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Free! 26 Jul 2012 | 06:28 am
It’s about the half-way point on my second TimeSplash giveaway under the Kindle Select scheme and the result seems to be about the same as last time – thousands and thousands of books snatched up, mos...
An Ontological Breakthrough 21 Jul 2012 | 03:40 pm
I can’t help it, I agonise over the meanings of things. I’m a discriminator; a differentiator. I like to categorise. Take “science fiction” (oh stop groaning, you went to the trouble of clicking the...
Christmas in July – Have a Good One 17 Jul 2012 | 11:32 am
And, to help you make the most of your turkey and mince pies, why not curl up with a good book? Deck the Halls, “a merry measure of cross-genre short fiction subverting traditional notions of the ho...
IN SITU Hits the Shelves 10 Jul 2012 | 02:39 pm
I have a story in an anthology called In Situ and it’s going to be published tomorrow (12 noon New York time on 10th July – which is 2 am Brisbane time on 11th July) so stand by your Amazon “buy” butt...
Review: Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds 13 Jun 2012 | 05:46 am
( This review first appeared in The New York Journal of Books. ) In a future not so far away, the Mechanism keeps the peace, augmented reality is commonplace across the solar system, and people are ...
A Few Quick Reads (One for Free!) 5 Jun 2012 | 03:18 pm
I’ve had a few short works appearing in anthologies and mags lately and I thought you might be interested if I did a quick summary – especially since one is free and they’re all easily accessible. T...
A Worldbuilding Codex for Writers and Creatives 31 May 2012 | 11:31 am
Worldbuilding is one of the essential skills of a science fiction or fantasy writer. I’d go so far as to say it separates the greats in these genres from the mediocre. It is also the arena in which th...
Why is Science Fiction Dying? 19 May 2012 | 10:32 am
Ah, the good old days. Science fiction appears to have two big problems in the marketplace. One is that fantasy is outselling it by about 3:1. The other is that at least half (possibly more, dependi...
The Earth Ship Available on Kindle 17 May 2012 | 12:58 pm
Marketing Maestro, Joe Konrath, says you should not only sell collections of your short stories on Kindle, but also sell each of the stories in the collection as a separate item. So I thought I’d have...
Autumn Leaves 12 May 2012 | 08:25 pm
These could be our last days. We could meet our end tomorrow With the dull incomprehension Of hooked fish, Pieces of Kentucky Fired Chicken In our open mouths. Then the wide, straight roads Tha...
