Sunday, February 28, 2021

Faceblock... or Whither Groups?

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 Disclaimer: my title does not refer to either the Qualcomm tool, nor to the Polandball character (who is, apparently, "easily offended...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Tackling Revisions

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Since I'm currently revising a paranormal romance novella under consideration by one of my publishers (addressing changes the editor req...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Reviews 61 - Forged an Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka

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Reviews 61 Forged An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka  Reviews have not yet been indexed.  To find them search for the Label, Reviews. We ...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Talking Trademarks

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Time is short for those who might like to sign up for a free Trademark Basics Boot Camp webinar run by the USPTO. The deadline to register i...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Survival in the World of Publishing

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Kameron Hurley's new LOCUS essay reflects on her first ten years as a published author: How to Survive a Decade in Publishing Her fi...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Worldbuilding for Multiple Alternate Universes Part 5 Why Are There Alternate Universes in Your Reality

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Worldbuilding for Multiple Alternate Universes Part 5 Why Are There Alternate Universes in Your Reality?   Previous parts in this series: Pa...
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

What's Moral Got To Do With It?

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For anyone who has ever thought of having a photograph copied and inked onto their body, or --possibly-- thought of putting a copyrighted ph...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Valentine Snark

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The sending of Valentine's Day cards became a mass-market phenonmenon in the nineteenth century, especially after the introduction of po...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Worldbuilding For Multiple Alternate Universes Part 4 How To Make Ghosts Vampires and Demons Real

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Worldbuilding For Multiple Alternate Universes Part 4 How To Make Ghosts, Vampires, and Demons Real  Previous parts in this series are: Part...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

Thom Tillis And The Whack-a-Mole Problem

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If Thom Tillis is the Harry Potter of Copyright protections for authors, who would you cast as Lord Voldemort? Another Senator? Or someone ...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

The Value of Friendship

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Here's a guest post in LOCUS by Mike Chen, discussing the undervaluation of friendship in contemporary culture, particularly in fiction:...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Worldbuilding for Multiple Alternate Universes Part 3 - What Makes an Idea Too Crazy

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Worldbuilding for Multiple Alternate Universes Part 3 What Makes an Idea Too Crazy?  Previous entries in the Worldbuilding for Multiple Alte...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

NFFF

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NFFF sounds like a something you'd see in a grunt bubble in a comic book fight scene, and perhaps that is why the .org is also known as ...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Portraying Animal Viewpoints

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Recently I've read several bestselling first-person, canine-viewpoint novels by W. Bruce Cameron, the trilogy A DOG'S PURPOSE, A DOG...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Reviews 60 - How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge

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Reviews 60 How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge  We discussed creating a World for a series of novels spanning multiple alternate Univers...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

The Power Of Thoughtful Questions

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 "I ask questions for a living..." Larry King responded to an interviewer of perhaps the most famous interviewer of our generatio...