It’s Memorial Day here in the US, a time to honor those that have served in uniform. We have parades. We grill. We post on Facebook that we honor their memory. What I’m finding, however, is that people don’t know how to properly refer to America’s armed forces. I see a lot of “in memory…
So after an incredibly verbose fall, the last couple months have been virtually silent in comparison. As I’ve mentioned before, I work in publishing. My managers finally acknowledged they weren’t giving me enough work so I’m moving to a list1 that is changing its business strategy. Thus lots of meetings, lots of new work, and…
So the whole Amazon pedophile thing has stirred up an argument I absolutely hate. It begins when someone says “You have a right…” and trails off into some moronic thing you don’t actually have a right to. So for all you American readers/writers (as a number of modernized countries don’t offer a right to free…
Conservative blowhard commentators often accuse this or that media of being liberal (depending on which media they want to accuse at that particular moment). While I feel the following is true about any medium, I am speaking today about print publishing so will keep this opinion only there. I don’t think publishing is liberal. I…
I changed my twitter profile recently from “I write.” to “I write in the morning. I make ebooks all day. I write in the evening. I do other stuff.” There was some confusion to this statement. It was presumed that I self-publish in ebook format, and that is not the case. I work for a…