26 Jul 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
In this week’s installment I discuss the “Hidden History of Science Fiction” and ask if this history has any value for science fiction fans. Head over to SF Signal, check it out, and leave a comment there with your thoughts on the subject.
25 Jul 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Last week I was among several folks who participated in the most recent SF Signal podcast. The topic was a kind of recap of Readercon from those who had attended. Several of the SF Signal “irregulars”–myself included–were at Readercon and give our thoughts on the convention. Others in the podcast include: John Ginsberg-Stevens Jeff Patterson…
18 Jul 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta, Travel
I am part of the group of panelists for the latest episode of the SF Signal Podcast, talking about our experiences at science fiction and fantasy conventions. It is a well-timed podcast. We recorded it the day before Readercon and it is now available, the day after Readercon. In this one, I tell the story…
13 Jul 2011 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
A few weeks ago, I posted an open discussion on my blog stats, in which I discussed my blog stats for the first half of the year in some detail. I’d set a goal to increase the views on my blog and I was doing a good job. In the weeks since that post, I’ve…
06 Jul 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I’m back from our long weekend getaway. I’m working from home this morning because the Little Man is off this week. I have the morning shift, and Kelly has the afternoon. I have a lot of meetings at the day job this afternoon, followed by the Arlington Writers Group this evening. And some writing and…
01 Jul 2011 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
So if you have been following along in the last 24 hours, you’ll know that this site was down for most of yesterday. It went down just before 11am. As of 2:30am EDT on July 1, the site is back up and by my estimates, 99.9% restored. The specifics of what happened are not completely…
29 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta, Writing & Publishing
I’ll be out of town for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. My access to the Interwebs may be limited. In order that you don’t feel neglected here, however, I am preparing a series of posts on writing. There will be four posts covering my thoughts on some of the basic areas of writing short…
28 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
In this week’s column, “Conversations with Dead Science Fiction Writers“, I list some of those writers I never got to meet, and what I would like to talk with them about today, if I could. Head over to SF Signal and check it out.
23 Jun 2011 » 7 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Last year, I made it one of my goals to triple the average daily traffic on my blog. I had a pretty good set of objectives for achieving this. By the end of 2011, I wanted to be averaging three times as many views as I was at the end of 2011. What I didn’t…
20 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
In SF Signal‘s podcast #59, a number of panelists, including me, are asked the question: “What science fiction series deserves the HBO 10-episode-per-book treatment?” There are so many interesting answers that I am going to have to listen to the podcast, despite having been in it myself. There wasn’t time for me to jot down…
17 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Sometime in the last two or three months, this blog passed a milestone: 1 million words of content. I hadn’t checked on these stats in a long time, but I did so today, out of curiosity, and I found that, not counting this post you are reading now, there are 1,077,931 words worth of posts.…
14 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
In this week’s column, I talk about “Con(ventional) Warfare” and ask the question: what is it that makes science fiction fans so passionate about their genre? Head over to SF Signal to check it out. And be sure to leave your opinion and thoughts in the comments.