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1. Voting is now open for the Urban Goblin Cover Contest. If you don’t have an LJ account, please leave your vote in the comments.
2. I was asked to post my thoughts on the Harlequin vanity publishing flap, but I could never do as thorough a job as author Jackie Kessler has done. ...
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It's time to choose a winner. Please vote for your favorite title suggestions below. Winner gets an autographed copy of The Mermaid’s Madness [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] . View Poll: Vote for your favorites Voting ends, oh, let's say at the end of the week. Have fun, and thanks to ...
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• Interested in a custom-painted mini of Jig the goblin? Garden Ninja has offered one for bidding here to benefit Tu Publishing , a publisher focusing on multicultural SF and fantasy for children and young adults.
• Mel Grant’s cover sketch for Red Hood’s Revenge showed up in ...
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jimhines.livejournal.com - 3 days ago
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From time to time, you come across authors
talking about how their books are their babies. I’ve...
been thinking about the release of The Mermaid’s Madness [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] , and decided to see how well the analogy holds up. Part 1: ...
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Why My Books are Not My Babies
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jimhines.livejournal.com - 4 days ago
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• Thank you to everyone who’s offered new
and autographed books for the DV Book Drive ....
I’ll be continuing to collect books through about mid-December, at which point they will be delivered to the shelter. • I’m still taking ...
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Blurb Ethics
jimhines.livejournal.com - 7 days ago
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For several years now, I’ve run a book
drive around the holidays to collect books for a...
local domestic violence shelter. On Tuesday, I wrote briefly about the value of books and stories as an escape, however temporary. Going to a domestic ...
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DV Book Drive
• Still taking title suggestions for the mock urban fantasy cover contest. And for anyone who missed it, that entry inspired Paul Abbamondi to do his own urban fantasy mock-up with Jig in a traditional cover pose. Click to view the awesomeness .
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So Nebula recommendations are now open for ...
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Windycon was a great deal of fun, as always. Got to meet some new folks and catch up with friends … I didn’t have much programming, so in a lot of ways this one turned into a social con for me. Many hugs, lots of hanging out chatting in the lobby and elsewhere. Met some new fans, ...
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• Looking at my schedule for this weekend more closely, I’m doing the writing workshop at the same time as the DAW vs. Baen panel, so unless we have last-minute dropouts from the workshop, it looks like I’ll be missing that panel. I’m sad about this, because it had the ...
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• First off, a quote from author C. C. Finlay : “The third law of writing: For every fiction there is an equal and opposite re-fiction. For example, if there is The Hobbit , eventually someone will inevitably write Goblin Quest .” I am much amused.
• The SF/F Humor Roundup is up ...
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Last night I spent two hours at karate. (Got my promotion form for 3rd brown belt — woo hoo!) It was a good workout, but the class only meets once a week, so I’ve started trying to ride the exercise bike a few times a week too.
There are a few reasons for this. My day job is ...
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jimhines.livejournal.com - 17 days ago
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By now, I imagine many of you have
seen Publishers Weekly’s roundup of the ten very best...
books of 2009 , a list which just happens to only include male authors. Sure, the girls made it into some of the secondary lists, but the ten best? All ...
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Top 10 Books of 2009 (Girls Need Not Apply)
Here we go! This is the link for the 2009 roundup of humorous science fiction and fantasy. Let this be the first step toward a new age, an age in which humorous books can walk proudly beside their literary brothers and sisters, an age in which puns and nose-picking jokes shall be treated with ...
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• As insane as this week has been at work, it’s been a very good writing week. I just found out that my German publisher is picking up both Mermaid’s Madness and Red Hood’s Revenge . Excellent!
• Also exciting, Red Hood’s Revenge is up for pre-order on Amazon ! ...
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Happy news!!! The Mermaid’s Madness [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] was the #1 paperback bestseller at both Mysterious Galaxy and Uncle Hugo’s –two wonderful and well-known SF/F bookstores–for the month of October!
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I just finished reading The Enchantment Emporium [ ...
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October kicked my ass, but man, what a ride. The Mermaid’s Madness [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] came out at the start of the month. I did my first-ever guest of honor stint at Icon . There were signings and readings. I also did a final revision on Red Hood’s Revenge , which I ...
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Red Hood’s Revenge is not done yet. Red Hood’s Revenge needs to be done. Ergo, I will be unplugging (mostly) until this sucker is turned in. I probably should have done this a few days ago, but ah well.
Have a great Halloween, all. In the spirit of the holiday, have a haunted ...
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Apparently it's time to clarify the moderation policy here. Some of the things I post about can be touchy, whether it's sexual assault or copyright debates. I don't expect everyone to agree with me or with each other. I do expect that sometimes people will get angry, and ...
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I’ve been reading various discussions about the gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl in California and the aftermath. One constant, as with almost every such conversation, has been the mindset when it comes to rapists and abusers.
There’s a strong sense of us vs. them. How could they ...
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I picked up a copy of Kelly McCullough ’s Cybermancy [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] , in the dealer’s room this weekend and read it on the plane ride home. I reviewed WebMage [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] , earlier this year, and Cybermancy was even better (which is how it ...
