There have been countless words written in recent weeks regarding the gender crisis surrounding SFWA Bulletins 200, 201, and 202, and the two sides seem to be preparing for armed combat. Similarly, those very same camps have dug trenches along the Microsoft “no female protagonist in their games” SNAFU, and that battle is raging as […]
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If you’re anything like me, you grew up loving kaiju—those giant monsters like Godzilla and Rodan and Monster X. Years later you discovered animé and things like Macross, Dougram and Gundam. Your destiny was set, and thereafter you would have a passion for things giant that could turn cities to rubble and lay down enough
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One could call it a coincidence—mere happenstance—but I prefer to consider it portent. I just got back from the 2013 Superstars writing seminar with Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, James A. Owen, Eric Flint and Tracy Hickman as instructors. I’ll be delving into some of what I learned there in an upcoming post, but what I want
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I got my hard-copies from WordFire Press today. Both The Pandora Sequence and Five by Five arrived today. For those of you who didn’t know, I’ve been doing some production work for WordFire, including eBook conversions and interior book design / layouts. Thus far I’ve worked on titles written or including work by Kevin Anderson, Rebecca
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A big piece of the writing biz is networking, which is ironic since most writers tend to be introverts stuck indoors and chained to their desks. But the truth is that you just never know where your next opportunity might come from. So, one morning I’m at my day job when a FB message pops up. It’s
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I’m in a writer’s group run by a friend of mine. It’s called “Paths to Publication” and it’s more about pursuing a writing career than it is about performing the act of writing. We talk about projects and successes and failures. We discuss how were pursuing our writing goals and what our long-term plans are. I
Well, it’s Valentine’s Day. I thought I might take this opportunity to relate one of my biggest challenges when it comes to writing: love and sex in fiction. In my first book, “Chemical Burn,” the main character (Justin Case) is an alien ex-government assassin who essentially fell to earth and then set up as a
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I’ve got a panel coming up for CoSine 2013 and decided to do a bit more research than normal. In this case the panel will discuss whether or not the makers of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” are justified in stretching out the original novel “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” into three movies. I
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