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The Guild (and a DVD gi...

I recently caught up on the available episodes of The Guild’s Season 4, the webseries about online gamers written/created by Felicia Day (if you don’t watch The Guild, you might remember her from Buffy, or Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, or one of many profiles online featuring savvy web-based business ladies). I have geeky tendencies, but I’ll admit that my gaming experience pretty much stops at watching my sister play, and yelling at her to fight or shoot the zombies. (Sadly,...
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Forward, Reverse or Ran...

How do you like to see stories unfold (either reading books or watching TV or movies)? Do you want to experience them straight forward from beginning to end? Or…do you prefer them told in flashback mode from say…three days out, like the movie The Hangover. Or do you like them told in random order like Premonition or episodes of Lost (ie, the flashbacks are not in sequential order). I love flashback stories in movies, if for nothing else, you’re trying to figure out how they got...
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Back from Armadillocon...

It was quite awesome and I will do a write-up when I get a chance. The flight back was not awesome.  About a minute into take off we hit turbulence.  The plane shook and dropped and then dropped some more.  It was like riding a rollercoaster, except at ten thousand feet in the air. It’s not the fear of death that gets me.  It’s the fear of plunging down to the ground, being aware that my kids are about to die.  What do I say?  Don’t be scared?  It will be okay?  It won’t...
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Covers...

I unveiled the U.S. and U.K. covers for Archangel’s Consort this week. Both are beautiful – and very different from each other. It got me to thinking about what makes a great cover – something that works brilliantly in one market might not necessarily be a hit in another. However, some things are universal I think. For me, a great cover has immediate visual impact and tells me something about the story.  What about you? What makes a cover really work for you? Any favorites? p.s....
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