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The Death of the Book Shelf

(A short post today as I’m up to my ears revising An Unsafe Pair of Hands which is due out early next month.) One of the biggest ramifications of the rise of ebooks and online retailing is the demise...

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Thanks, Anne McCaffrey, and Genre Boundaries

Anne McCaffrey’s death, and all the reminiscences and tributes offered in her memory, intersected with what-I-am-thankful-for. Many people, writers and readers both, have described the ways they are...

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A Genealogy of Speculative Fiction

As speculative fiction writers, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Whatever genre we write, there is an illustrious lineage of other writers who are mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles of the genre....

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Covers: Trends in Cover Design

Trends in book cover design can be looked at on at least two major levels: traditional trends (which I’ll call genre signals) and current trends, which are much more ephemeral. Genre signals have been...

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