Failing again. Failing better.
I stayed up waaaaaaaay too late last night watching the Rangers-Caps game, so I am very sleepy (and I didn’t even make it all the way through the third overtime, but since the Caps lost, that’s fine). And on top of that, I need to submit some critiques for my writing group before I go…
You may have missed the announcement yesterday, but “Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free.” Today, Tor UK made a similar announcement. First off, yes, I’m aware that smaller publishers like Night Shade Books,…
Two quick things for you today. First, although the Decemberists announced that they were going on hiatus, they also announced a double album. The Onion’s AV Club have the track listing. I’m a big fan of this band, and especially their latest album, The King is Dead, so I can’t wait to listen to this…
Over on Live Journal, Nick Mamatas (@nmamatas) wrote a short piece that strips away a lot of illusions about how your short story makes it from slush pile to published. Next time you receive a rejection letter and you start to take it personally, or attack the editor for being unbelievably stupid, remember that it’s…
John Scalzi has been a journalist, a paid blogger, an unpaid blogger, an author, and an editor; and he has written corporate pieces and newspaper and magazine columns, as well as fiction and non-fiction. I think that qualifies him to talk about writing, the writing life, and writers. You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take…