Archive for February, 2009

Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, was interviewed recently by teleread.org. Smashwords is a site where independent authors and publishers can create ebook versions of their work. I’ve talked about it here before – this is the ebook version of RealmShift at Smashwords – 4.7 stars out of 5 and some nice reviews so far,...
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Where would we be without lists? Seriously, before the internet, what did we do for lists? How did we know what a heavily biased cross-section of sub-culture thought about any given irrelevant point before Web 2.0? Anyway, it’s okay, as we have lists now. Here’s another one for you. This arrives in a bit...
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A sad day for SF fans. From Locus Magazine online: Philip José Farmer, 91, died around 4 a.m. on February 25, 2009 at home in Peoria, Illinois after a long stay in intensive care. Farmer, born January 26, 1918 in Terre Haute, Indiana, burst onto the SF scene with the 1952 publication of his...
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I picked this up from Evolving Thoughts. You might remember a little while ago I made a post about the Get A Life Movie Meme. This is a similar thing for books. In April 2003 the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel. Listed below are the top 100 (which...
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I have a Google homepage and a couple of gmail addresses and all that stuff. I like to keep as much of my online activity actually online these days and I’m therefore able to interact with all my email and social networking from pretty much anywhere. Naturally, I still get the DTs whenever I’m...
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Leticia Supple writes about one take on editing your own work: gaining distance and making big-picture changes. She presents here five basic steps that will help you go back over your work more effectively and efficiently. There are many stages of editing your own work, and many ways of attacking it. This post takes...
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I think Valentine’s Day is a crock of shit, let’s get that out of the way right off the bat. It’s something that has been forced upon us by the greeting card companies and it’s a day when roses and chocolates are twenty per cent more expensive than any other day of the year....
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Announced at Locus Magazine, Joss Whedon is to be the recipient of the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting. As a massive fan of Firefly, Serenity, Buffy and Angel, this makes me very happy indeed. I’ve yet to see Dollhouse, but I have high hopes for it. Whedon: “Like everyone who picks up a...
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I’ve decided to start sharing the love a little bit. It’s always interesting to hear from other people in your field, so I’ve decided to start a Friday Guest Blogger thing. It’s not going to be every Friday, just occasional Fridays here and there. I’m going to be asking my friends and colleagues in...
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By David Carnoy on one of the New York Times blogs, this is a great article highlighting the 25 things you need to know about self publishing. .
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