Hello lovely readers (especially the finnish ones),

It has finally happened: I don't want to experiment on you all - I'm supervising an MA student who would like to experiment on you solicit your optinions. My supervisee is writing her thesis on the influence of different digital platforms on fandom throughout the years and would very much like to ( Read more... )

Hello lovely people - I'm helping out with an experiment looking at variations on stories and we need some volunteers. The experiment involves writing a short summary of one of two stories ('Romeo and Juliet' or 'Little Red Riding Hood') and then writing a second summary of the same story - but with a twist ( Read more... )

Mediam: TV show
Genre: Buddy PI/detective
Length: Sadly canceled after 13 episodes
Why?: Well written and acted, character-driven, down-to-earth detective show with rounded, flawed characters - yep, no wonder in was canned.

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I saw this posted on
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As I mentioned in my previous post - kludge had a story published in an anthology called Machine of Death (first 60 pages free sample). Being an independent/self published novel for various reasons they knew they had a bit of an uphill struggle to get noticed ( Read more... )

kludge's book is coming out today. It's an anthology of short stories all based around the premise of a machine that can predict how someone will die (i.e. this comic).

A free preview is available (which incidentally includes kludge's story) on their webpageTo promote the book they are holding a Machine of Death Day to try and get listed in the Amazon.com ( Read more... )

A few of you may remember that during the recent kerfuffle about fan fiction one of the noted authors suggested the way to make everything okay was to change the names. We bring to you now the FOTSeN automator!

With this wonderful piece of technology (built by
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My lovely
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Finally, here are the second set of answers to the 15 characters meme I posted a few posts ago. Answers in this section are to the final question by
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Just to prove that I am answering them - here are the first set of answers to the 15 characters meme I posted a few posts ago. Answers in this section are to the questions asked by
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