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Read Kameron Hurley's essay "Branded: The Good. The Bad. The Ugly." Choice Quote: "I think that as much as we like to pretend that what gets us ahead is our originality and creativity, writers – whether consciously or not – end up either being branded or branding themselves over the course of ...
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Tearing your hair out at rejection slips that make little or no sense? Save your hair! Instead, play... BOOK REJECTION BINGO!! Game board created by the eminent Kameron Hurley (whose short story "The Women of Our Occupation" you must read.) Kameron noted, on her blog : "It was terribly fun ...
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My official website has been updated with: - A new, rather long chapter of the novel DARC AGES (originally serialized around the year 2000). - The beginning of the serialized novel THE ARGUS PROJECT (originally serialized in 2001). So, are these books "any good"? I'm mostly critical ...
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In this week's website update: - DARC AGES, chapter 6 - BLOOD & SWINE: A COMEDY OF TERROR, sample chapter 3 - "SNIPER, VIPER..." The first of the PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE stori es
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Gee, I didn't know that Stephen King's breakthrough novel was rejected 30 times. Surely it must be part of a massive conspiracy to make big publishing houses seem like a bunch of clowns...? (The same conspiracy that made so many unsuspecting big publishers make the apparently conscious ...
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Check out my official website for new sample chapters of the novels BLOOD & SWINE and THE TIME IDIOT , plus a new chapter of the web serial DARC AGES . Choice quote: --------------- "Hey!" Prescott called out to the other cell. "Wake up! I've gotta ask you something!" The other ...
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The other day, my wife made a keen observation: "You seem to be writing a movie script every time you write a book." She put the finger on a big problem with me and just about everyone who writes fiction today: We think about the chance, however remote, of somebody someday making a motion ...
