SFWA Response to Hydra Letter
SFWA Response to Hydra Letter: Thank you for your letter regarding Random House and Hydra, and your interest in speaking with us. Unfortunately, there is very little to discuss. SFWA has determined to...
View ArticleAbout (not) talking tech
The Angry Drunk: My stance on this hasn’t changed. As far as I’m concerned, the tech blogosphere has collapsed into a largely worthless echo-chamber filled with idiotic babble about Apple’s share price...
View ArticleThe Nebula Awards…
Frank Catalano went to the Nebula Awards in Seattle, and talks about some of the things that happened. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about decisions past, present and future recently. A couple of...
View ArticleWill the Kindle succeed?
Backup Brain: Dori says that she thinks the Amazon Kindle is a bomb, and she thinks that it will flop. Her argument is based mainly on its DRM. I think that it will succeed, become a big business...
View ArticleFree Fiction: ‘Til Death Do Us Part
I’ve uploaded another of my stories from back when I was writing fiction. This is my first sale and first published piece, Death Do Us Part from Alternate Kennedys, Tor, July 1992. Mike Resnick was the...
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Thoughts on “The Write Agenda” and “Writer Beware”
I got an unexpected and unsolicited tweet from the folks at The Write Agenda tonight: I wrote back pointing out that they are spouting absolute bullshit, but the more I thought about it, the more I...
View ArticleTea Time
Tea Time: Over the past five years, every writer I know has been told by their agent to ‘monetise the activity around their writing’. Give talks. Go to conventions. Judge prizes. Write reviews. Write...
View ArticleNo, Actually, Let’s Keep the Fan Categories at the Hugos | Whatever
(if you aren’t interested in science fiction fandom, or worse, science fiction fandom politics and SMOFFing and all of that crap, avert your eyes and go read something else. you’ll thank me…) No,...
View ArticleA small christmas gift for you: Downtime
Back when I was writing fiction, I started writing a series of stories about an IT consultant, the typical middle-aged middle-class guy who’s always trying to stay one step ahead of the bills, who...
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