Audible.com has two more of my books up: Rocket Science & Death of a Starship

Rowling and "Galbraith": an authorial analysis - This is pretty interesting stuff around language geekery and automated textual analysis.

Your Favorite Movies Laid Out as Vintage Treasure Maps - This is weird and cool. (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)

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Yesterday on Facebook, a conservative friend said, I suspect part of the issue is that most writers and artists of the last 150 years working in the fantastic field have been (more or less) refugees from religion, of one sort or another. To them, a more perfect (or at least more fun) world is a world where god and church... are just not present. ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to Green - Interesting review. They started out very suspicious of the book, and wound up liking it a lot.

A reader reacts to Death of a Starship - They liked it.

Hotel Replaces Bible with Fifty Shades of Grey - (Via ( Read more... )

A day or two ago, I asked the question on this blog, "Do we need Sauron and Voldemort"? By which I meant, do we as writers need strong antagonists to make a story compelling?

Obviously, that's a storytelling modality that works very well. One can hardly argue with the commercial success of either Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. Either of those ( Read more... )

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Per my recent call for questions, here's another reader interview with me. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

djelibeybi_meg: During all your cancer treatment, how did you manage to continue to motivate yourself to write and to keep up your regular blogs? If there were days when you didn't manage it, what impact did this have upon you?

jaylake: The fiction ( Read more... )

Don't forget the METAtropolis contests - Today is the last day to enter.

A reader reacts to METAtropolis

Another Locus review of Is Anybody Out There? - In which my story "Permanent Fatal Errors" appears.

Bryan Thomas Schmidt reviews my novel Death of a Starship

How do they get to be that way? - Roger Ebert on racism. I grew up in Africa and ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to Death of a Starship - Mixed, largely positive and thoughtful review, some plot spoilers.

Writers Reminisce about Dungeons and Dragons - Including yours truly.

Roger Ebert's Last Words, con't. - Another wonderful piece from Roger Ebert. (Who is not, as he said, at the moment dying.)

20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had to ( Read more... )