…about me continuing to put up my old Analog short fiction? Frankly, it’s a pain in the ass. Either I pay somebody a lot of money per page (by my standards) to scan and copyedit the stories, or I dictate them via Dragon Naturally Speaking and then copyedit the transcriptions myself. Still, I’d sorta like [...]
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“Bank Robbery” Is Now Up At Amazon As A .99 Cent E-Book – Epub Also Available
The title pretty much says it all, but here are the links. Amazon: Epub Format for Sony Reader, iBooks, and Nook: Click here to download Bank Robbery. As always, these editions are DRM-free.
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This drew a great deal of discussion over at Daily Pundit, but I thought it would work well here, too. Daily Pundit » Just As The Map Is Not the Territory, The Book Is Not the Story Boston Review — Richard Nash and Matt Runkle: Revaluing the Book Why do we think that a person [...]
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Amazon.com: Fantasy & Science Fiction, Free Exclusive Digest: Kindle Store: Spilogale Inc. Fantasy & Science Fiction, Free Exclusive Digest [Kindle Edition] by Spilogale Inc. I’m not entirely clear on what the caveat “Digest” actually entails, but I’m going to sign up for this deal anyway. F&SF published the first story of mine to see print [...]
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That’s Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I used to live right up Russian Hill from there, and did a lot of shopping for fresh produce, and Chinese barbecue – pork, chicken, and duck – down on that street. I think that pic captures a lot of what I like about San Francisco, as well [...]
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I ran across an interesting story about how, as their brains age, people tend to lose the ability to “keep things in mind.” Drug Could Make Aging Brains More Youthful? As the brain gets older, the prefrontal cortex begins to decline quickly. This part of the brain is responsible for many high-order functions, including maintaining [...]
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If you had any problems with your downloads at all, please let me know and I’ll send you new files via return email immediately. Thanks, and apologies if it happened to you.
Read the rest of this entry »Writing is Hard
Oh, yes it is. One year I wrote eleven novels, all of them already under contract to large NYC publishing houses before I even wrote them. People told me, “Wow. It must be nice, just lazing around doing some writing, and getting buckets of money for it. What an easy life!” More accurately, somebody once [...]
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