Sunday, December 30, 2018

Tattoo Troubles

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Would you permanently affix someone else's copyrighted intellectual property onto your body, so that  you might have to pay that copyri...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Alternative Christmases

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When is Christmas not Christmas? When its equivalent appears under another name in a holiday episode of a TV series or movie franchise. TV T...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

How To Use Tarot & Astrology In Science Fiction Part 2 - Now Speculate

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How To Use Tarot & Astrology  In Science Fiction Part 2 Now Speculate Part 1 is found at: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Right Of First Sale Does Not Apply To Digital

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A copyright owner has the exclusive right to publish, reproduce, and distribute her work. This applies to music files, and to ebooks. Fair...
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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Acceptable Breaks from Reality?

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The TV Tropes site has a page called "Acceptable Breaks from Reality," about the "unrealistic" things regularly allowed ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

How To Use Tarot And Astrology In Science Fiction Part 1 - Real History

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How To Use Tarot & Astrology In Science Fiction Part 1 Real History   Tarot and Astrology Just For Writers are indexed here: T...
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Sunday, December 16, 2018

EBay is still profiting from copyright infringement

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After all these years...  Ebay is still profiting from and facilitating copyright infringement, or so it appears. https://www.ebay.com/itm...

"Bad Command" And The Perils of Petitions

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If a petition has very few signatures, a reasonable observer might assume that not a lot of people agree with the petition.  Likewise, if an...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

The Monsters of Christmas

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On Facebook I came across a link to an article about the dark side of the Christmas season in many European folk traditions. It includes som...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Reviews 43 - The Late Great Wizard by Sara Hanover

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Reviews 43 The Late Great Wizard by Sara Hanover  The Reviews have not been indexed yet. The success of the Romance Genre in pen...
Sunday, December 09, 2018

Trojan Horses For Kids, Rampant Scraping

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Authors are warned not to "scrape" social media sites for the email addresses of potential readers. Since the GDPR , (Europe's...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Alternate Timelines

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One of my favorite authors, S. M. Stirling, recently launched a new alternate-history series with BLACK CHAMBER, published in July of this y...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Reviews 42 - Simon R. Green's Secret Histories and the Nightside Series Conclude

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Reviews 42 Simon R. Green's Secret Histories & The Nightside Series  Conclude   The Reviews series have not yet been inde...
Sunday, December 02, 2018

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Authors should be particularly vigilant in compartmentalizing their vital information. Apart from the usual dangers of crooks wanting a hook...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

ChessieCon 2018

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As we do every year at Thanksgiving, my husband, our youngest son, and I spent the weekend at ChessieCon (formerly Darkover), just north of ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Reviews 41, Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio - Fan Fiction Styling Has Gone Mainstream

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Reviews 41 Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio Fan Fiction Styling Has Gone Mainstream  Reviews posts have not yet been gathere...