Daily Archives: March 20, 2014
Athena, 3/20/14
Posted on March 20, 2014 55 Comments
Dressed for her sports award ceremony this evening (she was in power lifting). And looking pretty stylish, if I do say so myself.
Reader Request Week 2014 #8: What Writing Lurks In the Shadows?
Posted on March 20, 2014 22 Comments
Katy asks: Is there anything you’ve written that is sitting in a drawer/file cabinet that will never see the light of day? Not really, no. The very first novel I wrote was Agent to the Stars, which I sold shortly after Old Man’s War (the second novel I wrote) was published. All the other novels […]
To Note The Passing of Fred Phelps
Posted on March 20, 2014
I have donated $100 to The Trevor Project. And that’s all I’m going to say here about the passing of Fred Phelps.
Twenty Years Online
Posted on March 20, 2014 41 Comments
Above, you see the very first verifiable evidence of me being on the Internet: A USENET post, on the sci.astro newsgroup, dated March 20, 1994 — twenty years ago today. For trivia fans, it was posted from my apartment in Fresno, where I was working at the local newspaper as their film critic, and if […]
Reader Request Week 2014 #7: Editorial Independence
Posted on March 20, 2014 68 Comments
Dpmaine asks: How do you intend to maintain editorial independence given that you are now working with one of the largest international media conglomerates, headed by a notorious right-winger billionaire? Context: My book Redshirts is in development as a limited TV series at FX, a cable station owned by 21st Century Fox, owned by Rupert […]
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