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Planned books:
- Dinosaur Wars: Earthfall by Thomas Hopp
Current books:
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11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
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John Carter of Mars Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent books:
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
- The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain
- Matter (Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Useful Hashtags for Writers: Now with more linkage!
You’ve started to Follow the writers and blogs you like. You’ve managed to get beyond the ”Sitting here tweeting. What’s the fuss?” tweet. Now you’re looking at some of the posts, trying to find a way to grow your social media circle and see those funny little codes appended to the end of Wil Wheaton‘s and Neil Gaiman‘s tweets. So, a couple notes on Hashtags: First, hashtags are unofficial and unsupported by Twitter. You can start using anything as a …
Yeah, It’s Like That: Writers vs. Marketers
Check out the newest Penny Arcade, both the comic and the blog, in which Tycho gets his rant on about the destruction of language at the hands of marketers: In twenty years, I wonder if we’ll have any language left that isn’t based on flavor or texture, if it will be possible to describe any object, event, or emotion without the use of delicious terms like flaky or moist. Thanks Guys.
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