...what rainy days do to me

I am sick and tired of people who think spec fic in Singapore is a no-go!

here.

Quote:
"We thought what a great space to give the feeling of curiosity, intrigue, apprehension," explained Kevin Carrigan, Calvin Klein, Inc's global creative director.

Please stop with the 'white-man/woman-in-exotic-countries' trope. Please stop with the patronizing and condescension. Please stop making documentaries with the (white, male) gaze.

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People have been debating about the new race classifications. I am not sure about the others, but the essay made me... uncomfortable. "Rescuing" is too patronizing.

Scalzi makes a comment.

Oh waitaminute, so what you are saying, Mr Scalzi, is that people living in Ohio are missing out on big writing breaks?

ahem

How about people living in South-east Asia? There are many writers living in - say - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. And they are hardly in the epicenter of Writing ( Read more... )

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Oh sure, focus too much on thin=beauty, on waif-thin models drifting down catwalks and on the glut of slimming ads so prevalent in Singaporean advertising... and you get this result.

Shame on you, fashion and beauty industries. People don't even love their bodies anymore.

Authors who complain about Lulu's actions are deemed as "bellyaching". Christ. I don't think the people who called their fellow self-publishers "belly-achers" understand law at all. Note: Lulu is essentially a competitive place and all self-publishers compete for business. So, gloves are off, darlings ( Read more... )

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I don't know what's scarier: the authors who actually like the scheme and will happily go along with it or the degree of nonchalance with which the Lulu staff is treating the whole matter.

and more hereAnd they have taken the "Lulu Press" down, apparently, from Amazon. (Nope, I checked. Still there, apparently. But I expect there will be a ( Read more... )

Apparently, Lulu.com has opened up a third-party store at Amazon's marketplace: here. Many independent publishers on Lulu.com (including me) have received an email stating that our books have been selected to be placed on Amazon's marketplace with a 30% increase in price. So, the title Wolf's Voice is now apparently $19 something - expensive. I ( Read more... )