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World Fantasy Convention Friday

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 […]

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World Fantasy Convention Thursday

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 […]

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NaNoWriMo, Crown Colonies and me

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 […]

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What is Cory Doing Right?

What is Cory Doing Right?

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 […]

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Deconstructing Cory Doctorow’s “Experiment”

Deconstructing Cory Doctorow’s “Experiment”

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 […]

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Are Authors Really Their Characters?

I was surfing the web the other day and ran across a great and funny article about five authors who were tougher in real life than were the characters they invented. Yes, of course, I was hoping I’d be one of the five—in vain, alas. Kinda tough to be more kick-butt than a Jedi-ace-X-wing pilot, […]

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Saturday Double-header

Saturday Double-header

Saturday, 24 October, I’ll be holding two events in Second Life 4 PM (7 Eastern, 4 Pacific) I’ll offer my Nano-sprinting talk. It will take about an hour and a half and will cover all the topics that will make participating in this year’s National Novel Writing Month much easier. This is the talk that […]

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