Science fiction and space exploration!

I heart NASA, and NASA hearts me back. I just watched Obama’s speech livestreaming from whitehouse.gov, on the new plan for NASA. He talked about how space travel and exploration as an ambition is an essential part of the American character. I remember as a kid always wanting to go see a launch live. I…

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DGC: Money for Nothing

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles. In the morning I woke up to find him asleep in the other bed in his room. I guess I’d conked out in the wet spot. The connecting doors were still open and I wandered back into my room to get my toothbrush and such from…

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Red Silk Editions almost here!

Woo! You can now pre-order printed copies of my paranormal romances, MIND GAMES, and the first two books of the Magic U series, THE SIREN AND THE SWORD and THE TOWER AND THE TEARS. Red Wheel has the books up in their online catalog right now: https://redwheelweiser.com/category.php?id=124. MIND GAMES will be shipped August 1, 2010…

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Discoverability, Still A Book's Biggest Problem

I gave a talk as part of a panel in the Bookbuilders of Boston/Emerson College “Gutenberg to Google” series of presentations on the ebook r/evolution. I promised I’d put it online later for those who missed it, and here it is — my take on “discoverability” and how this key principle is behind three of…

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The Prince's Boy: 37

(Continuing the weekly serial by Cecilia Tan! Need to start at the beginning? Click here.) 37: Kenet The next morning the general met with a bevy of his top commanders. I was bade to wait in the field marshal’s tent with two other pages while they conferred. The pages served the two most important battalion…

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Crowdfunding Update

Wow. So earlier today I posted at Daron’s Guitar Chronicles and in my blogs that if folks were interested in seeing the “blow by blow” action on the sex scene that recently appeared in summary form, well, I would write the scene and only send the “bonus track” to those who donate in the tip…

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Donate now, receive a special scene…!

Okay, an enthusiastic reader convinced me to try this. In the scene just past in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles (“Madness: One Step Beyond”) our narrator has non-anonymous sex for the first time in recent memory. His account of what happened once they got their clothes off is somewhat artistically summarized. I’ve been convinced to write a…

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