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Got started on the next Vlad novel.  I’m pretty sure this one will be Tiassa.  13 pages so far.

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Do you, friends, have a problem? Do you find yourself frittering away hours at a time putting useless words on a screen, or, heaven-forfend, a page, when you could be washing dishes or waxing cats? Do you find yourself thinking about writing when you are doing other things? Have you given up social engagements in [...]

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Many years ago at Fourth Street, a bunch of us sat around for too many hours and came up with the following theory: From the perspective of society, the function of art* and the function of science are identical; the difference is that the final product of science is a theory, the final product of [...]

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I happened to notice a comment in my LJ from some months ago pointing out that last September marked 25 years since the publication of Jhereg. 25 years. Weeee! Overall, the best summation of my career so far is something Jerry Garcia said in response to a question about the annoyances of his lifestyle. He [...]

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Man, I am so ready for the next season!  I was watching a rerun this afternoon, and there’s is this scene in the bullpen.   Wile Lau and Haf are bantering in the foreground, in the background Rhyes drops a folder in front of Brady, and Brady looks at the folder, looks at Rhyes, then just [...]

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(reposted from personal journal by request) When working on a big project and trying to come up with cool ways to draw people into your created world, it’s sometimes hard to guess which line to straddle in how much and how fast you disperse your information. You want to make sure any early adopter fans [...]

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The murder mystery I wrote with my poker teacher Don Hill is being serialized on an online poker magazine called Blind Straddle.  The sample can be found here. It’s a subscription site: you have to pay a fee to get access to the story.  I think it’s like $15.00 a year or so.   They have [...]

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I received my contributor’s copy of this year’s Triangulation anthology in the mail the other day. (Triangulation: Taking Flight) It is very exciting to see my story (“The Reap Assessors”) in it! It’s my second short story sale but due to how these things work out, it’s actually the first story to see print. Don’t [...]

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We’re looking for some bands to help us engage in some viral marketing .  Are you in a band?  Do you have a friend who is in one?  Post a link to your music here, or else send it to Kit at dreamcafe dot com, and we’ll give it a listen.  Ideally this should involve [...]

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I really like to plow straight through the first draft, however often the plot suddenly turns on itself and surprises me, figuring to fix it in the rewrite.  Sometimes, however, there are just too many unexpected changes, and I have to stop and get things in line before I got on. Iorich just did that, [...]

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