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ebook fever!
I just subscribed to Asimov's as an ebook from fictionwise. See, I love Asimov's, but I hate the way all those little digest-sized books start to cover every available surface of my home. This is much better, because they just go onto my PDA and are there for me any...
Man assaults woman. She gets in trouble.
A man sits next to a woman on a plane. He spreads his legs, pressing them up against her. She complains. He tells her, "You're a big girl." She says, "Don't fucking talk to me like that." He grabs her arm and threatens, "I'm going to slap you in your mouth." Whom do...
Hmmm, that’s interesting.
Apparently, my comment sp@mmers are offering me links to pictures of garden implements. One even offered garden implements with cats. Intoxicated cats. How can I ever resist? *deletes*
I can has outline?
One NaNoWriMo novel, one incomplete screenplay, and a novel-in-progress with outlines and I suddenly no longer want to work without them. I suppose this is a good thing, since writing without is sometimes a big timesink, but I still feel like an outline junkie. I've...
Want to be part of an experiment?
Question: Do free ebooks help or hurt paper book sales? Tor is offering free ebooks if you sign up with their newsletter here. They offer a different one each week--this week is Scalzi's Old Man's War. (If you want it and missed it, ask a friend--the email says "tell...
I’ve been quiet…
I've been writing a lot. Well. Last weekend I was sick. Let us not speak of it. My action chapter is still kicking my butt, because, well, it's action. It'll be okay, and the next chapter should have fun stuff in it. Well, there was something fun tonight--I wrote a...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.