Tobias Buckell posted an interesting post on Twitter. The whole thread is great, and the take away is that many writers have kept their day job, while greatly contributing to literature. There is no shame in it. Watch this interview starting at about 3:00 minute mark. The popular culture conditions us that this is what
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Jeaniene Frost: Effie Needs a Home
BFF Jeaniene: Hey, can you use your powers for good and repost this? Me: Done. From Jeaniene’s website As many of you know, I have two dogs, Gypsy and Loki. Gypsy is 15 and a half, so not unexpectedly, her health has declined. The decline has been most significant this year, when she lost most
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Pathfinder’s Way by T.A. White
My head hurts because I stayed up way too late to read this book. The Trateri are about to learn a vital lesson of the Broken Lands. Deep in the remote expanse where anything can happen, it pays to be on a pathfinder’s good side. Nobody ventures beyond their village walls. Nobody sane that is.
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No More Authorlords
Dear Book Devouring Horde, The Authorlord thing started as a joke, and we were never 100% comfortable with the nickname. Several times people had a problem with it, because they thought it was required and we demanded to be called that. Every time this happens, we have to explain that no, this is a joke,
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Flame’s Daughter
This is a Chinese Fantasy/Martial Arts drama, available on viki. Romance, martial arts, magic, and happily ever after. Which doesn’t typically happen in Chinese historical or pseudo-historical drama because only Communist path can guarantee happy future. Verdict: Liked it a lot. It’s a nebulous historical time in China. The country is ruled by an Emperor
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Back in the Saddle
Bad things come in threes. Two of the three things are now rolling to conclusion: I’ve had my endoscopy and it went better than I expected, although we are still waiting on the biopsy results. Glad that’s over. And the infected eye of Charlie the French Bulldog has ruptured after 3 months of us treating
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Computer games?
So I tried to write a post about our lives and I deleted it because everything seems to be sucking right now. I’ve vented to Jeaniene Frost yesterday and told her that I haven’t written anything for a while, and she said, “I can’t imagine why. Your life is so zen, like a little green
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Kate and Curran Texts
One upon a time there was an Amazon reviewer whose name was Harriet Klausner. She was the #1 reviewer on Amazon and her reviews were at times very odd. Her review of MAGIC BLEEDS stated that Kate and Curran were on the outs, which meant that “there was absolutely no twittering.” Since Twitter and internet
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The Questing Beast
This was the first of our short stories that was accepted for publication. The publication was delayed, so MAGIC BITES actually came out before this was published, but still, this was the first time we didn’t get a rejection. In the green glow of Nemurian midnight, the food stain on the geosurvey graph blazed electric
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Sorry For the Duplicate Posts
We are trying to reorganize the free fiction section to keep everything together and easy to find. Because of this, there will be some posts with old fiction going up, such as Questing Beast, some POVs, etc. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please ignore us. 🙂 Here is a cute kitty as compensation.
Customer Service
Opening MS Word Office support window. Customer service rep: Hello, how may I help you? Me, very annoyed: Hello. MS Word refuses to recognize the custom installed font. CSR: Have you checked if the font is installed on the system? Me: Yes. Windows sees the font and renders it appropriately. MS Word sees the font,
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Migraines and Other Things
So Kid 1’s migraine is back. We are controlling it for now. We have a follow up on Monday and that’s when we will figure out a more long term solution. Right now mostly it’s severe nausea. She is taking medication for that too, and it’s keeping her from vomiting but she still feels nauseated,
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