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Welcome
Hey there, traveler!
LiveJournal is a great service, but it offers zip in the way of visitor-tracking. Therefore, I have a favor to ask of you: please leave me a comment letting me know who you are, and how you ended up here. No more detail than you're comfortable with, of course. Thanks much. -
On Language
In translating this history from the Unobtanian, I have, for the sake of clarity and concision, taken certain liberties with the text. For example ( Read more... ) -
Indie Bookstores and Ebooks
Dear Porter Square Books,
You asked a great question this evening:
What do you want from the #ebooks arm of independent bookstores?
I'm replying here rather than on Twitter because I have rather more than 126 characters worth of stuff to say.
First, my biases: I'm a local writer, mostly of ebooks, published by a local publisher, mostly of ( Read more... ) -
Fantastic News
Fantastic Erotica is now showin' up all over the web. The ebook is already available on Amazon, BarnesAndNoble, and Smashwords, and the print book is showing up hither and yon for preorder, even though it doesn't ship until October.
On October 4th, there'll be a launch party at the Brookline MA Good Vibrations, including readings and signings by ( Read more... ) -
Readercon! ...and...other stuff
Man I have been totally failing at social media these days. I'm sorry, guys! Various dayjobs have been kicking my ass.
Readercon is next week, in Massachusetts, and I'm on a panel Friday evening (on a favorite topic of mine--language choice in SF and fantasy), and I'm doing a solo reading Saturday evening.
So that reading, it's from Ota Discovers ( Read more... ) -
Hello hello hello?
I've realized that there's a bit of a feedback loop going. I feel like the number of people still readng this journal has declined in the last year or two, and that's made me less inclined to devote energy to putting together essays to post. This, of course, makes people less inclined to keep an eye out for my writing ( Read more... ) -
I'll have you know this is all Hanne Blank's fault
It happened like this: https://twitter.com/#!/hanneblank/status/141997572339408896Read more... ) -
NaNoWriMo Sentence of shame
Megatheriids were a rare sight at the country markets. Slow, bad-tempered, and massive, farmers could ill afford to keep them. -
Work-in-progress meme
From erastes:
Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.
Wrongborn
The Troglodytes' Congress
The Immortal Seven
Goners
Display
Skeeters
The Always-On
Strange Enough
Amy Gets What She Wants
Name one of them and I'll give you a snippet from it and/or tell you something about it. -
More social networks, more reviews
I've been alternately irritated and delighted with Google+ on my RL account, so I've gotten one for this identity, figuring that there's not much harm done if the Nymcops come for me. +Vinnie Tesla if you want to look me up or compare Angry Birds scores or something.
Oh, and I also have a Goodreads account, which I check in on from time to time ( Read more... )