ecently, John Scalzi announced a new first-person shooter game that he is involved with. I’m not a big gamer, but I’ve played my fair share of first person shooters. The original Call of Duty was my game of choice many years ago. I was always impressed with the details of the surrounding world, how you…
hen I was a school-aged kid, I had to write book reports. I can’t remember how far back my book report-writing went and, alas, I don’t remember the first book for which I had to write a book report. It seems to me, however, that the book report had one primary value and one secondary…
ust a quick note to let folks know that my latest book review column for InterGalactic Medicine Show is now online. In this month’s column I review two great books: The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick; and Apollo’s Outcasts by Allen Steele. If you are interested to find out what I thought of these…
ast night while dozing off, I was thinking about the stories I’ve sold this year and the momentum that I’ve built up, and worrying a little that I’d be able to maintain that momentum next year. Another great science fiction writer, Brad Torgersen, has pointed out that you can’t really set a goal to sell…
spend a lot of time in these tips demonstrating tips and tricks for going paperless, and how it saves me time. One of the side-effects of being paperless, of course, is not having to carry around any paper. This lightens the load quite a bit–at least it did for me. Without paper, I recently discovered…
will be on vacation for the second half of the month but I just wanted to make folks aware that, with one exception, the Going Paperless tip posts will continue uninterrupted. I decided to skip the post for Christmas Day, figuring folks would have other things to do. With that in mind, here is what…
just discovered this review of  my story “Lost and Found” over at Diabolical Plots. The story appeared in October in Daily Science Fiction. It is always nice to see a good review and this is what Frank Dutkiewicz of DP had to say about my story: This was very well written. It took a while to get…
ear Jamie, I know what you’re thinking. This is either something you are imagining, or a prank that Dan or Rich is playing on you. But let me assure you this is no prank. It is really me–that is, you, twenty years in the future–writing you now as you begin to write stories that…
y oh my, I have suddenly been invited to a slew of Google Plus communities. Here is just a quick reference point and note to indicate that if I don’t accept the invitation to your community, please don’t take it personally. I give myself about an hour or so each day to keep up with…
e generally have a live Christmas tree each year. Indeed, last year, we cut down our tree ourselves, which was very cool. This year, however, since we will be on vacation, we decided to forgo the live tree. My friend Casey provided us with his old “fake” tree last year. We originally intended to have…