Godwin’s Law

March 31st 2005 at 9:26 am

Beatrice.com links to a bit of an online spat between a reviewer and a small press publisher.

Here’s the rundown: online reviewer reviews book by small Christian press (after saying that they review small press books very critically). Very honest response follows. Publisher gets pissed. Demands the reviewer ‘act professionally’ by taking down critical review. Reviewer […]

Karl Schroeder’s The Engine of Recall

March 30th 2005 at 4:04 pm

Karl Schroeder has a short story collection coming out called ‘The Engine of Recall.’ Karl’s novels are incredible, and I’m looking forward to picking up the stories.

What Book Turned You Into an SF Fan

March 30th 2005 at 11:14 am

SF Signal asks what book turned you into an SF Fan, with reference to Bob Wallace’s enjoying the swords and blasters stylings of Burroughs.

I had never seen anything like it. The cover had two huge moons floating in the night sky above a city of spires and towers. There were what appeared to be three […]

Organization Software

March 30th 2005 at 9:55 am

MyLife is a piece of software for Windows that looks like it could easily be adapted to or already uses the principles of Getting Things Done and is similar (if not better) to Life Balance (which works on Palm/Win/Mac).
Life Balance is okay, the closest easiest use software for me to use on my planning and […]

Flesh-Kincaid

March 29th 2005 at 4:49 pm

Michael A. Burstein has an interesting LJ post about using the Flesch-Kincaid grammar statistics scores that MS Word will calculate for you on fiction:

One of the many books on writing I own is FICTION WRITER’S BRAINSTORMER by James V. Smith, Jr. Smith has a chapter called “A Brainstormer’s Guide to Revision and Editing” in which […]

Jennifer Blogger

March 29th 2005 at 4:41 pm

Max Barry, author of Jennifer Government, talks about why he blogs and how it’s helped raise his profile a bit:

I was very proud of my site, because in 1999 not everyone had one. It often received as many as 8 visitors a day, spiraling up to a heady 13 visits per day in July when […]

More iTunes Songs For Newsletter Signup

March 28th 2005 at 4:59 pm

To the next -2- people who sign up for the newsletter today, 3 itunes songs via email (just got a few more today from people who don’t use iTunes)…
ATTN: Thank you, this particular promotion is over :NTTA

More Grado Praise

March 28th 2005 at 1:28 pm

Jon Strahan writes about rediscovering his Grado SR-80s and how great they are.
My Grado SR-125s have developed a slight defect in the left ear so I’m going to pack them up tonight and send them back to Grado Labs for repairs.
Man I’m going to miss those headphones for the next couple weeks. Being huddled away […]

Dave Jumps The Shark

March 28th 2005 at 10:45 am

Over at Tangent Online SF fan/critic Dave Truesdale jumps the shark as he decrys the evil Liberal conspiracy to force short fiction magazine editors to buy metrosexualized short stories and so forth and so on. Nick Mamatas has his usually sharp retorts on his livejournal.

Anyway, Dave wonders

if SF is going soft these days. One doesn’t […]

Heh

March 28th 2005 at 9:36 am

Pretty soon it might be legal for my employers (a christian private university) to fire me, no questions asked, for my beliefs thanks to federal law…