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 […]
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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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Now we (the SRP authors) have the points system running properly, this month we’re not holding the 20% off sale we have run for a while now. Instead, for the next four days, we’re offering to double the points you earn with every purchase, for the next four days only. You can exchange the points
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(a) Get your mind out of the gutter! 😉 (b) If you would like to enjoy your reading more, read on. There is a tool out there that is currently enjoying a revival in many businesses and industries. It is the simple checklist. Dr. Atul Gawande wrote the book, The Checklist Manifesto, after he incorporated checklists into
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At least a couple of years ago, a reader — let’s call him Jack— contacted me and asked in fairly demanding tones why I didn’t offer all my books as audiobooks. I politely replied that it was an expensive undertaking for indie authors, although producing audiobooks was on my list of things to do. (It still is,
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Dragon Con 2021 has opened the nomination process for their 2021 Dragon Awards. Have you seen these awards? They’re an intriguing design: The Dragon Awards are 100% fan-driven awards, giving readers a chance to recognize those authors who they feel deserve the applause. If you nominate, you can also vote. If you’d like to have
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Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein. From The Notebook of Lazarus Long I always read this quote from Heinlein not as advice to indulge in anything that you fancy, but rather, the author urging the reader to take the other road whenever the fork appears. There is a
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