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tor.com - 4/29/2009
“Where do you get your ideas?”
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( The death march is over: the manuscript will be in my editor’s inbox on Monday morning. So I’ve got time to blog again ... ) One of the questions that every SF author gets asked sooner or later is “where do you get your ideas?” For better or worse, I seem to get a double dose of it; ideas ...

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April 30, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Off to the Pulp Summer Slam so I need to make this quick (I only have 30 min. to write/research instead of the two-hour daily time sink). If I don't make it back alive, well, you'll know because of the lack of posts... ...

SF Tidbits for 4/30/09
SF Signal — ... Cool. Want some free books? SF author Andy Remic says: "Biohell for the Speccy is available this Friday 1st May from my website www.andyremic.com. It's a free download, and the first person to send me the solution and password gets a copy of my first five books, whilst the next three runners up get a copy of my latest novel Biohell, published by Solaris Books." Where Charlie Stross gets his ideas... J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son trilogy has ...

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