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Have you watched the 10th Anniversary Firefly Panel from ComicCon yet? If not, we’ll wait for you. That hour was well spent, yes? I watched it again while you were watching it. It was time well spent, I think. (Granted, I’m a hardcore Firefly fan.) There’s one scene in particular that struck me as amazing,…
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What makes Epic fantasy Epic fantasy and not just traditional, urban, or any other sub-genre is a well-worn conversation. One that I’m kind of bored with, actually. It’s been discussed enough that the informed have come to a general consensus (scope of setting/cast/stakes, etc), the uninformed bumble in that general direction, and the hair splitters…
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So I’ve got some pretty awesome opportunities going on right now, of which I will not speak lest I jinx them. I will say that it involves rewriting two different manuscripts, which may seem horrible to the uninitiated but is really flipping awesome. I’m in serious crunch time right now and will be for a…
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I tend to talk myself out of activities that don’t involve people I already know. It’s a failing of my upbringing. There’s a really cool organization around here called New Hampshire Sports and Social Club. I saw them out a few years ago during the “social” aspect and looked into it. Basically, you play a…
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Being a digital generation, it’s easy to get trapped in the notion that who people are online is who they are in real life. And not to say that they’re liars or phonies, but when we’re on Twitter or Blogger or Facebook, we only see a fraction of that person. I never “market” myself, meaning…
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I had a dream last night. I dream stories a lot, but I don’t always remember them as well as I do this one. It could make for an interesting story In my dream last night, my friends Kevin and Crystal were in a Greece-shaped theme park. It looked like an amusement park, but you…
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Sometimes it feels like I watch a lot of TV. I grew up watching a LOT of television. I was a living TV Guide. But I got tired of it and stopped watching for years. We don’t have cable in my house. We stream what we want to watch. Castle, Legend of Korra, Psych, White…
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I was reading the sample ebook of READY PLAYER ONE on my nook this morning, and I ran across a phrase you see pretty often. “You can’t take it with you.” A few weeks ago I was editing the crypt scene in PRINCE OF CATS. Traditional royal burial of millennia past where they were given…
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When I was in college, everyone I knew had seen Mallrats. If I said “fuckis,” I didn’t have to explain what that meant. Unfortunately, the fortune teller scene from Mallrats isn’t on YouTube so if you haven’t seen the movie, I can’t explain it to you. Lately, I’ve needed to improve my fuckis. I’m querying…