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There's a new vignette challenge over at Sarah Hoyt's blog. My effort is from one or another of my steampunk 'verses, as a young woman on the farm sees a passing airship and thinks of travel beyond the lands she knows.

marycatelli has a new vignette challenge on her Dreamwidth blog. It turned out to be a twofer: the first is steampunk, perhaps from the same ( Read more... )

Way back during the Great Amazon Glitch of 2021, when books were vanishing at random from Amazon's search functions and could only be discovered by direct links, I included my short story Grandmaster's Gambit in a promotional blog post by an indie writer with a big following.

Shortly afterward, I wrote a blog post in which I described the world in ( Read more... )

Sarah Hoyt's running late this week, being on the road again.

However, marycatelli has a new vignette challenge on her Dreamwidth blog. My effort is from my Gilded Age steampunk 'verse, as a young woman determinedly pursues her dream.

There's also a new writing challenge over at the Victory Girls blog. My effort is from the Chongu 'verse, where the varying ( Read more... )

There's a new vignette challenge over at Sarah Hoyt's blog. My effort comes from my Gilded Age steampunk 'verse, as Nick Yates contemplates how his invention is being received

marycatelli also has a new vignette challenge at her Dreamwidth blog. My effort is also from that 'verse, but dealing with a railroad trip gone awry.

There's also a writing challenge ( Read more... )

The author of The Intel Trinity makes an excellent argument that Moore's Law is not just descriptive, but also predictive: try to get ahead of that curve and build a "super-chip," and you're going to get burned, bad. As evidence he offers the sad example of Gene Amdahl's Trilogy Systems, which had as its flagship product a super-chip so powerful it ( Read more... )

Like many authors, both traditional and indie, I had e-bbooks caught in the Great Amazon Glitch, in which they suddenly disappeared from Author Central and from Amazon's search system, although they could still be reached and purchased if one had a direct link (for instance, from an author or fan website ( Read more... )