Marigolds

November 7, 2011

  The weekend featured Albuquerque’s annual Day of the Dead Parade— though, since it took place several days after the actual Day of the Dead, it was called the Marigold Parade (marigolds, for those of you not into the worship of Mictecacihuatl, are believed to attract spirits). The local community center was full of ofrendas, […]

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Come Naked

November 5, 2011

The following are alleged to be actual answers found on the official Australian tourist web site.  Even if that’s not true, they’re still pretty amusing. Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ). A: We import all plants […]

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Big Joe

November 4, 2011

So . . . who invented rock and roll? My money’s on this guy. Not only did he record “Roll ‘Em Pete”, the first song with a backbeat, in 1938, but he mastered a whole series of musical genres.  Blues, jump blues, R&B, jazz, big band swing, and finally rock and roll. In addition to […]

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Spacetime Rip

November 4, 2011

The Europeans, I am delighted to report, are planning on punching a hole in spacetime. (Into which, my cynicism tempts me to add, they will throw billions in their soon-to-be-worthless currency.) The combined power of 10 separate lasers would be focused down to a very small volume, creating conditions more extreme than in the center […]

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Wild Cards in Film

October 28, 2011

  Universal has just acquired the Wild Card books! Universal is a major studio without a superhero franchise . . . till now.

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WFC

October 27, 2011

When I tell my friends I’m off to the World Fantasy Convention, they always think I’ll be attending a more exotic sort of event than it actually is. When I explain that it’s a gathering of writers, artists, and editors, they sort of furrow their brows and say, “What the hell kind of fantasy is […]

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Royalties

October 26, 2011

Three major publishers have announced that they’re going to make sales data available to their authors.   I mean, like, wow. Those of you unconnected with the arcane world of publishing may have assumed that sales data was always available to authors.  I mean, why wouldn’t it be? Because publishers stood to make millions by not […]

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The Way We Are Now

October 25, 2011

The Association of American Publishers released figures for last June, showing that sales of adult trade paperbacks were down by no less than 63.8%.  (And my latest book was released in trade format!  My joy is unconfined.) Adult hardcover sales were down by 25.4%, and mass market paperbacks by only 21.6%. Revenues from ebooks were […]

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Super-Entities

October 24, 2011

So . . . who owns the world economy?  Some systems analyst guys in Zurich (I suspect actual gnomes) have analyzed what they call “the network of corporate control.” (Please note that economists didn’t even think of doing anything like this.) As the New Scientist comments: From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies […]

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Got It Live If You Want It!

October 19, 2011

The new ebook of Voice of the Whirlwind is now available for Kindle, Nook, and via Smashwords. Pretty awesome cover, neh? Elsewhere in ebook news, Hardwired, The Crown Jewels, Days of Atonement, and Rock of Ages should now be available in the Apple store, as well as Diesel and Scrollmotion. If they’re not yet available […]

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