Nothing to See, Move Along

I got nothing. Well, that’s not exactly true. I’ve got (hold on, lemme check) 60 drafts I could finish, but right now, none of them seem worth wrapping my arms around the cat (the real laptop) so I can work on them for more than 15 minutes. Anyway, I have been thinking I want to […]

On-line fiction

Readercon has been over for a couple days, and I’m just starting to recover. One panel that got me stirred up was “The Aesthetics of Online Magazines,” which left me feeling very depressed about the future of the web as a means of delivering fiction as text.

The 150 Page Rule

Somehow we get it into our head that if we pick up a book to read for pleasure, we have a moral obligation to finish it. That’s ridiculous. For starters, if a published book doesn’t grab you on the first page, don’t take it home. If that seems too draconian, you can also invoke the […]