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This is why John Scalzi pretty much owns the Internet. Some months ago, Scalzi said that if his Twitter followers could raise $500 for Clarion within the next half hour, he’d have someone take a...
View ArticleBut What About Readers and Reviewers?
There’s a discussion over at Jessewave’s that evolved into a thread with wider interest to fiction writers in general, so I brought one of my comments (and a bit of what I responded to) back here. Rick...
View ArticleQuoting Now Equals Libel?
So apparently linking to an article where someone is quoted — with links to the original sources — as saying something that makes him look like a sexist asshat is now libel. That sounds like fun, so I...
View ArticleFollow-Up on the Libel of Quoting
I’m ridiculously busy right now so this is going to be short, but Mr. Sean Fodera, referenced in my previous post, has hired a lawyer to tell him that linking to an article that quotes him saying...
View ArticleBecause Telling Teenagers “No” Always Works
The principal of Booker T Washington High has stepped in to cancel one of their school’s summer reading programs rather than let the students read Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, which is all about...
View ArticleHomophobia Taken to Ridiculous Extremes
So Tim Torkildson was hired to do social media for the Nomen Global Language Center, a school that serves primarily people learning English as a foreign language. Part of his job was writing the...
View ArticlePutting Ferguson Into Perspective
Yes, what’s going on in Ferguson is awful, and is causing hardship for a lot of people, most of them black. Yes, it would be better for everyone if they’d go home and get on with their lives, as...
View ArticleWhat Are We Paying For Again…?
From ABC News: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to...
View ArticleMarriage Equality, Finally
The Supreme Court finally grants marriage equality. Try as they might, people opposed to marriage equality haven’t been able to come up with any rational reasons for their stand. “Because our god...
View ArticleWriting Characters Who Aren’t Like You
Someone on a mailing list posted this link (thanks Lyn!) and I had to pass it on. Daniel Jose Older, an SFF writer and editor, wrote an article called 12 Fundamentals of Writing “The Other” (And The...
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