I first became aware of the "Requires Hate" blogger when people would link to her vitriolic reviews of certain books. Many of these reviews were lauded by people who felt that "Requires Hate" was speaking up for minorities who have been silenced for far too long ( Read more... )

I'm going to do the meme going around because playing story games is fun.

If you feel like playing . . .

Tell me about a story I haven’t written, and I’ll give you one sentence from that story.

If you had a patron, or wealth, would you write?

This comes off a discussion I had some time back. The answers were more varied than I expected. Orthogonal to this was the discussion of being driven versus being talented--that though some of us are driven, we haven't the talent to match.

Due to events, my reading has gotten behind, but the nice thing about books is that they are not fish, they do not spoil if you have to leave them for another day, and that day stretches out for a week or month ( Read more... )

Worldcon is coming up, and a lot of new writers, or writers who've been around a while and who've found times bumpy due to the economy, are going to be anxious about using this opportunity because received wisdom says that cons are for:

making deals

meeting editors and agents

and most of all

selling your work.

Steve Miller passed along this ( Read more... )

Via burger_eater, writers need to be like rock stars.

I nearly fell off my chair laughing. (Warning, if you are offended by the usual suspects among four letter words, don't click.)

A month ago, when I was at Fourth Street, I posted a bit about writers and a list of things not to do. Harry Connolly said he was going to come back with his own list.

As promised, he answered here. I don't know that I agree with them all (processes are sure different) but most of them? Oh yeah.

First, if you have eight minutes, do watch this vid via lnhammer-a few seconds of daily life all around Japan. I hope, I hope that more of these will appear--imagine getting to spend eight minutes in Estonia, Finland, Antarctica, the Andes, Siberia, Belize . . . the list goes on ( Read more... )

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Half a year ago I read a novel in draft by Steven Harper Piziks. I had so much fun reading that book I kept having to remind myself I was being a beta reader, and go back and write down reaction notes. I was delighted (but not surprised) to discover that it was one of the first books to be sold to the new Carina Press. Now it's an ebookSteven, ( Read more... )