It's true what they say about Kickstarters being crazymaking. I am vacillating between:


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Apologies for the long blog absence without warning! I was off on a family vacation that involved not one but two family weddings in beautiful Michigan. We had a lovely time, and when I returned home I jumped right into finishing up the last round of autobiographical essays, which included an original piece by Tananarive Due. Due and her husband, ( Read more... )

I just discovered today, via Rose Fox at Genreville, that Anne McCaffrey died on August 21st. Locus has a short memorium available online, and will be running a full obituary in print in January ( Read more... )

Monica Valentinelli, a fellow contributor to Flames Rising, posted a contest on her blog asking people to post about their passions, and I immediately thought of the first time I'd really tried to pin mine down. When I attended the Denver Publishing Institute back in 2000, jeff_duntemann was one of our guest faculty members. He talked about a number of issues in ( Read more... )