Covers are amazing things. They give a book substance and make it feel real. For example, even though you’ve seen the title of book 3 in the Imperial Hammer series written in the blurb all the way back when the first book came out, until now it’s just been a title. But now there’s a […]
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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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Science Fiction readers, despite being comfortable with the idea of advanced technology, have been slow to adapt to ebooks (especially compared to romance readers). But we’re getting there! Everyone has heard of e-books , even if they haven’t bought one. But more than a few readers are still resistant to them, which is a shame. They have their drawbacks — but
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If you’re a regular reader of my blog, I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I’m just a little bit in awe of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein – for a variety of reasons, including the fact that he’s one of a microscopic collection of authors who can make me cry. Heinlein had
I have some good news and some great news, and an Easter Egg at the bottom. Although does it count as an Easter Egg if I warn you it’s there? Although I feel I must warn you about this one–I had an Easter Egg in the footer of my website for two years, giving away
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Did you hear about the new Star Trek series, STRANGE NEW WORLDS?? It will feature Pike, Spock and Number One from the DISCOVERY series — and I really liked those three, so I am really looking forward to it. More details here. I’m also more than ready to see the third season of DISCOVERY. I
A few weeks ago, I let everyone know about BookFunnel’s Library feature (more details here if you don’t know what I’m referring to). I got a ton of email back from readers who really loved the feature and were super glad to hear about it. But I also got an email from a reader who
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Star Wars is the reason I’m writing. So it would be almost criminal for me to ignore Star Wars day. However, do you remember this photo, above? My opinion? Greedo didn’t shoot at all. I saw the original edition of the movie multiple times (heading into the three digit range), and I know it backwards.
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A recent statistic I heard was a USA one–14 million people had filed for unemployment benefits in the last 30 days. That’s 15% of the USA workforce! I’m quite sure that unemployment figures for the rest of the world will be in proportion to that. The latest statistic I can find for Canada is that
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