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Thanks to GFTW reader Mieneke I now know that Grasping for the Wind’s review of Heroes Adrift
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I have no idea how this happened, but this little old site hit the tenth position in Technorati’s List of Book Blogs!

Thanks to everyone who has linked here to give us the ranking, for all your readers, and for the excellent contributors.

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I’ve added a few new blogs to the review blog list:

Wag the Fox
Edi’s Book Lighthouse
Sniffly Kitty’s Mostly Books
Darkeva’s Dark Delights
Bibliobabes
LEC Book Reviews

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The Strange Horizons (an online ‘zine of fiction, essays, and reviews) reader’s poll is now open. My interview with Jonathan Maberry is one of the potential nominees for favorite articles. All nominations must be in by 23.59 GMT on 6th March 2011 [Email address required ( Read more... )

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Over the past few days, a link to the blog Big Hollywood has been being tossed around by various people I follow on Twitter, generally with some fire in their 140-character bellies. Always curious about the state of the fantasy genre, I followed the link and read “The ( Read more... )

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The world wants to know - should I podcast?

Okay, maybe not the world - but enough of you have been asking me questions about podcasting that it felt pretty natural to write about it here on Grasping for the Wind.

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I’m spending a little time today over at The Skiffy and Fanty Show talking about my favorite convention experience. I chose to talk about the time Patrick Rothfuss and two fans (I was one!) became an idyll of calm in the chaos that is Dragon*Con.

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Last Week: Podcasting 101 - Part 1

So. Podcasting. It’s the new thing. Everyone seems to want to get in on it too. Heck, I’ve started three now. First was the solo podcast - All Things From My Brain, then the wildly more successful Functional Nerds podcast with ( Read more... )