“Jump gestures” for e-books

So in thinking about more use cases for traditional books and e-books, I came up with one that would be incredibly useful to have in e-book readers. I’ll use the Kindle App as an example, since that is where I do 97% of my e-book reading. Let’s say you are reading, oh, I don’t know, [...]

Lost on the science fiction landscape

In this week’s Wayward Time Traveler column over at SF Signal, I discuss being lost on the vast science fiction landscape. So much to read and so little time. How best do you fill those gaps that you’ve missed over the years? Head on over to SF Signal to check out the column.

Do you like novellas?

This week over at SF Signal, my latest Wayward Time-Traveler column discusses, “De Stella Novella,” seven or eight great science fiction novellas spread across the last 70 years or so. And also, why I think novellas are more powerful than other types of short fiction. Head on over there to check it out.

Transcript of my #sffwrtcht from last night

Last night I participated in my first Twitter chat, talking with Bryan Thomas Schmidt and others about writing, science fiction, and the Golden Age as part of the #sffwrtcht. It was a lot of fun and a lot of typing to keep up! Bryan has posted a  transcript of last night’s chat for anyone interested [...]

Top posts in 2011

Here are the 10 most popular posts on the blog in 2011, ordered from most-popular to least-popular. Dr. Who is stalking me Going iPad, Part 2 of 5: Writing on the iPad with Scrivener and SimpleNote How Evernote has helped me go paperless (a status update) Managing my writing life with Evernote Going iPad, Part [...]

A blogging milestone

On the last day of 2010, I watched with baited breath as my blog stats for the year approached 5,000 visits for the year. I’d switched to WordPress in February 2010 and my blogging trailed off over the summer, but it had picked up again in the fall and I was desperately hoping for that [...]

Goals for 2012: Blogging

I had a surprisingly good year on the blogging front. Not only did I exceed my goal of tripling the visits to my blog, but my blogging lead to other interesting gigs, including a column at SF Signal, and two story sales to 40K Books. I’m not sure it would be realistic to think that [...]

Year in review – 2011: Blogging

If my fiction-writing in 2011 was something of a disappointment, my blogging turned out to be something of a surprise. In my goals for 2011, I made mention of only one item relating to blogging: Triple the traffic to my website by providing more relevant content, more frequently. This means more content about science fiction and [...]

My latest Wayward Time Traveler column is up at SF Signal

My last Wayward Time Traveler column for 2011 is now available over at SF Signal. In this week’s column, I point out that the Golden Age of science fiction isn’t always golden.  Head on over to SF Signal to check it out.

Rich-text blogging on the iPad

Prior to the most recent update to WordPress 3.3, I never had access to the rich-text editor when blogging on the iPad. Quite to my surprise this morning, when I went to write that last post, I discovered that the rich-text editor in WordPress now works on the iPad. This is a very big deal [...]

My latest Wayward Time Traveler column is up at SF Signal

In this week’s installment, I name names, discussing some of the more interesting pseudonyms in science fiction over the last 70 years or so, and musing on the use of pseudonyms in science fiction today. Head on over to SF Signal to check it out.

Commenting on posts has been re-enabled (my bad)

Paul Weimer discovered (thankfully) that commenting was still turned off on all posts since my domain hosting change. That was an oversight on my part. I forgot to change the setting back after the move. I have re-enabled commenting on new posts and have gone back and turned commenting off on all of the posts [...]

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