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Autocorrect
I’m usually amused when Autocorrect mangles my perfectly intelligible text into something I didn’t intend. It’s funny, mostly. But now Autocorrect (as embodied in Amazon’s search algorithms) is giving me heartburn. Here’s the issue: my novel WITCHY EYE is coming … Continue reading
Symbolic Transgressions
[Sabbatai Sevi’s] transgressions, which formed so characteristic a part of his behavior, did not become a “normal” pattern. Their significance was purely symbolic. They were indicative of some special, exalted condition of the soul. —Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, Gershom … Continue reading
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Tagged Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, Shamanism, Taboos, Witchy Eye, Yoga
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Witchy Eye: Clerics and Magic-Users
Here’s another follow-up note from that Salt Lake Comic Con panel on writing and roleplaying authentic magicians. Games tend to put spellcasters whose abilities derive from gods into one bucket, and other spellcasters into a different bucket. Clerics vs. magic-users … Continue reading
Witchy Eye: Himmelsbriefe
At Salt Lake Comic Con this year, one of my favorite panels was on writing and roleplaying authentic magicians; fellow panelists included Paul Draper, Kevin Nielsen, Charlie Pulsipher, and others. The conversation ranged to interesting places, but I want to … Continue reading
Bookshelf: 1632
I’m late to the party on this one. For sure, better late than never. In the middle of a wedding, the small West Virginia mining town of Grantville is suddenly, without explanation, and apparently permanently transported into Germany in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1632, Baen, Eric Flint, Richelieu, Thirty Years War, Wallenstein, Witchy Eye
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The Perfect Word
I love finding and using in a story that perfect word, the one tiny word that communicates more than it seems. Let me give you an example from WITCHY EYE, my forthcoming epic fantasy (Baen, March 2017). From a confrontation between … Continue reading
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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A Soldier’s Memories
“I have been deceived,” Bill whispered. “I thought the Dutch were great churchgoers.” “Oh, yes?” “Yes. I held the wall in Mobile with a crusty old Dutch sergeant named Harmonszoon. He named his gun Old Mortality, and he sat up … Continue reading
On the Place d’Armes
The statue around which all this sweating, exerting, exhorting humanity swarmed was colossal. Rising from a square marble platform, it depicted two mustachioed men on horseback, each armed with a long pistol. One horse reared as its rider sighted and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Jackson, Jean and Pierre Lafitte, New Orleans, Witchy Eye
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Support the Pacification of the Ohio
Serve Your Emperor… !! SUPPORT THE PACIFICATION OF THE OHIO !! ~ Join the Imperial Army Today ~ Dragoons : Musketeers : Grenadiers : Pikemen : Artillerymen Bonuses Paid for Friends Recruited
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Tagged Baen, Ohio, The Emperor Thomas Penn, The Pacification of the Ohio, Witchy Eye
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