By about 5000 words so far, but another 1000 to 2000 words and Prophets will be done. I was going to try and wrap it up tonight, but ended up dealing with insurance people (will people stop it with the Read more…
Steve Jobs, for the following quote RE the Amazon kindle: (via Gallycat) The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore. Yeah. The internet would really take off if people get over this whole reading thing. Read more…
You may have noticed, even before the whole Cassie Edwards flap, that I follow the blog, Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books. It is, as advertised, smart, bitchy, and chock full of the kind of humor I tend to appreciate. Read more…
Over at the SF Signal blog they have a cool feature called “Mind Meld” where they ask a bunch different SF-type people a question and post the answer. This week’s post is the second half of a two-parter on the Read more…
I thought I had posted all I was going to on this. But, then, my wife was waiting at Walgreens to get a prescription filled and was walking past the book isle, and came across this. I draw your attention Read more…
Cassie Edwards’ plagiarism that is? Well I tried an experiment. I decided to spend part of my evening hunting down some CE sample text, look through it, and see if I can Google a lifted passage. I decided this at Read more…
What follows may be as close to a complete statement from Cassie Edwards as we’ve had since the whole plagiarism issue raised its ugly head. It is allegedly an e-mail response to a fan expressing support, and is documentary evidence Read more…
It’s a new year and I’ve revised my project counters. I have ditched the counter for The Unicorns of Hunting Valley because it seems very unlikely I’ll be able to justify getting back to it any time in the near Read more…
In a manifestation of what I noted in an earlier post; that if your romantic paranormal fantasy is filed on the romance shelf you get a hunk on the cover, on the fantasy shelf you get a babe on the Read more…
Well, Cassie Edwards’ research methodology has caused quite an internet dust-up. Inevitable, I guess, when a set of controversial bloggers uncover this kind of skeleton in the literary closet of a popular NY-Times bestselling author. What I find interesting is Read more…