Monthly Archives: June 2009

The Last Great American Small Town: Fillmore, CA

Posted on June 30, 2009 by

I’m anything but a Fillmore expert, so forgive me if I get some details wrong.  Ever since I was teaching in Moorpark and hiking around the Sespe, I had an interest in a small town in eastern Ventura county called Fillmore. … Continue reading →


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Me, My Horse, and I

Posted on June 29, 2009 by

So, your protagonist has insisted loudly and at length that she is by damn going to be a horse girl, and your novel or story persistently sets itself among the horse tribes. You’ve researched the basics of behavior, biology, and management. You have a local barn you can visit to get the dirt-under-the-fingernails effect, and a beta reader who can catch whatever slippage still gets through. You’re good, right?

Not necessarily. There’s a further element to all this: the interface between human and horse. Continue reading →


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Enemies & Allies: A Very Short Review

Posted on June 29, 2009 by

For a change this is a novel, not a comic book.  However it is a novel about Batman meeting Superman.  This is a popular subject, handled many many times in the various Superman and Batman titles — the most dynamic … Continue reading →


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Ich Bin Eine Content Provider

Posted on June 28, 2009 by

Artists (writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, graffitists, indie film makers, etc.) are no longer artists. They are now content providers. Gone are the days when these tortured souls brooded in their lonely garrets contemplating suicide. Nowadays artists are all connected and … Continue reading →


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Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy #2: It’s Almost Writing, or, Half-Baked Weasels

Posted on June 28, 2009 by

Read This First! McIntyre’s First Law: Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you could be wrong. Pitfall #2: It’s Almost Writing, or, Half Baked Weasels Almost and half (half-smile, &c.) are weasel words that allow you to evade the … Continue reading →


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Relationship Advice for the Nerdy

Posted on June 27, 2009 by

I was intending this weeks blog to be more about the process of writing FOOL’S WAR (<Shameless plug on> available now for online reading and download on the main Book View Cafe site.  <Shameless plug off> ), but I got … Continue reading →


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Fake Poop and Other Cat Deceptions

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

So here I am, late again. I plead Way Too Much to do this week. But I digress: I am a cat person. I don’t have a dog because I work, and a dog needs a ton of attention. But … Continue reading →


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review: AN OFF YEAR, by Claire Zulkey

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

Just got Claire Zulkey’s first novel, AN OFF YEAR, a young-adult story from Dutton.  Really sweet story about a kid who chickens out on her freshman year of college at the dorm room door.  She just turns around and makes her … Continue reading →


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The WisCon Chronicles – WisCon 33

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

Every year Aqueduct Press produces a volume covering the WisCon for the previous year. Timmi Duchamp has asked me to edit the 4th WisCon Chronicles, covering WisCon 33. It’s an honour, if also a very large responsibility! I will be blogging … Continue reading →


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xkcd: Another Great Way to Waste Time on the Web

Posted on June 25, 2009 by

I am a huge Joss Whedon fan. I stumbled onto Buffy a couple of years into the series, and got completely hooked, to the point where several friends and I would go online immediately after every episode and do detailed … Continue reading →


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