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So, you know how Captain America fights the evil organisation Hydra in order to save the world for the forces of freedom? Was someone in Random House trying to give us a subliminal warning about their new ebook-only imprint? http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/03/06/note-to-sff-writers-random-houses-hydra-imprint-has-appallingly-bad-contract-terms/ Obviously, I don’t have a problem with not getting an advance. I rather like knowing…

Argh!  Just die already, nobody cares!  (Well, I don’t, you emo megalomaniac traitor.  Push off, stop being such a whinger – it’s not as if you haven’t done this 10 times already without any of the drama.  Die horribly and come back as someone better.) Also, why couldn’t he be ginger for a change? Also,…

I’ve just seen last night’s Torchwood (ep4) on iPlayer.  My reaction: ‘ok, that’s it. Don’t care about how it ends. Not watching any more. So there!’ That is all, really. ….ok, so maybe I wouldn’t mind some gruesome angst filled revenge, but possibly not enough to bother watching it for. (There may be spoilers in…

I feel like a real author now 🙂  I was looking on Amazon for the cover of Ursula LeGuin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness” and thought I would just check how False Colors was doing.  Not so bad, thankfully.  However, I did find that since I looked at it last I’d received my first ever…

So, I’m 61K into “Under the Hill”, and I’m now completely sure that I have a Fantasy novel on my hands, not a romance.  This is all well and good, except that two of the characters (George and Chris) have backstory together – massive, massive backstory.  I find myself really wanting to write their massive…