Jordan Lapp November 15th, 2007
EDIT: Looks like Mr. Knight has reposted the entry in the thread, and removed the text that I was complaining in this post. Kudos to him.
I recently ran across this thread at SFReader.com. In it, Edward Knight literarlly begs for speculative fiction readers to buy his new anthology Unparalleled Journeys II. By doing so, he had just guaranteed that I, [...]
Jordan Lapp June 6th, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to write by: “Just Because” by Jane’s Addiction
First novels advances are notoriously low these days, yet new authors still have dreams of being able to quit their day jobs. Story of six figure advances abound, but how much, really, are new authors making? Tobias Buckell has compiled a list of first novel advances [...]
Jordan Lapp June 4th, 2007
Music to write by: “Falling on” by Finger 11
Hey Guys,
I was talking to a few friends recently about the success of BoingBoing, the popular blog cum webzine run, in part, by noted Sci-Fi author Cory Doctorow. Doctorow is famous for writing weird novels and being the poster boy for the sci-fi writer in the internet [...]
Jordan Lapp May 30th, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to Write By: “Superman’s Dead” by Our Lady Peace.
Still in moving mode, so this will be another brief one.
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” has just won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. I talked about this novel in a previous post. Basically, I said the book was really good, but I objected to McCarthy [...]
Jordan Lapp May 23rd, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to write by: “Renegades of Funk“ by Rage Against the Machine
There has been a lot of buzz around the blogosphere recently about Copyright, so I thought I’d throw a few of my own ideas into the mix.
Cory Doctorow recently issued a call for writers to write a reply to SF novelist Mark Helprin’s [...]
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