This story from Laptop is about a debut Fantasy novelist who wrote 100,000 words of his novel on a smart phone. I admire his conviction, but no way could I do that! With today’s netbooks, I would not even think… Read More »Novel Written on a Smart Phone
I just got my June issue of Linux Journal and inside, among other cool things, is the 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards. I look forward to this issue every year, because it’s a great indicator as to what people are using… Read More »LJ Readers' Choice Awards
In designing the Writer’s Edtion of Null_Pointer, I decided to do something fun for the cover. In order to honor the hard work of my graphic designer brother, I decided to keep his covers. However, I wanted something that would… Read More »Writer's Edition Covers
This weekend I’ve been trying to put together the bits and pieces of the Null_Pointer Writer’s Edition ebook. I have decided to use the epub format as that is becoming a standard. The next step was either learning how to… Read More »Creating the Writer's Edition of NP
As my mystery novel, Null_Pointer gets closer to release, I’ve been putting together a Writer’s Edition of the book. This ebook only version will be packed with all kinds of interesting extras that writers love to read. Here is the… Read More »Contents of Writer's Edition
Not to be outdone by the pro’s, here is a bad guy starfighter from my novel Starstrikers. The Votainion Terror Diver. I especially like the decals on this fine line art from an artist that wishes to remain safely anonymous.… Read More »Terror Diver
If you are a SF fan like me and love you some spaceship designs, then you should be following the Concept Ships blog. This week they have an audio interview with Russell Chang, Illustrator for the Clone Wars TV Series. … Read More »Concept Ships Interview
Have you ever been to my favorite independent bookstore, Rediscovered Bookshop? Really? Cool. It’s awesome-sauce, right? So, have you been to their blog? What, you say, they have a blog? They most certainly do. All the employees at the bookshop… Read More »Rediscovered Blog
I’m kinda behind on this one, but it still deserves attention from programmers. XKCD rocks!
This comic from the O’Reilly web site is definitely worth following. Good stuff.