2008

The greening time

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Did you know that the low hanging, large, reddish moon that would be called a Harvest Moon in late September/Early October is called a Strawberry Moon when it happens near […]

Two wondrous things

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First, there is water on Mars. (Link to Wired article with nice image showing ice chunks subliming.) Second, the Smithsonian now has their photograph collection up on Flickr Commons, with […]

Amphibian. Allegory.

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My friend and one-time critique partner, R. Scott Shanks, Jr., has been having some frustrations getting his website up and running, so he decided to post to his blog, instead. […]

Sticky pixels and electronic cork

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I’ve been experimenting with doing more thorough pre-planning/outlining/storyboarding.  I’ve always written a pretty thorough synopsis and had a clear idea of the overall story, but there came a point in […]

Perspective

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That’s us out there.     The Earth and the moon, as seen from Mars. Image acquired on 10/03/2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.    

Paronomasia

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King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates, the most valuable diamond […]

They're singing my song

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I have a couple of Google Alerts set up to let me know when references to my books appear on-line. So far, most of the references to Immortal Warrior I […]

On love and latex

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On one of the reader-oriented email lists I’m on, the group moderator (who is brilliant at starting up good discussions) recently asked what everyone thought about condoms in romance novels. […]

Cover Mania

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Is something in the air?  Discussions of romance book covers are suddenly all over the web. First I popped into DearAuthor and found Cover Identification, Susan Holloway Scott’s well-illustrated overview […]