I was just so blown away by Altered Carbon If you are old enough to remember Blade Runner when it first came out, or you caught up with the sequel, and you liked the weird dystopian, dirty future that Ridley Scott envisaged, then you’ll love Altered Carbon. It’s a Netflix original, filmed in Vancouver (sorry, […]
Reader reviews are one of the most heartfelt ways you can thank an author for entertaining you, or moving you, or even blowing your mind. The sort of reviews you write for Amazon and other book seller sites are called “reader reviews” and they’re a lot different from professional reviews. No one expects readers,
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If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something
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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into
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Boxed sets seem to be an either/or thing for readers. Either you love ’em or hate ’em. I tend to lean toward the “pass, thank you” side of the fence, because I’m so nerdy, I prefer to have each individual book listed in my ebook reader, than a thick single file. And usually, the cover
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I get a lot of mail from readers asking for technical help, usually for very simple things like uploading books to their readers. A lot of these same readers add something along the lines of “I’m not very computer savvy…” Surprisingly, it’s not just my romance readers who say this. I’m probably typecasting/profile wildly when
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Bogus but Beautiful – Crop Circles Everyone has heard of crop circles. Wikipedia actually list the phenomenon in amongst other paranormal events and abilities. But the truth is, most crop circles (or crop formations, as they’ve generally become known) are the result of very human activity. There have been recorded cases of crop circles being
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Fellow author Terry Mixon just bought out the first book in a brand new military SF series so I thought I’d give you a heads up. They thought they could force her to conform. They were wrong. Inside a dystopian school in the Singularity, the twelve-year-old girl known as One Twenty-Four struggles to survive. Failure
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime–and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebooks of Lazarus Long _____________________________ This Heinlein quote has become a personal mission of mine. I first read Time Enough for Love (the book from which nearly all
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We waited very patiently for the end of the first season of Star Trek Discovery. (On Crave TV for Canadians.) Not because we thought it would be so good we’d want to gobble the whole season in one huge binge session, but because it’s a habit we’ve built over the years. So glad we did
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