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okay whatever, gonna start crossposting ( Read more... )

Been doing a lot of thinking and writing about games lately, in part because of GamerGate (fucking ugh) but also in part because I just seem to be in that mode. Like, to the point where I wish I had approached grad school with this as a more explicit focus (would've made sense, my first and to date only peer-reviewed academic publication was in ( Read more... )

This month. This fucking month ( Read more... )

My sister - who has ulcerative colitis - has written a guest post for my authoblog about her experiences, how fortunate she is, and how much she still needs the Affordable Care Act. It's fantastic. Read it.

As much as I need the ACA, there are countless other people who need it far more desperately. In truth, they need something much more ( Read more... )

So from right now until October 13th I'm giving away a free copy of Crowflight right the hell over here. Just give me contact info goodness via the form and I'll draw a winner at random.

Another couple of links of stuff I've written recently:

- My take on the revelations concerning @Horse_ebooks.
Look, man, I dunno. I don’t know what’s going to ( Read more... )

Apparently I can only do bulletpoint lists anymore.

• A month in the new place and I absolutely love it except that our fucking AC keeps breaking. Two times in one month, and when the tech finally came out yesterday I swear to God, he made it worse. We had to turn it off and open all the windows. It's warm in here now but it would be anyway and at ( Read more... )

A couple blog things that I did.

• A thing happened in the gay romance community, namely the head of one of the biggest review blogs saying - apparently not for anything like the first time - that she has just HAD it with vaginas jumping out at her in her gay romance, and it's "disrespectful" of authors to write about anything but cisgendered guys ( Read more... )

For those who might be wondering why I'm so fixated on drones as a topic of fiction and non-fiction writing these days, I offer an explanation on my authoblog, as well as a little bit about what's going on in my Clarkesworld story:

When I write about drones, I’m not writing about the MQ-1 Predator or the RQ-4 Global Hawk or the Wasp III. I’m ( Read more... )

For those who care about such things, my essay on SimCity and always-on DRM is available to read at The New Inquiry.

I swear I didn't know the whole Xbox thing was going down when I originally wrote this piece, but the timing has been fantastic. For the last few weeks I've pretty much become a game blogger. I wrote two other pieces, one on the ( Read more... )