August 2012

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Does our entertainment culture value sampled products over original works? Is this creative sloth, or a calculated shot at maximizing profit via audience familiarity with tried-and-true stories? When done by professional writers via publisher license, the trend gives us dozens of ‘Star Wars’ novels, John Scalzi’s affectionate and awesome H. Beam Piper reboot FUZZY NATION,…

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My signed and countersigned contract for MORO’S SHIELD arrived yesterday from Loose Id. Somehow, having a contract for the sequel makes MORO’S PRICE more real. The story I started writing on 03-05-2011 as a fun experiment is now a job, no less enjoyable but infinitely more terrifying. I have the dreaded Second Novel Syndrome to…

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I’m a fantasy writer just now wandering into the world of erotic romance. I’ve been reading fantasy since the early 1970s. Hence, my high tolerance for vast paragraphs of worldbuilding, complicated plots and sub-plots, and tiny nuggets of foreshadowing scattered like diamonds on a path. Sex in older fantasy and science fiction novels often faded…

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I’m a writer and artist living in the American Southwest. I’m lucky enough to work in creative industries as diverse as commercial analog and digital art, art instruction, bookbinding, jewelry-making, and film cell retouching for a major theme park company. My artwork is collected by numerous private clients and university special collections, and has been…

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