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Tribes
I am reading (and enjoying the hell out of) Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues. That book and its arguments are much bigger than this tiny blog post, but a minor point in the book (the alleged fragmentation of modern, that is … Continue reading
Why Writing Is Awesome
Writing is hard. You work alone in a closet, you struggle with doubt and fear, and then when you produce a book, no matter how good it is, someone feels obligated and entitled to beat you up for it. And … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Phoenix Rising
Ryk Spoor’s PHOENIX RISING is book one in a straight-up, classic fantasy trilogy. This is an adventure story for people who like fantasy role-playing with lots of the familiar stuff — elves, dwarfs, ogres, ancient prophecies, lost homelands, unassailable coasts, … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Phoenix Rising, R.A. Salvatore, Ryk Spoor, Terry Brooks
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Witchy Eye: The First Map
I just dug this out of a box today. As epic fantasy novels are wont to do, WITCHY EYE started with a map. My son was being homeschooled at the time and his curriculum included this folding, laminated … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Dwarfs, Elves, Epic Fantasy, Home Schooling, Toni Weisskopf, Trolls, Witchy Eye
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Cap and Ball
This last Sunday I was in Denver and my friend Mario offered to take me shooting. He was too kind to say this, but I think he’d read some of my stories with cap and ball pistols in them (THE … Continue reading
Mailing List!
So I want to ramp up my mailing list. This comes from my being really dissatisfied with social media as a way of sharing information. Facebook, in particular, monkeys around with my feed and your feed, and I hate it. … Continue reading
The Enemies of Our Enemies, Quack
HeroQuest with the kids last night. On the north side of the tula, where nothing ever happens, we adventurers met Rictus Piercefeather, servant of Hueymakt, and Fauna Pintail, acolyte of the Earth Mother. Ducks. Carrying a clutch of seven eggs. … Continue reading
Fill Yourself with Substance
I’m a big proponent of self-driven learning. For a writer, I think that’s essential. So here are some of the non-fiction books I’ve read in the last couple of months. Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. I had never heard of Gottfried … Continue reading
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Tagged A History of Venice, Amihai Mazar, Archaeology, Astronomy, Azazal, Byzantium, Cancer, Capricorn, Isaac Newton, Israel Finkelstein, John Julius Norwich, Leibniz, Leviticus, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Neal Stephenson, Richard Allen, Star Names, The Bible, The Quest for the Historical Israel, Venice
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We Gotta Have Stories
Stories orient us to the universe and to other people, and without them we’re adrift. I know not everyone likes the idea of a Western Canon, or a canon at all, but a set of texts we all know and … Continue reading
New Moon Report
Took the kids out last night. We drove out west of Delta, into a big valley flat as a skillet, and parked in a gravel lot beside the highway. In the two hours and more we were there, I think … Continue reading
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