I share many of my own characteristics with my characters – if they have my paranoia or my faith it gives me a sort of trap door into their minds through which I can get in there and rummage around to see what else there is. I may have mentioned before that the particular aspect…
So uncomfortable in fact that one of their chapters have banned authors of same-sex romances from entering their books into competition altogether. This kind of discrimination makes me uncomfortable too. I’m sure you’ve heard of this already, but if you haven’t, check out Heidi Cullinan’s post about it: http://heidicullinan.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/rwa-shouldnt-be-in-the-business-of-discrimination/#comment-9126 And in keeping with my apparent…
I know I shouldn’t, because nothing ever goes away on the internet, and it’s up to us to be professional all the time, blah blah blah. But for crying out loud, [certain authors on Facebook], cut down on the rabid promotion, already! I am not, here, talking about any of my colleagues and friends who…
This story has a remarkable story of disasters, obstacles overcome and dogged persistence all of its own. It’s possible that some of you may remember the first time I announced the sale of what was then a long short story called 90% Proof to Freya’s Bower. I can’t now remember how many years ago that…
Now here’s a petition that really should help: Thank you for calling on the European Parliament to save the Internet. Now please help amplify the impact of this campaign. The more of us join, the more powerful it becomes! Send the email below to friends and family, and post this link on your Facebook wall….
OK, so this was not what I intended to blog about this morning, but this was just more important: We defeated SOPA and PIPA, but the battle is not over yet. You have another head on this hydra to slay, and it’s getting frightfully little attention. Feel free to repost this anywhere you like. ACTA…
Seriously, this fight against piracy is a lot worse than the piracy itself. I used MegaUpload a lot in order to send perfectly legal high resolution book cover art which I made with legally bought stock photos over to publishers so they could put them on their books. The high resolution files were simply too…
Copied wholesale from Erastes I think if you are going to do one political act today, then do this one rather than the other. (from thimble_kiss If you are a transgender person in Sweden and want to legally change your gender, the government forces you to undergo surgery that will render you permanently infertile and…
Whoops! I had a bit of time this morning, so I thought I’d organise my ebook reader. One slip of the keyboard later and all my m/m books are gone. I thought I had them all backed up on my computer hard-drive, but now I go to look, I find I don’t. No doubt some…
I’m not a political blogger, and politics in the USA often feel like something going on on the backside of the moon to me, with everyone speaking in acronyms and referring to things I’ve never heard of, and assuming things I would never in a million years assume (because things are different over here.) So…
