Archive for August, 2011
Writers and pellets
August 25th 2011 at 4:45 pm
A good friend asked me to write about my pigeons and pellets story I’ve been telling friends for the past year. It goes something like this… When I talk to writers I often reinforce the importance of milestones versus goals. Milestones are things you’d like to have happen to you. Selling a story. Selling a [...]
A somewhat writerly weekend
August 22nd 2011 at 10:31 am
Saturday I drove down to see Alan Gratz, who is down at the Thurber House in Columbus doing a residency. He’s a Columbus Crew fan, it turns out, and suggested we catch a match up between the Crew and the Philly Union, both of which are top ranked MLS teams right now. We got to [...]
Help fund a floating island made of plastic bottles?
August 17th 2011 at 8:22 pm
So far, the wildest Kickstarter project I’ve seen yet, to help this guy build a floating island using bottles.
eBook numbers from a new writer
August 17th 2011 at 1:07 pm
Ken McConnell posts figures about how much money he’s made selling eBooks directly. He’s writing SF, and as he notes: I’m a pretty good representative of the unknown, self-published SF genre author. If you’re in the same place, you’ll want to take a peek.
Your sense of wonder photo for the day
August 15th 2011 at 6:02 pm
Picture of a falling star, taken from the space station.
Today’s Hari Seldon?
August 15th 2011 at 3:48 pm
This dude’s like the Hari Seldon of today, using an excel spreadsheet and fucking game theory to predict how major political events are going to fall out. It’s crazy, check it:
Arctic drilling
August 10th 2011 at 3:27 pm
Large oil companies are gearing up plans for drilling in the Arctic North for the very near future, anticipating ice-free. My next novel cannot come out soon enough…
Space X is up to even more than suspected
August 9th 2011 at 12:07 pm
Over at NextBigFuture, this interesting snippet about SpaceX’s longer term plans with rockets, from a speech by Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to develop and operate “fully reusable, rapidly reusable space transport,” Musk stated. “It wouldn’t be a good car if you had to change the tires on it every time you drove it or could [...]
The world’s first peer-to-peer digital currency crashing
August 8th 2011 at 12:45 pm
Bitcoin is on its way down. And it’s wild to read headlines talking about p2p currency crashes. Cyberpunk future and all that…
Arctic Rising cover
August 5th 2011 at 12:41 pm
In follow up to yesterday’s post, I pinged about whether it was cool to post the final cover of Arctic Rising and everyone was all like ‘yeah, totally’ and so here you go: From the catalogue copy: Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic ice cap has [...]
