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An amusing diversion for your end of the week. I present this article, which holds delicious recipes for 14 passive-aggressive appetizers to be served at your next dinner/cocktail party. Here’s a taste test of what’s in store: 1. Top thick slices of country bread with fresh goat cheese. Sprinkle with…

After a wonderful performance by a famous violinist, a member of the audience said to him, “I would give my life to play like that!” The violinist replied, “I did.” ——— I can’t get this little story out of my head today. I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader

Meant to take note of this yesterday. Tobias Buckell‘s third book in his Caribbean-spiced sci-fi series came out yesterday. My copy of Sly Mongoose is already in the mail and should hopefully arrive in a few days, so I’ll give a review of it when it has been thoroughly devoured.…

It seems that genres in the speculative fiction field are getting more specific by the year. Want a steampunk young adult vampire time travel romance? Why that’s in aisle 7. Want a cyberwarfare sleuth with a few elves and dragons tossed into the mix? We’ve got that too. Often, though,…

And if you’ve read Jade Tiger, by Jenn Reese, you’d realize how appropriate that saying is. I’ve had the opportunity to get my hands on a copy of Jade Tiger, a book that lies off-center of my usual genre choices, but which I am very happy to have had the…

Of course, out of all the bright and hot summer weekends the wife and I could choose to get out of town, we choose the grayest, wettest one to hit in months. Ah well. At least we’ll have hot chocolate up in the mountains. While I’m away for the weekend,…

Yet another in the series of, “I’m way beyond excited to see them make this into a movie, but they better not screw it up!” announcements. Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, the last (12th) book of which is being written by Brandon Sanderson, has been optioned by Universal Pictures.…

Just a brief note today to point you in the direction of this new sample chapter. If you aren’t already looking forward to the finale of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series, then hopefully the prologue and chapters he is making available should get you excited. http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/680/New-Herof-of-Ages-Sample-Chapter I see that smile.  Subscribe…

To promote one of his upcoming anthologies (Just After Sunset), Stephen King is producing a 25-episode graphic video web series called “N.” Each episode is a quick watch (usually around two minutes), the art is well done and creepy, as one might expect, and the story, while told from a…

To editors and agents, that is. http://varkat.livejournal.com/32011.htmlSome of the advice is rather obvious, such as “Write a fantastic novel.” But did you know that having a marketing platform will increase your chances appreciably, and that trying to get your personality across in meetings and query letters (we’re assuming a nice…