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Downs And Ups

So last night, I went and killed this entire website. Without having any kind of backups available. To make my predicament clear: there are movie reviews going back to 1999 on this site, blog entries spanning a dozen years, and a few hundred posts all-in, not to mention some 50 pages, and a painstakingly configured […]

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Mashup Pop Quiz – With A Prize!

To celebrate the appearance of my science fiction story Mashup on Daily Science Fiction, I’m giving out a great prize for the correct answer to this pop quiz question. At some point in Mashup, David meets a girl, discovers that her name is Sarah, and thinks, “Of course it is.” The pop quiz question is: who plays the male lead in […]

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Cloud Writing

We’re living in the future… Springsteen got it right on his Magic album. We are living in the future. Case in point: the proof is no longer in the pudding, but in the cloud, or rather, the Cloud. In preparation for the 10th Villa Diodati Writers Workshop, 21-24 April in Southern England, all participants are […]

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Heinlein Rules

Sale! A hugely disloyal member of the marvellous online writers group Codex, when I was still fairly active there I participated in the 2005 Halloween contest. The contest challenge that year was to write a Halloween story based on a ‘seed’, something to prod the muse, provided by another participant. Seeds could be anything from […]

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Read My Stories, Make A Buck

Good news! I’m featured author on AnthologyBuilder this month! AnthologyBuilder—the brainchild of talented writer/editor Nancy Fulda—is the first and best custom anthology website out there. Just select the stories you want from the giant database of short stories and novelettes, and just like that, a professionally printed and bound anthology will be delivered to your […]

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Into The Cloud: 10/10 for Google, -1,000/10 for Microsoft!

The whole point of a smartphone, it always seemed to me, is to have a single point of truth. One calendar, one contact list. No double data entry, no errors, no confusion. For years, I used a Windows Mobile-based device (currently a HTC Touch diamond), and used Microsoft’s ActiveSync application to sync the phone with Outlook […]

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Scrivener for Windows: Bliss for Writers

Steve Jobs must be bummed out this week; his sales figures must have plummeted since Monday. On that day, the Windows version of Scrivener was released (be it only in public beta), and so hundreds of thousands of writers world-wide no longer face the agonizing choice of either buying a Mac or plodding on without […]

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Free Of Charge: Dumb Son

Grab your chance! I am the Featured Author on Sniplits this week, which means that my story Dumb son is available free of charge on their website. Download it now, and take advantage of your only opportunity ever to get this story for free. Added advantage: it’s the audio version, so you can upload it […]

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Complete Works

AnthologyBuilder mastermind and editor Nancy Fulda informed me last night that Dumb Son was accepted for inclusion in the AnthologyBuilder database. Which means that as of last night, the complete collection of all my published stories is available for compilation into a collection. Details are on the Publications page on my site…

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I Want To Live In South-Korea

It’s not a new thought that we’re living in the age of science fiction. But there’s a huge gap between knowing this and reading about it in a feature article in our newspaper. The piece–fronted by an artist’s impression of a city of giant green cat scratching poles–describes the wild pipe dreams of Dutch architect […]

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