Sunday, October 06, 2019

Signature Abuse

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Have you noticed that email signature "files" are exploding? Authors have long used the space below their name for self-promotio...
Thursday, October 03, 2019

Bait-and-Switch Book Beginnings

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Stephen King's latest novel (which I consider one of his best recent works), THE INSTITUTE, starts with a long section from the viewpoin...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Mysteries of Pacing Part 2 Romance At The Speed of Thought

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Mysteries of Pacing Part 2 Romance At The Speed of Thought  Part 1 of this series is: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2019/...
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Words Matter... As Do Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar

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Which is correct, "inalienable" or "unalienable"? This aposite quiz for this particular alien romances blog is posed b...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Animal Minds

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I recently read two books by ethologist Frans de Waal, ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? and MAMA'S LAST HUG, respectiv...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Mysteries of Pacing Part 1 - Siri Reads Text Aloud

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Mysteries of Pacing Part 1 Siri Reads Text Aloud  I posted an article from Forbes Magazine on the Sime~Gen Group on Facebook, and di...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

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Once upon a time, an online book seller began to sell a convenient device that made it possible for purchasers of that device (or others lik...
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Digital Media Bait-and-Switch

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Cory Doctorow's latest column targets DRM but touches upon the abusive business practices of digital marketing in general: DRM Broke I...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Soul Mates and the HEA Real or Fantasy Part 9 Mixing Soul, Science and Politics by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Soul Mates and the HEA Real or Fantasy Part 9 Mixing Soul, Science and Politics by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts of this s...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Slow Change

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Last week, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE) aka  HR2426  and S1273 cleared the hurdle of the House Judiciary...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Hard and Soft SF

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The September-October 2019 MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION contains an article that indirectly addresses the perennial question of d...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Soul Mates and the HEA Real or Fantasy Part 8 - Science of the HEA

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Soul Mates and the HEA Real or Fantasy Part 8 Science of the HEA by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in this series are ind...
Sunday, September 08, 2019

Transformative? Permissionless Use Of Distinctive Body Parts, And Other Images

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Cover art issues affect authors. We can learn from the woes of other artists. For instance, there is the case against a mix tape recording...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

Deep Time

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The September 2019 issue of the SMITHSONIAN magazine contains two articles I found especially interesting. "The Homecoming": An ...