Daily Archives: December 18, 2012
Athena, 12/18/12
Posted on December 18, 2012 36 Comments
Before any of you say it: Yes, looking more like her mother every day.
The Results of My Fundraising Bribery Initiative + A Challenge to Jim C. Hines
Posted on December 18, 2012 74 Comments
As you may remember, Jim C. Hines challenged me to a pose-off last week as part of his fundraiser for the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation, wherein he and I both modeled a pose of a female character on a fantasy book cover. Having both made the pose, we then invited folks to vote on who did the […]
The Whatever Geographic Default Entry
Posted on December 18, 2012 64 Comments
This is one of those “post now for later reference” posts. Folks, I live in the United States and the bulk of my personal, political and economic life, including book sales, is tied into it. Also, while I am happy to see that almost 30% of my traffic to Whatever comes from other countries, over […]
“Rip-Off!” Audio Anthology Now Available; Also: Hey! A Contest!
Posted on December 18, 2012 12 Comments
I told you about Rip-Off! a couple of weeks ago: It’s an audio anthology in which science fiction and fantasy writers take he first line of a classic of literature and then go off on a tangent with it, creating all new stories from that snippet of source material. Aside from me, authors in the […]
Old Man’s War eBook $2.99 Today Only
Posted on December 18, 2012 32 Comments
The SEO-like headline says it all! My first published novel — which was sold to Tor ten years ago this month, more on that on the actual day — is available for just under three bucks. If for some unfathomable reason you as a reader of this blog have not read it, now’s your chance […]
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