Reposting this from Ursula Le Guin's web site at  http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-OpenLetter.html (for which she gave permission to copy at will, as noted at the bottom):

I'd like to correct some misapprehensions about Cory Doctorow's unauthorized posting of my short comic piece "On Serious Literature" on his boingboing.net site.
I originally ( Read more... )

Following up on a campaign pledge, everyone's invited over to the new SFWA Skunk Works -- sff.sfwa.skunkworks on sff.net.

What is, you may ask, the SFWA Skunk Works?  Per the newsgroup charter--

Welcome to the Skunk Works. This is a business and solutions
        oriented atmosphere for SFWA writers to come. Here we'll be
        talking about ( Read more... )

Noticed elsewhere: a write-up of the IPST Day that includes some follow-up commentary from authors and Hendrix.

Either leave a comment on this post, or on yesterday's post about IPST Day.

So far as I can tell, people love this holiday, and I'd hate for the SFWA LJ to get swamped with individual posts.

Share, Technopeasants, share!

P.S. to the folks who already created new posts. Leave 'em up, or delete 'em, or repeat the info on this post or the other. It's all

To celebrate Pixel-stained Technopeasant Wretch Day, here's some of my published fiction. Well, okay: here's all of my published fiction. Comments and criticism appreciated.

Snapshots

&

Gravity.

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day should properly be celebrated by posting, linking, reading, listening to music composed by the performers, not to mention looking at art. Get to it. "They're dancing on the screens, I've got to warn ya..."

Today is the UN's World Book and Copyright Day. Thanks to maryrobinette for pointing this out. In light of that fact, I deleted the original "Authors' Rights Day" from the subject and substituted the UN's version ( Read more... )

An International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant LJ community has begun at
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