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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 […]

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, […]

Yesterday I got sent an e-mail from a friend with the subject line “Do NOT accept the New Dollar Coins!” It had been forwarded several times, so I worked my way down through the headers and finally got to the meat of the issue. The email reported that these new Presidential Dollar coins (issued in […]

A number of folks have asked recently what I’m working on. Yeah, I know, it’s been a bit since there’s been a new book out there. Such is the life of a writer that not everything you write gets published right away—or sometimes at all. Since I write for money, if someone wants a development […]

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 […]