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What is this nuance thing, what good is it, and do I even want some?
That’s an excellent question, and I’m here to tell you that the answer is “It depends.” Nuance is not exactly on-trend currently. Social media and the…
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I've been thinking a lot about caracaras.
Caracaras, if you don’t know, are a subfamily of Falconidae (Here’s a Wikipedia link) that fills an ecological niche much more like corvids than like…
Apr 18
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March 2024
Fallow time can bite my shiny metal @$$
I have an entire novella in my head, just ready to be written, but every time I sit down to write it a get a few paragraphs and it peters out because…
Mar 29
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Where I'll be and what I'll be doing! (MidSouthCon Edition!)
Hey, folks! This is just to let you know that I will be appearing as one of the Guests of Honor at MidSouthCon just outside of Memphis TN this coming…
Mar 18
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Where I'll be and what I'll be doing! (MidSouthCon Edition!)
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More Cheap Books! (Machine for $1.99 in North America.)
The second book in the White Space series, Machine, is now $1.99 in ebook the US and Canada (and if I am checking correctly, £3.99 in the UK). So if you…
Mar 12
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More Cheap Books! (Machine for $1.99 in North America.)
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Author points: what are they, how do they work, and how can I get some?
Hello, all! Author points is a term I coined decades ago to describe the goodwill a reader has toward a writer’s work if they are already invested in…
Mar 7
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February 2024
Chronic pain and other delights. Also, Ancestral Night is still on sale.
First things first! Ancestral Night is still on sale for $1.99 in North America! Get it while the getting is good! In unrelated news, I’ve been trying a…
Feb 27
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Chronic pain and other delights. Also, Ancestral Night is still on sale.
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The tiny personal hell of author's notes, cheap ebooks, and but also, a FOLDED SKY publication date!
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Feb 24
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January 2024
The Bite Sized Chunk
How do you deal with a project that’s just enormously, overwhelmingly big? You just do the next thing, is all. This applies whether the overwhelmingly…
Jan 29
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The Bite Sized Chunk
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A happy ending depends on where you stop telling the story.
Sometimes I think that fiction is soothing because it posits there are solutions in this world, rather than just practices. You can do a thing and get…
Jan 21
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A happy ending depends on where you stop telling the story.
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They tell you to be here now but they don't unpack what that means, now do they?
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They tell you to be here now but they don't unpack what that means, now do they?
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Social media does have its uses.
In my last email, I was talking about how social media and the unblinking Sauron-eye of the Internet can make creating good art very hard, because that…
Jan 8
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