Went to House on the Rock today. First time I’d been back since… Well, longer than I care to remember. Some particular scenes still stood out in my mind and others I had forgotten. Here is a smattering of pictures I took from today’s jaunt.
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Musings and Opinions
Invisible Readers, Tricks of Perception, and Not Selling
The internet is a tricky place. To me, it’s very much like a sorcerer’s castle filled with echo chambers and mirrors like the kind you’d find in a Robert E. Howard novel. Those who live in the castle often forget that the vast majority of folks out there aren’t in that keep as often as […]
Criticism Begins With A “C.” For Conversation.
There has been a lot of criticism aimed at the SFWA Bulletin in recent weeks that has now resulted in a task force. Laura Anne Gilman summarizes the issue on her blog and Jim C. Hines has a link list of the commentary. My take on this entire situation is very simple: criticism provides an […]
Soap, Old Dirt, and Mud
If you were to lean in, very closely, you will hear a deadly rattle as a few manuscripts emerge through a final round of revisions and proof corrections. Feels like I’ve shaped a cyber-golem out of nanite-mud and clay, and we’re about to release it into the wilds. As I emerge through this, though, I’ve […]
Perspectives Past and Present
I’m diving into alternate history storytelling for a magical world I took four years to build. Some of this has roots in world history and the way society evolved (or didn’t) in certain contexts. I’m taking the approach that to truly represent the scope of the story, I cannot just write one type of character […]