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(not)Friday Linkdump
Because if I sit on any of this much longer these things are going to hatch. And then the dogs will bark and chase them around and eat them and then where will we be? I ask you. Also, I am on holiday and am therefore having really terrible trouble remembering what day it is [...]
Friday link round-up
I recently updated Firefox. As a habitual tab hoarder, I’m not sure I love the way this new version seems to try and group new tabs when they open. I don’t quite understand the crazy moon logic. What was so bad about just chucking it to the end over there on the right? ~ * [...]
Night of the (still not gay) Living Dead part III
I want to talk a little bit about the whole zombie antho thing again. Probably for the last time unless something else comes up. Before I do, though, I want to make it very clear that I don’t bear Doc, or any of the folk over at the Library of the Living Dead forums any [...]
Sick day = blogging day + soup.
Jim C. Hines has signal-boosted the Library of the Living Dead queer zombie antho thing. Like him, I’ve been looking for more info (or even acknowledgment) from Library of the Living Dead about the whole thing. More news as I stumble across it, I suppose. ~*~ Researchers are studying the origins of certain well-known fairy [...]
Macmillian, a follow-up, and every tab must go
So this weekend’s publishing industry fracas seems to have resolved itself, at least for now. Macmillan, which is enormous and has imprints for everything from textbooks to science fiction, threw down with Amazon over ebook pricing. Macmillian wanted variable pricing at $14.99 or less, while Amazon dug in its heels and demanded a $9.99 cap. [...]
Bloomsbury: Just Add Whitewash
So apparently Bloomsbury didn’t get the hint last time about how hiding PoC protagonists between white covers is offensive. Witness Jaclyn Dolamore’s debut novel, Magic Under Glass, which has a very pale figure on the cover indeed. I’m thinking I’ll be making like Ellen Datlow sometime this week and dropping them a complaint. If you [...]
Filling the well and hot man-on-man action
So this was definitely not the weekend I’d planned. One empty house and three days with lots on my plate should have been obscenely productive in the finished writing column. I should have an essay and five or six flash pieces finished. I could even be plotting out something I want to write in February. [...]
Tab Round-up
The dayjob ramped up in intensity this week, which has been rough on my writing life. I’m a couple of days behind on prompts, but I’ve got a three day weekend and enough time and quiet that I’m pretty sure I’ll not only catch up but hopefully finish some work that’s been gathering dust in [...]
I Didn’t Start The War on Science Fiction
Some weeks it seems like I can’t walk across my own living room without tripping over some new moment of !fail in the genre. This weeks glittering gem: “The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky.” Now, before I go on, it bears pointing out that the blogger — who believes “technology is the key [...]
The new Lambda Literary Foundation Policy Guidelines and you.
I’m a little later to the party on this than I’d like, but as an out queer writer who reads queer stories when and where he can find them, I’ve got a vested interest in this whole thing. The short version is that the Lambda Literary Foundation (or LLF) recently updated its nomination guidelines for [...]