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On privilege and self-promotion
Recently there's been some discussion on whether writers should post lists of their award-eligible work when award time comes around:
- John Scalzi, On Letting People Know About Your Award-Eligible Work
- Adam Roberts, Award Season 2014
- John Scalzi, Adam Roberts on SF/F Award Awareness Posts
- Amal el-Mohtar, Of Awards Eligibility Lists and ( Read more... )
- John Scalzi, On Letting People Know About Your Award-Eligible Work
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Reading Wednesday: 1/8/2014
Currently reading
Source, the third book in Sylvia Kelso's Amberlight series. Things that annoyed me in the second book are already annoying me in the third.
Still reading Kevin Young's poetry and the biography of Julia Margaret Cameron.
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Still behind on everything I want to post about, so have this instead
Oh, hey, Open Road Media is epublishing all of Mary Renault's contemporary novels, even the terrible ones. Seriously, do not waste any part of your limited lifespan on North Face. If you're immortal, I guess you can spare the time, but there are still so many more fun things you could be doing instead.
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Breathing fire
I've always suspected that when people say that they hate the shaky cam in The Hunger Games, part of what they mean isn't shaky-cam shots, but the editing. Because the editing of The Hunger Games is weird. Cuts come a little sooner or a little later than you expect. You get wide landscape shots when you expect close-ups. The rhythm is odd, off- ( Read more... ) -
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That rhetorical trick where, when you want more diverse representation or participation in some field, someone else will object that this just shows your narrowness of mind and lack of empathy, because they know humans are all the same, so the best way to prove open-mindedness and lack of prejudice is to be perfectly happy to take white, straight, ( Read more... ) -
Reading Wednesday, 12/03/13
I seem to have skipped writing up books for all November, so I'll have to catch up in another post. In the spirit of getting back to posting, I am currently reading:
- Ankaret Wells, Heavy IceThis is the third Requite book. It's set a hundred, a hundred twenty years later than the first two, so it's pretty much an independent book, although it ( Read more... )
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Link me your Catching Fire discussions. Or your favorite discussions of the movie, I don't care. Spoilers for all the books are fine.
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Because I love you books you:
Open Road Media is doing its usual massive post-Thanksgiving ebook discounts and Kobo is offering a multiple use 50% off coupon: CYBERMONDAY. Combine at will ( Read more... )