Daily Archives: February 3, 2010
Why In Fact Publishing Will Not Go Away Anytime Soon: A Deeply Slanted Play in Three Acts
Posted on February 3, 2010 340 Comments
CHARACTERS: ELTON P. STRAÜMANN, a modern-thinking man with exciting ideas JOHN SCALZI, a humble writer KRISTINE SCALZI, the wife of a humble writer ACT I SCENE OPENS ON STRAÜMANN and SCALZI, standing. STRAÜMANN: The publishing world is changing! In the future, authors will no longer need those fat cat middle men known as “publishers” to […]
SFWA Has a Point to Make
Posted on February 3, 2010 85 Comments
And makes it quite nicely here. And in case you’re wondering, no, I didn’t have a thing to do with it.
Back Naps For Hep Cats
Posted on February 3, 2010 41 Comments
Get hip to the scene, daddy-o: napping on your tum-tums is strictly Squaresville. All the cool cats know back naps are the cat’s meow, you dig? Crazy.
The Big Idea: Katharine Beutner
Posted on February 3, 2010 25 Comments
People in myths live forever — or do they? For every Apollo or Persephone, there are the women and men whose lives these famous deities intersect in the telling of the tale — but who otherwise fall from the page, and from thought. Can they be resurrected? Katharine Beutner thinks it’s possible, and sets to […]
A Note Re: Amazon Links in Big Idea Pieces
Posted on February 3, 2010 29 Comments
Some of you may note that despite my being annoyed with Amazon in the last week, Amazon links have not been pulled from previous Big Idea pieces, and I added an Amazon link to the latest Big Idea piece as well. The reasoning here is simple: Unlike some large online retailers I could name, I […]
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