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*Cough!* Welcome to a new year all. Hope your resolutions have been thoroughly pondered, noted down, charted on spreadsheets, printed out, and promptly burned. Helps skip a few steps, no? Anyways, we now have a shiny, sparkling 2010 handed to us–ready to be battered into submission. You’d think the people…

In this edition of “Where do writers get their ideas?”, through this article, we learn that a crematorium over in the UK is looking into “technology to reclaim some of the energy lost in the cremation process.” To quote: “Although the technology is still in its proving stages, the crematorium…

To lighten up the day, here is a recently posted CGI video created over the course of 8 years by Chris Jones. Chris did everything with this video, including the animation, music, and writing the storyline. It’s a good bit of spooky fun. Enjoy.  Subscribe in a reader

Jenny Rappaport, a highly esteemed and popular literary agent and author of the Lit Soup blog, sent out a notice today that her agency, The Rappaport Agency, will be closing down permanently at the end of this year. Here is the official announcement: It is with a great deal of…

My brain is pretty burnt out this week from dealing with all sorts of house-buying issues as we stumble and fumble our way towards closing–which seems likely to be pushed back a week or two…again. Yeah, trying to buy our first house. Everyone who uses the term “roller-coaster” to describe…

Look to the news, folks. The scary and strange happens around us all the time. This week, it’s the story of Rom Houben, who, after a car crash, was thought to be in a coma that lasted for 23 years. However, after a recent brain scan, it was revealed that…

There’s a new online service being marketed to writers and literary agents. Hosted by WeBook, AgentInbox is “a service that connects publication-ready authors with reputable, vetted literary agents.”   How does it work? For now, you go in, create a profile, and then decide what manuscript you want to submit.…

I recently heard from the editors over at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. They’ve picked up my short story, Odd Jobs, which I’ve been shopping around for a bit over a year. Really glad this one found a home and can’t wait to see it come out. It should…

Ok. So we’ve seen theories about the Hadron supercollider being sabotaged from the future. Now, for the next installment of “Where do writers get their ideas?” let me point you to this company, which has supposedly created a mind-to-computer interface for computer games. Here’s Emotiv’s spiel about their new product:…

The first thousand words of a new story have been set down. Planning on this one being a bit over 100k, so there’s a bit to go yet. Who knows if this initial scene will even make the cut? But after a couple weeks of brainstorming and worldbuilding, it’s a…