This year, I’ve been inundated with emails and blog posts from SF & F authors, magazines, publishers and other organizations, reminding me that the balloting is open for both the Hugo Awards and the Nebulas. This actually isn’t news to me, and I’m sure it isn’t for you, but what I do like about these […]
HUGO AND NEBULA BALLOTS ARE OPEN. Read More »
I’ve managed to finish quite a few series in my writing career. And usually, when I do write “the end” at the end of the last book, I have a moderate-to-severe letdown sensation. The story is done and I’ll no longer be spending time with those characters. Depending on how long I’ve been writing the
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If the image didn’t give it away for you, let me surprise you: Lego® creates more tires every year than any other company in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records says so. Although if they keep producing sets like the Millennium Falcon (which my brother in law built and has sitting on his dining room
Quick! Who Manufactures The Greatest Number of Tires In the World? Read More »
The premier of the province two across from mine recently announced to his province that he was the Grinch, and there would be no Christmas this year, for the sake of everyone’s lives. The video went viral in our corner of the world. The premier of my province has been far more conservative, talking about
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I had a reader tell me this week: Can I just ask, though, no more cliffhangers, I absolutely hate them!! It sounds like a simple, reasonable request on the surface (especially as the grammar and spelling were impressive. I did not edit this at all). Yet my internal radar started dinging like crazy. I did
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So this thing happened…. I wrote a story in my spare time. I don’t get a lot of spare time, so I suppose it’s even more pathetic that I use my spare time to do more of what I do all the time, but there you go. If you’re a fan of the Imperial Hammer
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Of course you’re looking for the best SF out there. You don’t want to read crap, after all. But there’s some very good reasons why using best-seller lists, “top author”, “Best of,” “most popular” and other similar listings of books is the worst way of finding the best stories to read. The traffic stats on my blog also
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