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World-building where the sun don't shine

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Some of us push the envelope... Some of us push it one bathroom fitting too far, no doubt. JA Konrath is going to be on my Crazy Tuesday in...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Guest blog: NFL vs Trek

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Football Fans Are Crazier Than Star Trek Fans! By Saul Garnell http://freedomclubthebook.info My good friend John called me up a while back ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Alien Sex in IBIS

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Speaking of the moral systems of alien societies based on nonhuman reproductive biology, a reader of this blog introduced me to IBIS (1985),...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

A Paradigm Shift

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In another context this week, I was asked to give clues to writers on how to handle Writer's Block. This blog entry is actually one (of ...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

VICARIOUS VERISIMIILITUDE: Morality and Immorality via Ramon Espejo

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Talking about some of the extremes of human behavior and how we deal with these things, culturally, socially, segues in nicely with a book ...
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Things We Take For Granted: Morality

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Congratulations to Linnea Sinclair for winning a P.E.A.R.L. award for Shades of Dark! Margaret's gritty post about Infanticide was like ...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Thoughts on Infanticide

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I've recently been introduced to "The Rake's Song" by the Decembrists, a ballad narrated in the first person by a very unp...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Blogging and Reading and Blogging, Oh My!

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I couldn't put it down. Linnea Sinclair's Hope's Folly that I discussed in the context of the formula novel in my post http://al...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Star Trek - the new movie's site is worth a trip

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http://www.startrekmovie.com/ Go play. The site is interactive, ingenious and too damned much fun. Full screen is a must. Enjoy, ~Linnea HO...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Alien Romance and Zodiacal compatibility

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"Mummy, I don't need an anus, do I?" "Everyone needs an anus," I shot back with my usual practical earthiness, my mi...
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