Friday, September 29, 2023

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster by Karen S. Wiesner I'm a fan of Gothic suspense thrille...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

In Celebration of Happy Endings

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In fiction, is a sad conclusion more "realistic" than a happy one? "The belief seems to be that tragic or unhappy endings are...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

What's Moral Turpitude Got To Do With It?

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Isn't " turpitude " sufficient? Isn't "moral turpitude" somewhat tautologous ? In any case, it is all about when...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Ritual by Adam Nevill

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Ritual by Adam Nevill by Karen S. Wiesner The Ritual by Adam Nevill is a supernatural horr...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Character Brainstorming with AI

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Here's a WRITER'S DIGEST article about how an author might use ChatGPT as an aid to composition without actually having the program ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Defamation in progress

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One of my favourite quotes attributed to Voltaire is, "If you would converse with me, you must first define your terms."   Of cou...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Rooks and Ruin Trilogy by Melissa Caruso

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Rooks and Ruin Trilogy by Melissa Caruso by Karen S. Wiesner Per my usual, I came into author ...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

AI Compositions and Their Influence on Letters as Signals

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In Cory Doctorow's latest column, he brings up a potential unintended byproduct of overusing "large language models," aka chat...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

For Art's Sake

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I don't like gold. I'm not talking about precious metals, investments, gilts, natural colours of Autumn, excessively ostentatious fl...
Saturday, September 09, 2023

Do This, Not That

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I am posting half a day early because there is a 24-hour, short story contest opening today run by Writers Weekly, a publisher and one of my...
Friday, September 08, 2023

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Bird Box by Josh Malerman

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Bird Box by Josh Malerman by Karen S. Wiesner Bird Box is a post-apocalyptic horror th...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

SF Terminology Goofs

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I've started watching the second season of MY DAD THE BOUNTY HUNTER, a cartoon series on Netflix. Some dialogue passages reminded me of ...
Saturday, September 02, 2023

Rocking Like A ...Windstorm

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Do you rock your blog? I'll get to reportage on the most interesting, copyright-related issue of the last two weeks, but first I should ...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke by Karen S. Wiesner Jonathan Strang...