No Printer? No Problem!
Posted by admin on September 24, 2007
While waiting for John Scalzi’s Whatever to come back online, I was reaing through a few old posts and responses.
One thing struck me- When he mentioned that, even though he’s a successful writer, he doesn’t own a printer.
I am going through printer withdrawal pains here at Byzantine Central…Our printer works just fine, but cartridges cost $60 for a set and last, oh, about two weeks. We really need a printer with a high schooler: Although I am beginning to ask teachers if they’ll take electronic submissions, most just think I’m crazy…Which doesn’t endear me to the Teen.
Scalzi Does Make good points However. One, Most anybody who’s a professional publisher has to be on the internet in some form or another, which means they all have the capability to take electronic submissions. Also, once they have the submission, they have to get it into an electronic format to produce whatever they are going to produce anyway, so it only makes sense to submit it electronically the first time. An e-mailed submission can be instantly delivered, read and either accepted or rejected, and payment made through PayPal.
So why Print a submission anyway? And just who wants to work with a Luddite who will only accept printed submissions? Is this just another artificial way to create entry barriers an keep amateurs out of the loop? Make it hard to submit and they’ll just go away? Or is it, like double spaced Courier, part of the mystique of publishing?
, by William Gibson and am greatly enjoying it: better than All Tommorow’s Parties or Pattern Recognition. Gibson basically takes a stock cast of characters and plunks them down in today’s world, shouting “It’s here! It’s already here and we never noticed!” There’s a nice sense of outrage at the political scene, and a sense that we’ve given up too much to ever recover. Take a look, I think you’ll enjoy it.
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. Story-wise, it’s the same-old same-old, but the Wii’s control scheme is pretty cool. Although the developers added a few gimicky things and the aiming is a little rough around the edges, I always felt in control and that any problems I ha were my fault, not the controller’s. The combat seems closer and more brutal than in previous incarnations, but I’m really getting tired of the SAS missions: They’re the same faux stealth in every CoC and get old fast. The tank and driving levels are kinda fun, and I really like the charge placement, as cheesy as it is.
by Scott Edelstein. What Really attracted me was 
’s name in the package. I’ve been a fan of hers sine 
. Don’t want to say too much about this as it’ll end up on the Book Page, but so far it’s got loads of useful information, attractively packaged.
. At a retail price of $30, that’s a heck of a lot cheaper than MS Orifice.
