Long-time SF fans are familiar with Sturgeon's law: "Ninety percent of science fiction is crud. But then, 90% of anything is crud." (Variations are many and ... well, varied.) You can argue over the numbers, but it boils down to this: in any endeavor, a minority of people will do it well ( Read more... )

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I mentioned in my last post that Harlequin, with its vanity press offer, is now essentially telling aspiring authors, "You can't sit at the cool kids' table with the authors who get paid by us for writing, but we will let you sit at the card table out in the hall, and you can eat rubber chicken if you pick up the check. Oh, and you'll have to do ( Read more... )

So ... for those who haven't heard, Harlequin recently decided that it would start a vanity press, whereby aspiring authors would pay them somewhere between $600 and $1600 to print their books, but wouldn't get any kind of marketing support from Harlequin, not even having some variant of the Harlequin logo appearing on the book ( Read more... )

I got e-mail from a criminal justice student who wanted to thank me for my cyberstalking article. Damn, but that thing gets around. I suspect it's horribly out of date when it comes to specifics these days (heck, I wrote it in 2000), but the general principles still hold up pretty well, I suppose.

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... and then I discovered that a FoodVu blog post I'd written about cocktails is now #1 on their popular posts list. Mind you, it seems to have attracted spambots, so I don't know how proud of it I can actually be, but ... eh. I think that one they paid for on time, so ... yay ( Read more... )

Tired. I'd like to do a real post about how things are going, other than knitting projects, but the truth is I'm mostly just feeling mellow and tired right now, not much for introspection. Or at least not the kind of introspection where I write about it where other people can see it ( Read more... )

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