Alright, it’s been a year, and I’m ready to break down the #Gamergate debacle. I shall attempt to do so, and then I shall await the flensing that comes when any blogger touches this, the internet’s third rail. Let me begin by saying this: I am a gamer. I like video games. I like board…
Month: April 2015
Marvel finally irks me, but it’s not in my geek.
I have a rule. I don’t watch TV shows about lawyers. I just don’t do it. Not that they aren’t perfectly good shows, most of the time. But…I am a lawyer. And the closest I have seen anyone come to showing what it’s really like to do my job is either Benched or Night Court, depending on the episode….
What the Hell Just Happened to Me? – the side effects of the Grant-Frog style.
So, as of today the Grant-Frog style has existed for an entire week. It has been one of the strangest weeks of my writing career. Let me start by saying this: the style started as a lark. Grant Riddell and I were getting drunk at the Norwescon Small Press party, having a good ol’ time,…
“On the Hugo Nominations,” or “Giving Zero Poops”
Guess what? There’s a lot of drama surrounding the Hugo nominations. At first glance, this seems like a big deal. After all, I’m a genre writer. This is kind of the award for us, it’s our Oscars, right? It’s all the recognition from peers that matters to us, to validate our writing. Not only that,…
Win a Kindle by Being A Terrible Writer: The Grant-Frog Style Guide
So, many times at cons, we authors are asked to read things and evaluate them. Most of the time the work needs polishing, but is pretty good. Occasionally, though, we get handed something that makes The Eye of Argon look like frickin’ Tolkein. But here’s what’s interesting: when we authors talk about it, the unintentional…