blogs.amctv.com - 2/28/2009
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I've been thinking a lot about the growing process lately, as we're getting ready for my fifteen-year old nephew to come visit. The task of finding things that will be fun for him to do in New York is an interesting one, because it requires me to actively remember what it was like to be a ...
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... nonsense surround the Kindle 2's ability to convert text to speech (which Amazon has even more recently crippled) , Wil Wheaton goes head-to-head with Text-to-speech Conversion.
Jennifer Pelland talks about Writing Ugly: "...to any writers out there who are afraid to write the ugly truths that keep popping into their heads, I say hang onto that fear, because fear is where truth lies..."
At SciFi Scanner, Mary Robinette Kowal writes For Teens in Fantasy, It's Not Easy Being Big.
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Et in arcaedia, ego. —
... joined by Leah Bobet and Holly Black for the new episodes. * Amanda Downum also shows off the cover art for her debut novel, The Drowning City (The Necromancer Chronicles). (And Kameron Hurley calls it wicked cool.) * Alison Kent is over at Genreality talking about critique groups. A good critique partner will do more than tell us our manuscript is pretty; s/he will realize what’s missing and point it out. * Mary Robinette's latest column at AMC is about teens in fantasy films. * Donna Ball (with her brand new ...
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