Loren Eaton, at I Saw Lightning Fall, likes Andrew Klavan’s Damnation Street, and considers it a satisfying finale to the Weiss/Bishop detective trilogy.
I am pleased. Well done.
Category Archives: Blogs, Socials
Figment Invites Teens to Write More
Figment.com is a new site for teenagers who want to find new writing and write it themselves. The NY Times has a write-up on it. Want to write some great work for the cellular age? This may be your starting point. Just don’t get cocky.
Scary Ghost Stories and Tales of the Glories of Christmases Long Time Ago
Loren has announced his 2010 Advent Ghost Story Flash Fiction Rally. I’m already polishing something, and I think I’d like to work on another one.
The State of the Blogosphere
Who is blogging, how often, and what relationship do they have with traditional media?
Theft as Research: Magazine Steals Recipes from Various Sites
Ed Champion reports on the flagrant theft of copyrighted writing by a cooking magazine named Cooks Source. First, the food historian behind this 16th century apple pie article noticed that her article was printed without permission in the magazine. She asked about it and was asked if she didn’t want it published, since it was already online. Once Champion learned about it, he looked for other copy-n-pasted articles in the magazine and found at least five definite instances and several possible ones.
Lar's West Oversea Tour in October
The tour is over, but it’s still relevant. Browse the interviews and guests posts through this link or in our October 2010 archives.
Don't Ask, Sweetheart
Lars’ next tour stop will be on The Hot Author Report today. Stop laughing. That’s not what they meant.
And on Monday, he’s has an interview on Examiner: Virginia Beach. Here’s another post from that blog on what not to ask an author at a book signing. I think there could be more to it than this. I mean if someone asked me where I got my ideas, I’d say the morgue. I steal them from dead people. Now, that was a painless answer, wasn’t it?
Rest day on tour
In case you were wondering, there is no Virtual Book Tour stop today.
Waving as I sweep past
I gave a lecture tonight, and came home late. But I have a couple links.
Hal Colebatch, author of the Man-Kzin Wars books I’ve reviewed here and here, has an article on religion (or the lack of it) in Science Fiction over at The American Spectator.
And today’s virtual book tour stop is at Lori’s Reading Corner.
Linkage
If there must be evil in the world, let there at least be more stories like this. All hail to Victor Perez for taking action to save a child. He should get a medal, and probably will.
As did Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller today, though sadly posthumously. The story from Threedonia blog is here.
On a far more trivial note, here’s the history of that traditional nuisance, the chain letter. Tip: Mirabilis. I note that, while a Methodist missionary school provides “one of the earliest known” instances, they apparently didn’t actually invent it.
Lastly, today’s Virtual Book Tour stop is Pump Up Your Book.
And with that, I leave you.