OK, here’s the deal.

I read quite a bit, as does my wife. As does my daughter. (Yeah, the one from FOGcon). As will my other daughter in a few more years. We’ve settled on Kindle ereaders for the moment, but that could change in the future.…

I’m reading a charming, well-loved 1965 Book Club edition of Dune from the local library. We take Space Opera for granted today, but observe how it needed to be described back then. Inside flap copy, after some standard stuff about Duke Leto and the great rival house of Harkonnen: (italics are from original source are shown in bold here)

A page of medieval history?

I’m delighted to announce: my story Ritchie Boss: Private Investigator Manager took first place in the Singular Source contest and will be published as the final chapter in the book Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse due out later in 2012.…

This is a FAQ I’ll be pointing people at in the future, and updating as needed.

EPUB is the name of a format for electronic books and other publications. It works pretty well, it has small file sizes, it’s compatible with business models that both require or don’t require DRM, and it’s actively maintained and improved by an international forum of publishers.…

Here’s a recent trend I can get behind: shared worldbuilding. Mur deserves credit as one of the pioneers here, with the rollout of Playing For Keeps and all the Stories of the Third Wave. Another that caught my eye was the Mongoliad, a serial novel by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and others, with lots of fan participation including artwork and stories (and nitpicking).…

1. Writer writes story.
2. Writer submits story to market.

1. Market requires submissions in Standard Manuscript Format.
2. Market requires submissions as DOC or RTF.