Monthly Archives: March 2015

Seattle, Here I Come!

I’ll be at Emerald City Comicon this weekend, with the Wordfire Press team.  Look for me on a panel about Steampunk on Saturday, and all three days at the Wordfire both in the dealer room.

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Why Should You Read Crecheling?

Because Elon Musk and Steven Wozniak BOTH think it’s our future.

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The First Requisite

“[I]gnorance is the first requisite of the historian — ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.” — Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians

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Positioning Your Fiction

“It’s the basic question you must always know how to answer: What are we offering customers, why is it better than the other options available to them, and how will we make money from it?” — Ram Charan, Know-How

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Myth and Cult in Native America

Astronomer-mythologist John Lundwall shares Native American tales that tie into initiation ritual, astronomy, and storytelling.

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Utah Geek Profile

Utah Geek Magazine Issue 4 is available now.  Download it here now in .pdf, and turn to page 13 to check out UGeek’s profile of me, from my chat with them at Life, the Universe, and Everything in February:

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I Favor Adventure Stories

Life is an adventure. Stories are how we orient ourselves. The only alternative to reading adventure stories is to be lost.

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One Day Late

Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Emily celebrated this on time with a fast and an interfaith service, but I was under a deadline, so I forced the kids to dilute their video games and Netflix watching with some reading and … Continue reading

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Retreat to the House on the Hill I

I just finished an experiment. A few years ago, several writer friends and I went to a remote cabin in southern Utah (remote in the sense in which all of Boulder, Utah is remote) and wrote.  We were all quite … Continue reading

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Pensacon Report Out

Last weekend I went to Pensacon, in Pensacola, Florida.  This was exciting for me, because it was my first outing as a Wordfire Press author, with the WFP team and at the WFP table. The team was Kevin J. Anderson, … Continue reading

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