the blogging revolution Anyone familiar with 1984 knows technology deserves to be distrusted. It threatens to overtake everything, and not just the existing establishment. Eventually, the lives we once led are fundamentally changed, and not always for the better. But check out how all our lives have been changed by the Internet. We’re seeing the overthrow of existing media outlets
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I’m such a geek. I invited a bunch of amazing cats I met at Mt. Hermon and ACRW and around the Internet to come check out the new writer’s group, and then sent out a broken link! But as long as no one ever supposed I was anything else… But hey, that’s cool. Glad you’re all here. Let me give
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When this is the way top-selling writers behave, is it any wonder the industry is in trouble? Here’s a snip from Anne Rice’s venomous retort to the criticism of her novel Blood Canticle on Amazon.com: “’I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and
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Hope everyone had a good weekend and is excited to go into another work week. I, for one, am ready for the weekend to be over as I was sick for most of it, including today, and I’m not looking forward to facing the pile tomorrow morning. Oh well. Should have gone to the Glorietta conference afterall. . . Alrighty
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Just in case I somehow missed mentioning it, I’ll say right up front here that book publishing is a crazy, laborious, exasperating, and unbelievably fun process. And not unbelievable in the sense that it’s insanely fun all the time, but just that you wouldn’t believe me if I told you why I think it’s fun. I wouldn’t be able to
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