Daily Archives: December 1, 2015
STAR WARS EPISODE 3.14159: THE AWKWARD HOLIDAY GET-TOGETHER
Posted on December 1, 2015 31 Comments
In which two science fiction authors turn the greatest science fictional saga of all time into… another dysfunctional holiday family dinner. (Because it’s long, and there are other things I am promoting today, I’m putting it on the other side of a cut. If you’re coming through from the front page of Whatever, click through, […]
The Big Idea: Molly Crabapple
Posted on December 1, 2015 7 Comments
I’ve been an admirer of the art of Molly Crabapple from the moment I saw it — enough so that I commissioned a portrait of my daughter from her, and was honored to have her do a cover for one of my books. But there’s more to Molly Crabapple than her immense talent with pen […]
Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
Posted on December 1, 2015 239 Comments
Today is Day Two of the Whatever Shopping Guide 2015, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses, books released outside the usual environs of the publishing world, and so on. Hey, I put my first novel up on this very Web site years ago and told people to send […]
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