Daily Archives: February 9, 2012
Final Breast Cancer Screening/Education Tally
Posted on February 9, 2012 30 Comments
As you all remember, and in the wake of the Susan G. Komen thing, last week I and Subterranean Press pledged the income generated by one week of sales of my SubPress eBooks to support Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening and education efforts. I’m delighted to say that in the end we raised $5,200. (Well, […]
The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
Posted on February 9, 2012 24 Comments
A world in which 9/11 is 11/9 –– and that’s not to only reversal Matt Ruff brings to The Mirage, which features terrorist attacks and a struggle between the Arabic and Western worlds, i.e., the same recipe as events in our world, but with a few important changes. Ruff’s alternate history is getting noticed (“entertaining […]
Proof I Am a Complete Sadistic Bastard
Posted on February 9, 2012 33 Comments
There’s a writer named John Mierau who asked me to retweet his campaign to crowdsource a novel: I retweeted, he made his goal, and he ate a Bolivian Rainbow pepper while reading The Eye of Argon. If you want to go straight to the pepper eating, it starts at about 9:30. At about 10:24 he […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying