Recent Posts Tagged With 'Rant'

• Commission vs. Submission

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 09:44 in Rant, snow, thoughts on writing, the business, flashes in the dark

  No school today (yippee!). More below.I'm a geek for word origins (etymology). In follow up to yesterday's post, I started thinking about the words commission and submission. As a writer, I've had exactly one commission. It was nice, my highest pe...

• The Power of the Interweb

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 08:55 in Rant, interweb, thoughts on writing, the business

  Every time something like the brouhaha over the pay rate at Black Matrix Publishing rears its ugly mug, I'm reminded of the power of the InterwebTM. (for a nice POV on said brouhaha, check out L.R. Bonehill's blog)John Scalzi brought the fight to Bla...

• A Little Light in a Dark Room

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 09:06 in Rant, thoughts on writing, publishing industry

  This is what I've learned:1. Most of my "readers" are also writers. The situation will likely remain this way until "big commercial success".2. "Big commercial success" isn't what I thought it was. Like the proverbial kid who dreams of NBA millions, ...

• I\'ve Been Violated (and so have many others)

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 20:50 in Rant, flashes in the dark, shock totem, richard ridyard, angel zapata

  So there's a plagiarist afoot who calls himself Richard Ridyard. It seems Tricky Dick tried to pull the proverbial wool over some eyes at Shock Totem by subbing a little changed version of Stephen King's "The Boogeyman".Um, Dick? Here's a clue: the e...

• The Sacking of the Public Domain

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 10:03 in Rant, public domain, zombies, h.g. wells, kim paffenroth

  I've not read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; I barely read the book without zombies. I laughed at the trailer for Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Carrie Harris posted a link on her blog today). Other titles from the public domain that have ...

• In Praise of the Gatekeepers

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 10:21 in Rant, thoughts on writing

  Ah, the Gatekeepers, those individuals that by talent, luck, money, or some other mystical power are the arbiters of what the public reads, sees, or listens to. They keep the standards high enough, and artists (writers, dramatists, actors, musicians...

• An Open Letter to Mr. Professional Writer

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 01:51 in Rant

  Dear Mr. Professional Writer,I understand how you believe all those amateur hacks are ruining the genre. Really, I do. They can't write their way out of the proverbial wet sack. (funny how most sacks are plastic now, isn't it? kind of ruins the image...