For my birthday (next Monday) I will be giving myself a new ISP and a new blog design, incorporating ISBW into this site. I will do my damndest to make it as painless as possible on your end. I recommend NOW making sure your feeds are either via ITunes or feedburner, since the core feed more »
There’s one thing people don’t talk a lot about when it comes to storytelling: Layers.
I’m not talking the parfait/onion argument from Shrek. I mean that beginning writers often think that they have a Great Idea (™) when all they have is a layer. When I look at the stories that have entranced me lately, more »
UPDATE 4.22.2011 12:25pm
We are fully staffed with volunteers! Thank you all, really, for your time and your offers of time. I’m much more relaxed now!
M
“Well, I thought I could do it, but I don’t have the time, blahblah…”
You know the drill. This is the problem with DIY- sometimes you don’t realize more »
I’ve received one too many complaints that the Murverse App was not delivering content, and I am tired of complaining to the provider. I apologize profusely to you for asking you to pay money for something that didn’t work, and something I failed to deliver premium content for.
If you were a purchaser of the more »
In case you hadn’t heard, the third book in Scott Sigler’s very popular GFL series launches today! What started with The Rookie, and then went to The Starter, is continuing with The All Pro, and Sigler has kindly offered several discounts. If you use the code MUR you get a discount on the more »
I was interviewed in a brief Spotlight sidebar in Locus magazine this month, and the interview just hit their site! Check it out as I talk about I Should Be Writing, Escape Pod, and audio fiction. There’s also a very stern picture of me taken by JR Blackwell.
I’ve been a fan of Grant Baciocco, the brilliant mind behind The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and Throwing Toasters, for years. He has a new podcast now, a short history show called Did This Happen?
Grant has family-friendly humor down to a science, and his writing, voice acting, and audio more »
It’s April 1, so that means April Fool’s day, but it also means Scott Sigler is launching pre-orders for his THE ROOKIE sequel, THE STARTER. At noon EDT today, you can order your copy, BUT, if you use the order code “mur” then you get $3 off the book.
Not more »
Starship Sofa, the fantastic fiction audio podcast, is campaigning for a Hugo nomination for Best Fanzine. I’d link to a bunch of blogs discussing this, but Cheryl Morgan lists them nicely here, and Tobias Buckell has some good thoughts here.
I can hear the dinosaurs grumbling now. Or they more »
One common complaint occuring on Twitter lately is that authors will gush and gush over the new cover of their book and never say who was behind it. “Hey,” I think. “That’s just wrong and unfair.” And then I think, “Ooops, guilty.” I did the exact same thing with Playing For Keeps. So I wrote more »
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The Latest from I Should Be Writing- ISBW #231 – Jeff VanderMeer Interview February 8, 2012
- SNOWDEN February 6, 2012
- Scrivener review! February 3, 2012
- Fun website stuff February 1, 2012
- A different writing challenge January 31, 2012
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