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It’s been a very busy day at World Fantasy. It should come as no surprise that I’ve been talking my head off. I do that normally anyway, but there have been lots of folks interested in digital publishing and the vision of the future. I’ve been handing out and collecting cards, talking to authors about […]

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been to the World Fantasy Convention. This year it’s in San Jose, at the Fairmont. I have stayed in this hotel once before, a long time ago. (That’s a story that bears telling another time.) The hotel looks the same, which means elegant and grand; almost like […]

It’s that time of year again in which holiday catalogs are stacking up. Since I’m in the desert, I don’t get leaves piling up to tell me autumn is here and that winter is fast approaching. Instead I have gift catalogs. And the fact that fewer are showing up, and those that do are a […]

Thanks to Jillian St. Andre, who sent notice of this case to me via Twitter, I learned about John T. Unger. He’s an artist who has a small studio and with a couple of assistants, turns out some really cool looking industrial sculptures. You can find info about his studio here. I really like the […]

I apologize for not getting the third in my intended blog posts about new media and career planning done yet. It’s gotten a bit longer than I expected, so I might have to split it into two or more posts. I’ve got some notes out to friends to help me with costing out a couple […]

In my last post I deconstructed with Cory Doctorow’s “experiment”—my friend Allen Varney commented on Twitter that I deconstructed it the way the “US Air Force deconstructed Baghdad.” This was to say that I pointed out his experiment had nothing to do with his thesis and that without independent accounting of the numbers, any data […]

Deconstructing Cory Doctorow’s “Experiment” In an article in Publisher’s Weekly on 19 October—which presages a year’s worth of monthly articles—Cory Doctorow announced that he was going to engage in an “experiment.” He noted that “Free e-books work for me,” and that “People want proof that this works.” To accomplish this proof, Cory lays out an […]