Saturday, April 27, 2024

Sunshine and Unicorns

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One has to be careful of unicorns. They may be the stuff of fantasy and fabulists, but like "black swans", they can also be unders...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Way of the Drow Series by R. A. Salvatore by Karen S. Wiesner

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Way of the Drow Series by R. A. Salvatore by Karen S. Wiesner The Way of the Drow i...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Pros and Cons of AI for Authors

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Is AI good or bad for authors? AI (artificial intelligence) is such a broad term, and the technology included under its umbrella -- from lit...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Oh BOI !

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Maybe not everyone knows this, but if you have an LLC, for instance to protect yourself as an author in case you are sued for something you ...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner: Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Fantastic Beasts Original Screenplays by J.K. Rowling

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Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Fantastic Beasts Original Screenplays by J.K. Rowling by Karen S. Wiesner Q...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Becoming a Dark Lord/Lady

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Is it possible to be a good Dark Lord (or Lady)? The term "good" in this context is ambiguous. It can mean competent, skilled at c...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Santa's Mammogram

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Why Santa Claus? Why a Mammogram, and not an MRI? Obviously this is an extended metaphor, it might even qualify as an allegory . Santa Claus...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner: Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte by Karen S. Wiesner Quite a f...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Art Versus Life

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A work of art (specifically, literature, including poetry such as song lyrics) does not necessarily reveal the life or personality of the ar...
Saturday, April 06, 2024

Clichés Don't Count

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Clichés aren't copyrightable, and rightly so. It would be unjust and inconvenient to deprive the populace of the right to express an ino...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner: Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson

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Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson by Karen S. Wiesner Quite a few...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Technofeudalism

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Cory Doctorow advances the position that capitalism isn't evolving into socialism (as classical Marxism predicted) but into a new form o...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner: Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

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Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson by Karen S. Wiesner After I fini...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Guest Author Post

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This week we have a guest blog, in Q & A form, from multi-genre author Karen Hulene Bartell: "What inspired you to begin writing?...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

A Bad Week For Security

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Last week was a bad one, at least for my discretionary (aka writing) time.  As writers, we are under pressure to promote, which means popula...
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