Oh, Boston
I love Copley Square. There was a summer, forever tinged with nostalgia, where a friend was taking a class near there, and the rest of us spent a few hours once a week rambling around the area waiting for her … Continue reading
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Let’s Bust Some Bookselling and Publishing Myths
Last week, Salon ran an article by Hugh Howey (author of Wool) about how self-publishing is the future and the way new writers should turn. I don’t entirely agree with that, as most of you who’ve been playing along at … Continue reading
Google Glass, Privacy and Willful Misunderstanding
I’ve seen links to this Verge article going around, including one heavily quoted section of the piece: At one point during my time with Glass, we all went out to navigate to a nearby Starbucks — the camera crew I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged consent, google glass, oh come the fuck on, privacy
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On “Just Ask Them To Stop”
Here is a reaction I see all the time when someone complains about harassing behavior, or behavior that makes a person uncomfortable: “Why don’t you ask the person doing it to stop?” or “How do they know there’s a problem … Continue reading
This is Rape Culture
Rawstory — CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists You guys, I just can’t even, right now. Go read that link. CNN’s Candy Crowley, on reporting the guilty verdicts in the Steubenville rape case, bemoaned the … Continue reading
Be Professional
Last night I followed a twitter hashtag hosted by editors and agents who were answering writers’ questions. It was going well — good questions, enthusiastic participation. Then I saw That Guy slip into the conversation. The one whose twitter … Continue reading
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State of the Things, February 2013
Hello, February. Hello, cold weather. Hello, new trip around the sun. A couple of quick updates on writerly things: I’m moving Gavrick’s off the sidebar. Tabling it for now while I focus on The Fire Children, which has gone from … Continue reading
Tell Me What Does It Mean
’13… I did a lot in 2012. I’m not great at setting goals, really, but my “resolution” last year was to make it “the year I give myself a break, and the year I demand more from myself.” Not sure … Continue reading
On Self-Publishing Packages: Intro
Some days I feel like a broken record. Or a line from Needful Things (“You’ve been here before.”) Or maybe I’m a Cylon: All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again. Today the news is about … Continue reading
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Tagged beware, books, bookselling, self-publishing, writing
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There’s Room for Everyone in the Nerd House
Yesterday was apparently some weird sort of internet Groundhog Day, since I must have shouted “HOW ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS?” at my monitor three or four times. I was going to froth about a terrible New York Times … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, geekery
Tagged cons, cosplay, feminism, this is why we can't have nice things
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