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I saw somewhere on the web that May is short story month.  So I thought, oh that would be a good opportunity to share some stuff.  And then I wandered into the bibliography section of this site and discovered a wilderness of horrors.  It’s like the garden in that creepy house ( Read more... )

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The other day I said something in passing, which I intended mostly as just a rhetorical turn of phrase, but which I have been thinking about more and more.  Specifically, I said that money makes the world go round, but love makes people go round.  It turns out that’s a (slightly ( Read more... )

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I just wrapped up watching Dazed and Confused, and it’s 1 am, and I’m a little dazed and confused feeling, but I thought I’d try and get some thoughts down before I pass out for the night.

Whenever I watch a film I enjoy, my first instinct is to check its wikipedia article. ( Read more... )

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I’ve never been good at synopsizing stories.  When asked to describe No Hero, I have invariably described it as “a story about explosions.”  When people who can navigate the myriad labyrinth of subgenres ask, I may throw in that its an urban fantasy.  Which sets up a slight ( Read more... )

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I wasn’t very successful with girls as a teenager…  Sorry, what I meant to say was that I played roleplaying games a lot as a teenager.

I obviously dabbled a little bit with AD&D, because you sort of have to.  It is the nerd’s gateway drug.  But my real poison of choice was ( Read more... )

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I recently installed some web stat tracking stuff on this site - because I’ve had it for about 3 years, and it felt like time I should get round to it.  But I noticed that about once a day I get a hit for “tentacle fiction.”  So I checked that out, and apparently this site gives ( Read more... )

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Something I see a lot on the interwebs, is people talking about word count.  They’re either going to achieve a certain wordcount, or want to achieve it, or have achieved it, or are going to beat someone around the head and neck with it.  Well, I am here to overthrow the tyranny ( Read more... )

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As a side note, I am posting this from a free wireless connection on AmTrak, which in many ways is kind of miraculous, and not the sort of thing one should complain about. So if at some point this thing breaks down into me just frothing at the mouth about shitty connectivity, I ( Read more... )

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Being a nerd, Wednesday is a pretty important day for me.  Because it’s new comic book day.  Recently I’ve been largely staying away from the Big 2, especially Marvel, who I’ve found relatively disatisfying.  I think there’s 2 titles from DC I’m still grabbing each month. WhatI’ ( Read more... )

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Two things.

One: Yesterday’s Hero has a preliminary cover with the title and my name and cool stuff like that on it.  Check it:


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