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(For your reading pleasure, the second chapter of At The Queen’s Command) Chapter Two April 27, 1763 Temperance Bay, Mystria Owen Strake disembarked from the Coronet once the longboats had pulled it to the dock. His papers had been sent ahead with the Harbormaster, bound for Her Majesty’s Military headquarters. The Prince’s Life Guards had […]

Full Disclosure Note: I own ten (10) shares of Starbucks stock. On October 20th, 2010 Starbucks rolled out the Starbucks Digital Network. The link goes to their press release. The network was developed in conjunction with Yahoo. Via the free Wifi in company owned stores, Starbucks is providing premium content which one can only get […]

The only problem with working for yourself—aside from having a tyrant as a boss and a lazy workforce to tyrannize—is that everything which has to be done is something you have to do. Between traveling and working and all that living stuff—eating, sleeping, bathing and chores—a variety of other things fall by the wayside. So, […]

A Wall Street Journal article titled Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books caught my eye. It covers the impact of the ebook revolution on the income and lifestyle of literary authors. The basic premise is that because ebooks sell for lower prices, publishers are offering literary writers lower advances. This, then, threatens the world […]

I just visited Project Gutenberg looking for books from the American Colonial period and just beyond. The other day I’d found and downloaded an encyclopedia of “useful information” published in 1889, which had fascinating stuff in it. One article, for example, reflected the scientific thought of the day about the origin of oil—and did so […]

Aaron Allston and I will be teaching an expanded track of Inner Circle Writer Workshop Classes at DragonCon over the Labor Day weekend. Last year was our first year. Our program was so successful, they’ve had to move us to a larger venue. (We’ll have enough chairs this year—without raiding other rooms.) You can either […]

I knew it would happen. It had to happen. There is money to be made and whenever there is money to be made, people will rise up to make it. I don’t, in this instance, refer to hardworking authors, but the parasites who are looking to make a fast buck by making low-rent investments in […]