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antickmusings.blogspot.com - 12/15/2008
Things Writers Believe
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It's Sunday again, and I'm in search of content, as usual. So here's some of my contributions to another rec.arts.sf.written thread that turned to publishing stuff, in August of 2008. Some of the things I said were: 1: Authors complaining that their books get "no marketing" Authors tend to ...

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tor.com - 12/22/2008
How to talk to writers
— tor.com — Writers are people, and they were people before they were writers. They change light bulbs and buy groceries just like everyone else. Really. Because they’re people, they vary. Some of them are jerks, but many of them are very interesting people to ... (more) How to talk to writers

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Things Writers Believe - SF Books
Planet-x.com.au — Things Writers Believe - It’s Sunday again, and I’m in search of content, as usual. Excerpt from: Things Writers Believe - SF Books

December 16, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Sick... again! I have another essay over at the Nebula Awards: Documenting Aswangs. It went up yesterday but my latest version wasn't used. Learn more about one of the Philippines's most iconic monsters. Here are the guidelines to the Devil's Food anthology. Andrew Wheeler on Things Writers Believe (But Aren't Necessarily True). Judith Berman on Adventure Fantasy in the Children’s Section. Check out Elizabeth Hand's serial Christmas novel Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol. (It's free after all.) ...

Links for 15th December 2008
Velcro City Tourist Board — ... sum sequential game designed by economist Martin Shubik to illustrate a paradox brought about by traditional rational choice theory in which players with perfect information in the game are compelled to make an ultimately irrational decision based completely on a sequence of rational choices made throughout the game." Tagged with: economics • psychology • theory • game-theory • auction • Things Writers Believe Andrew Wheeler lets the air out of some common balloons. Tagged ...

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