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Shooting War

October 20, 2008

Shooting War: The New Graphic Novel (trailer) from SMITHmag on Vimeo. Sphere: Related Content

The two best things I saw this week

October 11, 2008

Saw this at Andrew Sullivan’s joint yesterday… a video called “My Dogs greeting me after returning from 14 months in Iraq.” It’s beautiful: Number two? I’ve been reading THE NIGHT GARDENER, by George Pelecanos, effectively popping my Pelecanos cherry. It’s early still — I’m in chapter six — but he absolutely lives up to his [...]

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Free stuff from Tor Books

September 19, 2008

Got this in the e-mail box on Wednesday: Free Ebooks from World Fantasy Award Finalists Last week we announced the return of free ebooks from Tor.com. We’re kicking things off this week with backlist titles from two of the authors who are finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. To download these [...]

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A few days late, but here it is anyway

August 1, 2008

Harry Potter fans are all over this right now… but for the rest of us who love the series (but don’t LOVE the series), Amazon’s got an exclusive Collector’s Edition of J. K. Rowling’s TALES OF THE BEEDLE BARD (due December 4, 2008). At a hundred bucks it’s a little on the pricey side, but [...]

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J. A. Konrath finally pulls the trigger

July 11, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve written about writing. Books, too, for that matter. I won’t get into the reasons why1, but now’s a good time to shake the disease: J. A. Konrath released another free e-book. This time around he’s compiled nearly every article and blog post he’s ever written about writing, publishing, and [...]

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